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8:46am April 2, 2013

➸ Gry Blogs.: To be clear When I received my diagnosis, at the time, there was no...

blackjackgabbiani:

gryblogs:

To be clear

When I received my diagnosis, at the time, there was no stigma against autism.

There were no organizations comparing autism to potentially fatal diseases in alarmist propaganda in a sick attempt to get people’s money.

There were no news anchors or reporters jumping to mention autism…

You do realize that the era before this was the era where people associated autism with Rain Man and thought that he was as functional as we got, right? (despite him being based on a guy who wasn’t autistic. Don’t know how the character came by that change)

And before that, we were reviled as a symptom of bad mothers because some douche insisted it meant that mothers didn’t love their kids enough?

There was never this supposed golden age. As long as there’s been a diagnosis, there’s been a stigma, and before there was a diagnosis we’d be rounded up and locked in a crazy house chained to a bed for fifty years.

If anything, THIS is the best we’ve had, because at least now there are *some* people listening to us and because we have our own voices as a community.

Yes this is exactly what I was thinking And before autism had a name many of us were idiots and special kinds of imbeciles and childhood psychotics and retardates and other ugly names. Even after we had a name. Hell even after I was diagnosed I was re diagnosed by holdouts calling me psychotic since infancy, schizophrenic since late childhood, blaming my mother. And this was the nineties. Some people to this day believe the old stuff.