And now we have the Met investigating Non-Crime behaviours, we're not even allowed our own opinions any more. In some respects, it's good we're diverse thinkers, in others, it's bad because we don't conform to their narrow-minded bigotry, and a pattern has appeared with them hammering ASD individuals.
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I'm not sure what this is in reference to. I'm also pretty sure you're allowed to have your own opinions, as you are demonstrating.
The wider culture of NeuroDiversity and NeuroTypical entitlement. On the one hand, those of us born in the 1950s have lived lives of intense oppression, caused by teachers taking their own inadequacies out on those who in complete innocence were shining the spotlight of reality on them. The Equalities Act 2010 was supposed to have changed things, but hasn't: I'm here fresh from reading about the abuse doled out by a local Special Needs school, the Whitefield School.
The recent legislation is recognised as putting the Neurodiverse particularly at risk. In my case, trying to sort out a diagnosis which was more full of holes than a Swiss cheese, with a reality that was a complete opposite to my self-understanding. To find No 10 begging for the skills which had won the greatest plaudits possible - there's no doubt about it, the opening reference to Nash competence addressed my career path as the only economist on the team which won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, and the work they'd seen me deliver in 2015 removed all doubt in the matter, confirmed from the horse's mouth in his explanation to the Covid Enquiry 31.10.2023 - was still couched in utterly contemptuous terms, look at point G on that call for help, calling us weirdos and misfits. Given I was deeply disordered at the time, caused by the utter stupidity of the diagnosis, and by being totally trashed by the thug who discovered he wasn't God's Gift to the UK only after destroying his Party's competent experienced hands as a threat to his ambitions, I couldn't care a damn - I've altered rather a lot of history along the way, as what's called a Tier One individual. I'm far from the only such, this community is home to many, but until there's a MAJOR rethink about how we work - and that starts by firing the entire bunch of quacks who theorised this ADHD/ASD thing because they did soin near-total ignorance and complete and utter prejudice.
My very first response to my diagnosis was to ask for academic papers explaining. One of the team, working in his private practice, was an incumbent Professor of Psychiatry at UCL, so I was expecting to be inundated. But no, nothing. They'd diagnosed from a book, not realising the study was of a different culture and context. So I've spent the last decade being brutal to myself to be objective. The same study that these trickcyclists overloaded on was accepted by the Warburg Institute, the world's top academic specialists in the subject, and by the Head of Yale's new Genius School, because I'd shown him that on of his own studies was half of the justification for the Renaissance. That created a huge conflict, because the diagnosis suggested I'd set the top bar for childhood IQs, and yet I'd been told I was normal. Is it normal to complete Gandhi's unfinished business from a standing start, unbriefed, in eight hours? I think not. Eventually, after years in denial, I faced that reality and firstly discovered what I was just talking about, Craig Wright's Hidden Habits of Genius (Yale UP 2020) and then, on the Gifted Subreddit, Mary-Elaine Jacobsen's The Gifted Adult, which finally ticked the boxes, seeing us as everyday geniuses. Craig was working from the major plonkers of our kind, the Musks and Zuckerbergs, the seekers of celebrity, which is NOT how it really works.
But where those responsible - the entire staff of that school, and of the education committee responsible, and everyone else who turned a blind eye to protect the system - have been investigated by the police and no charges have ensued, and the best offered now is an Investigation ie the long grass, you ask me to accept I have a voice. Sure, but is anyone interested in listening?
The reason I think we're NOT allowed to express our informed opinion is a little thing called the Cassandra Syndrome. Like her, my diagnosed hyperperception is a seer medium gift. NeuroTypicals can't cope with the fact I can look into their minds and tell them their deepest secrets. I don't, because it's a gross ethical infraction of their right to privacy, and because it's mostly a sordid and at best a banale experience, but I did to one of the diagnostic team, just to show I wasn't joking. If you research that condition, you'll find it's mostly issues between a gifted subject and their NT spouse, but more widely it's precisely because the spouse is typical of 99% of humanity. In the last 50 years, you've listened to just ONE autistic individual (Temple Gradin, and she gave up on you after a decade), and preached AT millions ever since. It's ridiculous.
First, know yourself. We don't, because we've been lied to. How many here have compound diagnoses, because the DSM hasn't spotted there's an elephant in the room and the diagnosticians are one of the12 legendary blind men? I can only speak for myself, but I have ears and eyes which serve far better.
Second, fire the likes of Simon Baron-Cohen for genocide. Go read the UN definition, his Eugenics thinking qualifies. In fact, it's like asking a man blind from birth to describe the colour blue.
Third, once we have a solid audited definition - one others from this community can test, and which fits correctly in all instances - only then can we start to teach truth. Only then can we properly handle our skills.
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