ruennsheng;12647 said:
When autistic people are diagnosed with DSM-V, media will most likely focus on autistic people and deprive autistic individuals of hope and justice. Once labeled or even identified for possible autism-like behavior, autistic people will lose the passion to do the best they can, and just live in endless despair - because they aren't valued, just like their non-autistic counterparts who totally lose hope in what they're doing.
And some autistic people have it easy - they have the fortune to see that as long as they lead a mediocre, sheltered life, they can do what society merely expects them to do, without autism behavior. Ending up, they're a little bit more immature and a little bit less sensitive to others' plights than most Aspies. But like other autistic people, they'll still be targeted anyway in office politics.
Some autistic people, though, they'll lead another brand of torture - more intense than others - they just don't know what they're doing and in fact, limit themselves to the possibilities of a bleak after-autism world.
Given the opportunity, those who are concerned with autistic people's welfare as a whole, we all should try to learn to be Rupert Murdochs ourselves. We should dig out all secrets that we assume to be helpful. We should do all means to safeguard our interests by keeping tactics of NT ignorance close to our hearts, but at the same time, assault and dig out shocking revelations of anti-autism behavior in all ways, in all means possible. If we don't do it, we'll relegate ourselves to a less fulfilling life with zero achievement and good for ourselves. Then autistic people in or after our generation won't do what previous generations before autism has done - achievement in their fields as they are, not as an 'autistic person'.
So autistic people should change the way they see their diagnosis, not let their diagnosis limit the world in general.
