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I want you, the reader, for the length of this post, to ignore the "Holy Shit!" implications of "enabling Web browsing and telepathy" as a linked pair and instead let's just focus on Autism.
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I have always been different. I've always known that I was differwnt, too. But it took me much of my lifetime to gain insight into what made me different. At least part of the difference is Autism.
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I have always been different. I've always known that I was different, too. But it took me much of my lifetime to gain insight into what made me different. At least part of the difference is Autism.
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In retrospect it should not have been such a leap as it was. My mom's cousin Kathleen is autistic. I think that one of the things which slowed that connection down is the fact that Kathleen also has developmental slowdowns, while I definitely did not. Well, except in relation to emotional development, perhaps? But let's not digress too far just yet. I was identified as gifted early on and put into a gifted program. I was also booted out of that program the same year because, while I was doing extremely well in the program, I wasn't turning in any assignments in my "normal" classes. Really, I pretty much just didn't do any of them. No adult could (or would) adequately explain to me why I was being asked to do these assignments and I couldn't see any benefit to them, so I read ahead in my textbooks and brought other books to read as well. I'm not as bitter about it as it might sound. It's actually kind of amusing to me looking back. Adults were literally insulted and angry at my 8 year old self for expecting them to explain themselves to me and ignoring them when they refused. To me it was just logical, while to them I was basically being a little asshole. At any rate, knowing Kathleen was autistic I associated Autism with developmental delays, just as most people do.
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