Comments | quoodlesong: Request to all: please read this site, all of it

quoodlesong

Request to all: please read this site, all of it

Sep 16, 2005 21:52

It will take you roughly an hour to finish (if you don't finish it you will be missing the point); it may require much more time to fully grasp the implications of it (I'm not sure I ever will).

Autism: Getting The Truth OutIf you read this message because you are on my Friendslist, and especially if you do not consider yourself autistic, I would ( Read more... )

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doubtingthomist September 17 2005, 21:48:23 UTC

It scares the heck out of me.

quoodlesong September 21 2005, 05:47:45 UTC

Regarding not the site iself, but what it makes me think of: it frustrates the heck out of me. (I know why it scares you though.)

Good to see you here. :)

anonymous September 18 2005, 03:00:33 UTC

quoodlesong September 22 2005, 01:13:22 UTC

[Forget what I said before; finally figured out a way to do this:]

tir_nan_og wrote:

I love that site- after finishing it, I felt better than I had with any therapist. I felt so bloody self-empowered. I admire [her] for doing it more than I can say- probably more than I could ever tell her.

Much the same here. Most of the people who commented about "courage" have no idea what the word means in this context.

I'm not sure what my reaction would have been if I had not realized who was behind it when I saw the first page. It's hard to imagine what it did to the neurotypical readers who say they were changed by it (in another sense it is even harder to imagine what is driving curebie readers to misconstrue its message).

erunion September 19 2005, 05:24:40 UTC

I don't know how or what to think, other than that I'm horribly uninformed. In light of that, I do believe that this was something I needed to read.

quoodlesong September 21 2005, 06:57:16 UTC

I believe so as well, and I'm glad you read it. I also hope you will continue to think about it.

The author has written (and may write more) replies to the guestbook comments; these may help clarify some points or make them more explicit.

As to being "horribly uninformed" - people say similar things to me quite often, and I am never quite sure what they mean. It could be they have never seen disability in a social and political context, as opposed to only an individual and medical one; I'm afraid it often means they believe I am placing a demand on them to know (or learn) how my particular disability "works". In fact I only demand this of people I have to rely on for practical matters; from others I only ask that my person and rights be respected. Educating them on the subject of disability politics is meant - among other and greater things - to prevent me from having to constantly explain what my rights are, and why I wish to be seen as a person (instead of, for instance, someone's "charity project", as is apt to happen in a ( ... )