Nope.
Autism is a developmental disability. That means we often share more in common with children that neurotypical adults. Any reason to “dislike” a child is also something disabled adults do. Vocal stims are noisy. Sensory seeking behavior can be gross. I’m not going to treat a vulnerable minority badly because of something they can’t control.
If you can’t even stand to look at a baby, your issues are deeper than your disability.
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Autism is a developmental disability. That means we often share more in common with children that neurotypical adults.
No, it does not.
You forgot I HATE BABIES!
But seriously, no. While I do have very little in common with neurotypical adults, I have just as little or less with children and frankly, I’m offended by the very comparison. My mind is not anything like a child’s, it is in fact far more resemblant of a typical Junji Ito comic book.
Dude, when I was in school I tended to relate more to mature, structured adults than to noisy, chaotic children. And I’m autistic.
@Skide #257610
it is in fact far more resemblant of a typical Junji Ito comic book.
Considering what his work is like, do we even want to know?
I don’t think “neurotypical” is an objective category. Different people have different ways of experiencing the world, and different ways of internally processing that experience. Different people have different levels of various instinctive drives. The full range of possible humanity is far wider than most assume. But even if not objective, it may still be a useful category; it’s the range of people for whom the society they live in does not cause them any inherent distress¹ or serious life challenges², or something along those lines. There are extreme outliers who would not do well in any functional society, but there’s a broad spectrum between that and whatever is widely considered “neurotypical”.
¹Excluding those caused by racism, sexism, classism, and similar -isms and -phobias, as those are not inherent to individual neurotypicality.
²Excluding those caused by physical disability, as this is not relevant to the subject at hand.
More relevant to the OP: just because someone has one particular trait (and likely, autism is not a singular trait but a range of them) doesn’t mean that they manifest in the exact same way, or even combine with other unrelated traits to produce the exact same outcome. This is a form of misaimed empathy brought on by not understanding just how much humans vary from each other.
@Timjer #257611
Lets just say when I used to tell my most every night dreams to folks, they would normally react with some rather fun wide-eyed stares… My married life and my cooking keep me nicely grounded in day hours, though. ^^
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