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10:29am March 10, 2012
nekobakaz: howtfoldlaundry: b-lynninja: The majority of the comments on this post are things like, “Why does it matter if the kid is autistic?” What I wanted to say to them but am putting here instead: Have none of you ever read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time? The main character is autistic (or has a spectrum condition) and counts his “good” and “bad” days based on how many of a certain color car he sees on his way to school. If he sees so many red cars, it’s a good day. If he sees so many yellow cars, it’s a bad day. Colors are stimuli for autistic people, and can help calm them. Blue might be a “good” color for the kid in the OP’s class. autistic kids smile for the same reason allistic people do. hate to burst your bubble. the cars-as-determinant thing sounds more like ocd than autism. Curious Incident is suppose to be written from an autistic viewpoint, but the writer is not autistic, so…. Yeah. It often seemed like it was cobbled together from things the author had heard about autism. But not always in a pattern that would actually exist in reality. And some elements were just wrong altogether. While others were fairly realistic.  As for the OP, autistic people like things (and people) often for the exact reasons that anyone else does. We aren’t an alien species that only ever likes things for strange and mysterious reasons.  It might not even have to do with the hair.  Although I personally like interesting hair colors (and have had dyed hair myself in the past). 

nekobakaz:

howtfoldlaundry:

b-lynninja:

The majority of the comments on this post are things like, “Why does it matter if the kid is autistic?”

What I wanted to say to them but am putting here instead:

Have none of you ever read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time? The main character is autistic (or has a spectrum condition) and counts his “good” and “bad” days based on how many of a certain color car he sees on his way to school. If he sees so many red cars, it’s a good day. If he sees so many yellow cars, it’s a bad day. Colors are stimuli for autistic people, and can help calm them. Blue might be a “good” color for the kid in the OP’s class.

autistic kids smile for the same reason allistic people do. hate to burst your bubble.

the cars-as-determinant thing sounds more like ocd than autism.

Curious Incident is suppose to be written from an autistic viewpoint, but the writer is not autistic, so….

Yeah. It often seemed like it was cobbled together from things the author had heard about autism. But not always in a pattern that would actually exist in reality. And some elements were just wrong altogether. While others were fairly realistic. 

As for the OP, autistic people like things (and people) often for the exact reasons that anyone else does. We aren’t an alien species that only ever likes things for strange and mysterious reasons.  It might not even have to do with the hair.  Although I personally like interesting hair colors (and have had dyed hair myself in the past).