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The title of this post was inspired by a comment made by one of
the more militant members of an aspie forum, on what she thought of support groups: "If I want support, I'll go to the bra
department at Target."
I don't have a gripe with the concept of support groups in general.
They can be very helpful for cancer sufferers, crime victims, and others who are struggling to cope with traumatic misfortunes.
But I'd really like to know what asshole decided to set up support groups for autistics. I'm guessing it was one of
the politically correct dorks who insist on using person-first language and would never use the word "autistics." Here's
what I have to say to those shitheads-with-dorkiness: My personality is not a disease, and I wouldn't be caught dead at an
autism support group. Oh, and by the way, you are most cordially invited to plant a big ol' kiss on the keister of this
person with PDD, which stands for Pissed-off at Discriminatory Dumbasses.
Since when was group therapy an adequate substitute for civil rights?
Every day, in autism support groups, people are encouraged to yammer on about the misfortunes of their autism, which generally
consist of such things as not being able to get a job, or an apartment, or decent treatment at school because of their "condition."
The psychologists and social workers who run these groups make soothing sympathetic noises and offer advice along the lines
of how to make eye contact, how to stop stimming—in other words, how to pass for a non-autistic.
Just imagine if there were "femaleness support groups" where women
were taught to cope with employment discrimination and other "impairments" of their gender by learning to behave more like
men. Or "blackness support groups" where people of color were advised to deal with their "social problems" by learning
how to bleach their skin and how to sound white in a conversation.
This all goes to show the total disdain that psychologists have
for autistics, as well as the extent to which the psychs have warped their clients' view of the world and of themselves.
No one with a shred of self-respect would voluntarily seek out such degrading "support." Hell, even a lab rat probably
has a better opinion of itself.
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