Doesn't seem like a day goes by...

[matrixrefugee]

...Without some know-it-all celebrity trying to belittle the reality I have to deal with. First Michael Savage, now Denis Leary:

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b64077_denis_leary_tries_defuel_his_autism_fire.html

The bell is already rung, pal. Sure, you can argue context, but a cold reading of certain paragraphs are enough to make the blood boil in any high-functioning autistic person who has had the bad luck to hear about it, and in anyone who loves or cares for an autistic person. There are such things as late diagnoses, just as there are late diagnoses of other, more serious and even life-threatening conditions. I've heard of people being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in their early twenties, and the doctors initially thought it was asthma or chronic bronchitis. I have had two health-care professionals and a job coach with two autistic sons tell me it's Asperger's Syndrome. With an IQ of 135 on the Terman Index, I hardly qualify as "stupid" and in juggling work at a job I'm barely suited for, housework, and trying to get my stories published, I hardly qualify as "lazy" either. Try living with my brain in your skull for twenty-four hours; you'd shoot yourself over the sensory overload issues. For the longest time, my mother thought I was bipolar, but that's not the case since I'm not a risk-taker (hell, if I've been in a painful situation, my instinct is to avoid that situation in case it happens again) and I don't have the hallucinatory aspects either.

I suppose the uptick in cases of diabetes just means there's more picky eaters, or the uptick in asthma means the sufferers are just tantruming two year olds who hold their breath. How about cancer? The people with malignant teratomas eating into them are just attention sluts, by your standards. You're not funny, Mr. Leary, and that bad karma is going to come up and bite you in the keester someday.

Life is tough enough just living with this condition. And then I get mooncalves like this adding to it.

Which is why this woman gives me hope: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1128012

Comments

[nightofcydonia.livejournal.com]

That guy sounds a right prick. Unfortunatly it seems that a lot of people continue to refuse to believe that a problem exists unless someone with it is in a chair or has a service dog or something. Anything mental is dismissed as 'in your mind'. I've got it a couple of times because of my dyspraxia, although for the most part dyspraxics are left in peace, probably because we're less 'obvious' then autistics and the condition is less well known, although that creates its own problems of course. Hmm, would I be correct in thinking that this Mr Leary got the note book treatment?
~Weaver

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, he's in there all right...

[nightofcydonia.livejournal.com]

Going by your tone, I'm guessing that you were creative about it too *grin*
~Weaver

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Let's just say it involved two forms of cancer, an oyxgen tank with a leaky valve and a cigarette...