Post Diagnostic Meltdown

I am firstly sorry this one is late by nearly a week😶. I was waiting to talk about my experiences at the DANA Post Diagnostic course. Then I had a meltdown💫🙃. That was from the DANA Post Diagnostic course😶.

Anyway, the course it self taught me not much else I didn't already know. For anyone who hasn't been to one.  A post-diagnostic course is where you learn some bits about your condition, in my case autism (Asperger's), you learn about the strength you can have being autistic, learn how to control certain issues and how to fit into a neurotypical world. And we did this for 3 hours💥 and have this again next Tuesday.  Well, anyone who knows my thoughts will know that I don't think we should fix it, we should be able to thrive alongside neurotypicals; all we need is a little kindness and support from people around us👪. My 'superpowers'💪 are to mimic anything I need to be to get by, alongside some others but I want to focus on this one. I know some people will say this is masking, but mine isn't I can mimic different genders and sexual orientations- that isn't part of masking neither is being able to copy peoples writing styles. This doesn't mean I don't understand why people need to fix it, in fact, I think it informs me more. It shows someone with autism can be seen as a neurotypical or as a person, rather than a problem or a condition. There was another thing that got me they kept calling it ASC (Autistic Spectrum Condition). This goes back to the cure argument so many posts ago. In short. If neurotypicals see the word condition they think it can be cured. If neurotypicals see the word disorder they don't think it can be cured but managed, although some see it as a way of avoiding autistics. The last thing to control certain issues they must be aware of our issues.

That brings me on this part I was looking through Facebook and I got this ad...

It's from NAS talking about autism awareness day, they are hoping to make a change by promoting autism awareness towards autistics and/or their families😂. Isn't that the part of the market that knows about autism? I mean they might promote if they like NAS. I promote autism every day I walk out my front door. I think anyone with autism does exactly the same. So a week of promoting us is silly. Then they add special prizes which means people have been bought to promote autism. That bit I see as bad, but essentially you are buying your own people to promote something they are😳. It's like Coca-Cola paying diet Coca-Cola to promote the whole Coca-cola as a business. This is from neurotypicals, so how bad is it that! They say we have small imaginations and are slightly limited. I think the business model on this definitely is😶.

I know I said I would fill you in on my PIP form; why I am so angry and what is happening. I will that is for Sunday as I now got most things sorted out...ish🙃.

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