Monday, January 6, 2014

Neurodiverse and neurotypical talking past each other?

I recently read the following:

http://marlowefranklin.blogspot.com/2014/01/discrimination-and-bigotry-against.html

Now, as a "neurodiverse" individual, I can understand where the parents are coming from. Having an ASD kid means, for many, physical abuse, screaming, property destruction, etc etc until the parent loses it and starts fantasizing about killing their kid. It may not be so much evil as mental illness induced by PTSD-type events.

But you know what? Aspies also suffer. We are bullied in school, bullied to the point where "normal" kids are routinely doing physical and even sexual harm to us. Furthermore, the only response the educational system has to this bullying is to reward the bullies and tell us that it's our fault we were bullied because we are "weak" and need to "toughen up". We are told that our symptoms aren't real, that we are only doing them because we're jerks who are constantly seeking what one of my teachers called "negative attention". We can't succeed in life, we're told, so we seek attention in "destructive" ways.

Furthermore, once we graduate school-IF we do-we can't find a job. Nobody will hire us because "nobody likes a debbie downer"-an outlook formed by years of bullying. We aren't "team players", and thus are unfit to hire. When we try to get SSI, we are told to "find a job you lazy bum!". Do you see the double bind here? We are constantly told that we could become NT if only we tried hard enough. Autism is a defect in brain wiring-we CAN'T just shed it like a snake sheds its skin. After 40 or 50 years of this, we become bitter and hateful. Many of us had mentally ill families who abused us.

Yes, some parents are abused by their ASD kids until they snap. But we are victims of abuse too. The system doesn't care about parents OR sufferers, we are only there to be abused by bureaucrats so they can get more funding, which never seems to reach the people who need it, having been diverted into the pockets of some manager somewhere.

I don't pretend to judge Kelli Stapleton, or any other parent of a special needs kid. Christianity says that only God Himself has the right to judge. I don't know if God exists, but if He does, we need to leave the judging to Him, and start talking TO each other, rather than PAST each other.

Our current system is set up to reward sociopaths and cull the "weak". Billionaires routinely talk of culling the population, which means they want 90% of us to die. I don't mind dying, but the desire to wipe out all but the sociopaths should be called what it is: Genocide.

Genocide isn't like in The Turner Diaries where the undesirables march meekly into the mountains, never to be heard from again. Genocide is mass graves and gas chambers and ovens emitting horrible smells. Genocide is your friends and their families being rounded up by stormtroopers and "vanishing".

The word "genocide" is tossed around a lot in the ND community, by people who should know better. A handful of desperate parents killing their kids, while abhorrent, is not genocide. Genocide is a system where the weak are abandoned and sent off to die, not by their families but by bureaucrats. When aspies are told to kill themselves and that nobody would care if they did, that's genocide. When families are cast aside to save money, that's genocide. When nobody will help the Kelli Stapletons of the world, then those same people celebrate when they snap, that's genocide.

It's not Kelli's fault that she was put on a merry go round until she snapped. It IS the fault of sociopathic politicians and their Wall Street friends who think that the only good commoner is a dead one. Parents and kids need to stop hating each other and start hating the REAL evil.

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