Monday, November 15, 2010
Lili's reflective thought for the day
It is a sad and creepy thing to witness autistic people playing games of social exclusion, because these are people who know full-well what they are doing. Reasons or justifications can always be found, but it still looks ugly in my eyes. I know what a beautiful feeling it can be to be a member of an exclusive group; it is most seductive, but for me a seat that someone else should be sitting in never feels very comfortable.
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Please elaborate on this about what games autistics are playing. I am an aspie myself.
I was reflecting on events in the past, involving people in the offline world.
Funny thing that....how autistics learn to mimic the "bad habits" of NT's as well as the "good" .
I see the same kind of behavior in the people I work for with developmental disabilities who rank themselves and each other on how "disabled" they are and exclude those who are more "disabled" . I personal think, like racism, this is learned behavior and an unfortunate psychological remedy for any one who feels a need to boost their own sense of worth . So sad that we can't teach all children to value themselves so they don't need external reinforcement to feel "good enough" .
I'm not sure that this kind of behaviour is so complex or tricky that there is much to learn. I think it is just a fact that many autists have had hard lives right from the start, and hard lives often lead to hard attitudes. There's also the revenge of the nerds phenomenon.
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