Anyone want to vent about how autism is depicted--THIS day?

>:[ Oh what a day to be talking about this!.Don't get me started on the resonance of World autism awareness day being right after April fool's day >_< !.I’ll vent first

-_- I am cheesed right now >:( .So predictably often >~< when you do hear about autism in the news it's about (i)a possible cause or treatment,(ii)how it affects little kids,(iii) "savants" or those very accomplished in a field particulary in STEM (science,technology,engineering and math) fields not angry gadfly's like myself who'd sooner find themselves written off as opionated but talentless self-righteous loudmouths .

Right now I'm in a place where I can't hear the audio but this headline,so please keep in mind that I may regret what I say about this once I get back to it in a place with audio

http://lifestyle.ca.msn.com/video/?vide ... 2893407500

From what **I can see** at least,great on Dakota Kiriachuk and Jay Serdula for the thriving they have at work.I'm NOT here to take away the meaning of their achievements by underscoring that but I feel like that's the one of the most frequent portrayals of success that autistic ppl get represented by,b/c for instance *I was* in an info tech related program (last year) but I certainly wasn't authentically excellent at it -.- .

I'm actually in a "general arts and science" program right now and God willing,going into office administration in September

There being an agency that want to “sell”/market an image of autistic labourers does not make me feel all that reassured when the scope remains to be STEM fi

I acutually *USED* to dream ever since I was child of being in the STEM fields even though on a more conscious layer I could more readily do more art,social sci and humanity related stuff and the energy can consistently gain off the information in that field,difficulty be damned.

Hey frig!,guess what popular news media >: ( !?!.

One of the reasons I probably "obsess" with social sciences,humanities and stuff related to the human condition is b/c it's a developement from **THE STRUGGLES OF BEING AUTISTIC** under it’s heavier influence when I was a toddler with barely any foreseenable psychological or even spiritual satistifaction around that I could readily find (without struggle) to give me attention when it came to my feelings,thoughts and my questions about existence and people .***THOSE STRUGGLES DON’T ALWAYS RESULT IN “SUCCESSFUL” .S.T.E.M. FIELD WORKERS!***.


I loved all knowledge and still do yet it took me so much longer (only fairly recently) to come to terms with how I'm flow better with doing "soft sci's" and humanities which I so often scoffed at following b/c of the reputed low payroll flow that comes from persuing such fields.

Big friggin fallacy to say the least .

As for my math?.When I was little hated it,as is standard among little kids,an unfortunate dislike that remains statically with ppl throughout their life ussually with little to no intention on their part to change it.But I dang well recognized the awe and impression made by being known to be good at it.I thrust myself to be good at math ESPECIALLY after an appreciated grade 7 teacher clearly established with me the link it has to science,motorizing my attitude towards it with occasional readings of high end theoretical sciences to whimsically inspire me.

In brief:two unpleasant and questionable teachers,a stubbornness to acquire the MCR3U1/grade 11 functions university level in spite of all odds in the form of the heavy cognitive labor math still presents even if you do sincerly love it and are aware of the foundation significance it has to existence unbeknownst to people who scorn it or see it mostly as another means to articulate “bragging rights” on created convoluted happenings throughout high school inducing some of the starkest exposure to internal turmoil combinedly originating and fueled by poorly made and misguided descions on my part and unfavorable events

…left me feeling like I was washed up on a beach shore after having accepted to have died in a raft during a overwhelming forceful storm.I still liked math,even did the grade 12 *college* math course and have had the fun privilege of math at Mohawk college..but I still sense a lacking of understanding math that I’ve come to terms to and darn well know how to treat much more fearlessly anytime. You can be a good learner but that doesn’t mean you’re a fast learner.The slow learner who “came late” to realize how the perform in a field is oft written off as nihl with any neglectfulness you wanna give.

The thing about math being a essential and inescapable corollary to science?.Well when you broaden the meaning of science to mean how organized knowledge isn't always merely about,info,facts and truth claims about systematically laid out knowledge on observable and experimented on natural phenomena and can include the characterizing abstract structures in sign systems we use to describe and operate (in a sense) on phenomena,thing is math IS a science;a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_science .


My journal entries and such can testify too >:(,too what I’ve said in this coloured font, bordering at ad nausem by now -~- .


Heck, does no one considers how a person with autism or Aspergers who's interested in "soft sci's" and humanities things could "peck" the shifp out of what common media says about autism >:( !.One of my counselors actually said that *social justice* is something that ppl with autism sort of are more clicked too!.

I've heard things about "latent" non-heterosexuals but I think the phrase "latent autistic" can find MUCH more reliable application b/c of how distinctivly not roundabout a non-heterosexual action is next to how tenously subtle it is when it comes to saying a person is autistic based solely on there actions.And it sucks if a person's understanding/recognition of what autistic ppl are like and behave like is limited to being pop culture and STEM field enthusiasts that comes (for one thing) from the implicit manifesting of the loaclaized bias part-and-parcel with the low arousal theory not unlike how it was with the portrayal of non-hetero ppl for a very long time as generalized to conspicously being into/like the people with opposite set of sex chromosomes,to say the least about the old scope of stereotypes.

It was like that a lot of stuff about non-hetero ppl even in the 90's media and longer (*cough* Will and Grace,sorta *cough*) where the person's gayness or other non-heterosexuality was there identity and there was not much more to them and continues to be that way.A potential vouching by Jim Parsons not withstanding ;l .These things being said can demonstrate how “painful” favorable or “positive” stereotyping is when only talking about the scope of how it’s shown in the media of post-industrial countries.Another portrayal walking the razors edge of ableism that I can only wish and hope will gradually erode away,not discounting current http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_per ... _of_autism in countries that can’t readily see persons who develop differently.

These current perceptions limited to (i)a possible cause or treatment,(ii)how it affects little kids,(iii) "savants" or those very accomplished in a field particulary in STEM (science,technology,engineering and math) fields are (unwittingly ?) effective at discounting the meaning of autism and it's struggles those who are misdiagnosed,still not diagnosed or not diagnosed till there legally adults like I was at 19 .Sciences and pop culture do have special places in my heart but there's so much,too much being ignored..

*I may come back to this cuz of the cbc video*

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I'd really like to hear what others feel like saying about this..