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Autistic Adults Picture Project yes we are autistic, yes we are adults

oddizm - eccentric and self-centered since 1959

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Autism Diva You gotta love a Diva who tells it like it is.

Autistic animations

You Might Be an Aspie If: hundreds of jokes.

Animated Meltdown and info on meltdowns

The buttons on this page link to sound files.

Never forget. Lovaas in 1965

Good MORNING ABA! ABA goes to the Vietnam War

Maybe the "experts" just aren't listening.

The Lucitania Hindenberg Foundation Dedicated to saving autistics one by one.

Important: Please read Dr. Laidler's article: Through the Looking Glass: My Involvement with Autism Quackery

Evidence of Venom an open letter to David Kirby

Lies and the Lying Liars who use statistics to Lie. Read  how the statistics are twisted to try to convince people that there is an autism epidemic!

Separating Fact from Fiction in the Etiology and Treatment of Autism: A Scientific Review of the Evidence Herbert, Sharp & Gaudiano Link to quackwatch.org

More adventures in the misuse of autism statistics.  Letters to the British Medical Journal's online Rapid Response board.

The plague rhetoric spreaders are cooking the stats. See the undoing of the plague rhetoric on quackwatch.org

Meet the hostess: oddizm

What are the odds of having an autistic child?  What are the odds of that child being valued? More of the Plague Rhetoric Plague.

See her brain.

Autism is a Catastrophe! Isn't it?

Recommended viewing, reading and the portrayal of autistics in movies and television.

Mad Child Disease. you can sign the letter here that objects to this derogatory term.

Our Names Are Autism, Too. Is Autism a hate filled monster? Autistics answer.

A little comment on famous autistics and why we probably don't really want to Cure Autism Now.

The Plague Rhetoric Plague - meet Odzilla-

Eugenics: Framing the Inferior: an essay by oddizm --- Critiquing the Framing of the Theories: by oddizm, et. al.

Smoke and Mirrors - The Making of a Stereotype by Alyric

A Question of Ethics - by Alyric

Knowest thou Flulenny? The Schafer Inquisition

Why do so many people seem to hate autistics? Why are some parents willing to so much money  in the hopes of getting a child who will  APPEAR to be indistinguishable from typical kids, but will, in fact, be an autistic pushed the limits of his acting abilit

Take a minute to read about the serious abuse of child autistics   that needs an official apology from a famous reasearcher and a prestigious university and the government agency that paid for it to be done. Compare with "Screams, Slaps and Love." the LIFE magazine article on Lovaas from 1965.

BF Skinner tells us that we are all merely organisms with behaviors and to forget the psyche. Click to hear him.

"I'm going to send a ballistic missile into the heart of autism" - Bernie Rimland Gee, ...thanks, ... Bernie.  - oddizm

click here to hear Skinner in context

Does Lovaas Style ABA makes the child "a subject"?

Does Bernie Rimland have WMD?

Stuff you gotta know if you are going to teach ABA to an autistic kid.

It's a problem.

Autism It's not like you think

Autistics have their own way of thinking that can be quite different from the rest of the world's.

They are often misjudged because the rest of the world doesn't understand the basic fact that autistics think differently. No, that doesn't mean that autistic thinking is inferior. Their basic style of thinking arises from the way their brains are wired. Which makes one big point: Autistics are not being different just to be DIFFICULT.

Many autism spectrum adults object to being objectified by the puzzle ribbon. Furthermore, it is mainly associated with the issues of "normal" parents of autistic kids and so doesn't represent the reality of most adults on the autism spectrum. They want a different symbol and here is my offering.

You may use it on a web page or on your personal stationary, or use it as an inspiration for your own creation, just don't take my design and sell stuff with it on it, right? And don't put it on offensive stuff. You can buy a t-shirt with this symbol from my cafepress.com shops. (The color on cafepress.com's fabric items, like t-shirts, is a bit duller than what you see on the computer monitor.)

Autistics Pace Themselves Well, of course they do! Autistics get overloaded by things that other people scarcely notice           (each has different sensitivities) and so in order to avoid overload            they have to pace themselves and allow for "down time",      time to "decompress"      They also pace back and forth as a way to feel better, get it? Very funny stuff. They race themselves, too, just ask Alex Bain.

And now a note from our sponsor... Asperger's Syndrome It's not just for breakfast anymore.

This slogan is typical of silly, tangential, Asperger's/High Functioning Autistic humor.

Lot's of autism spectrum kids (and adults) are drawn to commercial slogans and dialogue from movies. They use lines from these in everyday conversation, sometimes to the great puzzlement of those around them.

Note: Do not listen to the "experts" who say autistics don't have a sense of humor or that none of us can use sarcasm.

There are lots and lots (the official statistic*) of undiagnosed Aspies and Auties out there (where you are). Many of them are carrying around a bad diagnosis. There have been plenty who have been misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and plenty as schizoid. ------------------------------------------------ *No, seriously, ask them at the National Institutes for Mental Health, they'll tell you.  There are "lots and lots" of autistics have been misdiagnosed.

There have been plenty who have been accused of plain stubbornness and  laziness. I know how relieved I was to discover  AS and even with just my self-diagnosis I was relieved.

Now I am officially an Asperger's autistic.

and I like to share that fact

so that people will stop pushing so much.

I can't  deal with certain situations that people seem ; think that I SHOULD be able to deal with. People sometimes say to me, "You're so smart you shoud be able to.." aieeeee!

Oh, I have Asperger's Syndrome.

I've had a wonderful  time, but this wasn't it. ~Groucho Marx

I think this illustrates the way most  autistics feel about social occasions and even work that requires too much social contact. There are autistics who like to be around people, though.   We all could deal with it better if the "rest of the world" understood where we are "coming from" and how we need certain conditions in order to operate optimally. Too much noise and activity just shuts some of us down. We don't speak "chit chat".  It is, for most of us, a very foreign language. If you see one of us at a party (or elsewhere) and want to be really nice, ask us to talk about our favorite topic (special interest). Be prepared to sit there and listen for an hour....

Respect Autistics Now

Some people are demanding a "cure" for autism, but I don't think they realize what they are demanding. They seem to be seeking the end of neurodiversity.

Perhaps those demanding a cure for autism are practicing eugenics. It's something to consider. On the other hand      there are scientists who say they are looking for autism genes      in order to give them an appropriate understanding of autism for future and now living autistics.     They don't claim to be seeking a "cure".      I think that they may be doing the right thing.      The better thing, though, is to take care of the adult autistics we have now, many of whom are living on the street or in other bad situations.

Many autistics say they are not unhappy because of their autism but because of the way they are treated by the outside world

If autistics were given an environment in which to flourish, with demands that were appropriate to their abilities, then all could benefit

Great things happen when autistics are given a chance to live up   to their potential.

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Stimming is something that autistics do naturally. It is not meant to irritate the rest of y'all. Stimming includes: various types of rocking and flapping motions. Leg tapping, swaying, pacing, humming, sound making, staring at beautiful things, staring at walls, staring at lights, teeth clenching, hand squeezing, touching soft things, touching hard things... Stimming is calming for those of us who are being bombarded by stressors nearly all the time in situations that normal people have no problem with. More on oddizms and graphics.