Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

#Autism: There is an unhealthy and disasterous combination of rising awareness of the autism spectrum with two generations of snowflake and victim culture created by naive, neurotic, paranoid, and overpotective guilty-absent-mothers, making it worse.
Mine didnt’ have that luxury.

Yeah, I don’t get it either. For me it’s a superpower that happened to force me to work at socialization until I ‘got it’ despite that it was unpleasant and stressful. Late in life it’s really an amazing superpower.

I don’t get this movement. I tell people I’m on the spectrum or I’m an aspie. What’s the problem? Is it that HFA that are successful don’t complain, and that people who are less successful need more ‘cover’? I don’t understand.