I think everyone lives in their heads. Some types of autistic people a little less than most maybe. But there are ways out, they’re just incredibly hard. I am barely starting to make my way out of my own version of being trapped in my head, and I can mostly only do it for seconds at a time. But it makes me able to see how far there is to go. Everyone tells themselves stories, even people who are more sensory than idea based. And stepping out of those stories and taking even a brief look around is hard. Apparently the way forward from there is to learn to look at yourself and dig out the layers upon layers of stories and habits that keep you inside stories. But at the stage I’m at it’s hard to even know how accurate your self assessment is. So yeah. Difficult.

It was not too long ago that criminal tendencies were thought to be genetic and that criminals were sterilized along with non-anglo (espicially non european) so called “races,” people with cognitive or physical disabilities, etc.

You should also realize that the American Psychological Association was essentially founded by “insane asylum” superintendents. In other words, the people who invented autism were knee deep in this stuff.

Well, I don’t buy it anymore and anyone who does is vouching for a life of misery in my opinion.

Very well done.

I do not hate nts but they should take a long hard look at themselves .

And I do find stimming very beneficial; if they encouraged neurotypicals to do this in classrooms, there would be a whole lot less disciplinary problems…