Everyday all day it is a balance of abilities and deficits all combined with circumstances and environment. Because our minds diverge from the typical, our abilities are mis-understood and under-valued, and our differences are looked down upon because they seen as childish to most. That’s the hardest part of autism. Not the actual experience itself. But the way others, like you, think about us and respond to us like we are children that need encouragement. People don’t recognize the support we ask for as respectable.
I am seen as “lazy” and “crazy”, even by doctors. And half the time no one believes me anyway. We often have deficits BECAUSE of the lack of knowledge about our own differences. things that others can’t imagine and don’t even think of, but for us it is completely disabling.
- KM Wayner
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