tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post7091524666043740922..comments2024-01-11T02:43:41.872-08:00Comments on autism wars: Dear John (Elder Robison)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post-49895892841078829212015-04-21T22:40:00.495-07:002015-04-21T22:40:00.495-07:00Robison is obviously a filthy traitor who has a pr...Robison is obviously a filthy traitor who has a preoccupation with his impending demise at the Communistic hands of A$. I won't feel anything for his sorry sack...SmackCrackNPophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14081813899020669748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post-91411076573711623622015-04-11T15:20:50.467-07:002015-04-11T15:20:50.467-07:00I forgot to say that epilepsy and Crohn's are ...I forgot to say that epilepsy and Crohn's are not the same as autism. And also forgot to say that yes, you can celebrate any factor, including Crohn's or epilespy that is a catalyst or transformative agent in one's life. So autism can be celebrated because it is part of one's personhood. What people are is not what you think of them. it is about how they see all those things that combine to make them who they are.<br />Kerimahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08008406418960337170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post-75103759197577818672015-04-11T11:17:25.176-07:002015-04-11T11:17:25.176-07:00Hi. While I appreciate your input I don't supp...Hi. While I appreciate your input I don't support anyone speaking for John, or speaking to their belief of John's intent, because this is something frequently done to autistics that presumes they are incompetent to speak or clarify themselves. John responded himself below. At any point where I have expressed upset or concern, John has always responded directly. I need to correct you about something you said. I personally know literally hundreds of people who celebrate having autism. Some of them blog about it. Speaking and nonspeaking, they celebrate who they are just as many people celebrate being born deaf. Understanding why they do this is our responsibility to learn in order to understand them. It is actually not their responsibility to justify to us. Probably the largest issue facing our community is the very statement you made, that presumes that someone who is autistic has a negative view of their own personhood, or should have a negative view of their own personhood, because they are born with divergent neurology. This point of view, that a person born different must feel they are the children of a lessor God because we see what makes them different as undesirable is the problem based on a belief that medically defining someone is more important than understanding them as they are.Kerimahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08008406418960337170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post-88521526472294513902015-04-11T10:50:49.503-07:002015-04-11T10:50:49.503-07:00Hi John,
Thanks for responding each time I have a ...Hi John,<br />Thanks for responding each time I have a concern. Their are opinions in your writing that do upset me. If I did not wish you to respond or explain I would not have made this a letter to you. I would have simply deconstructed and listed every instance in which you've written something upsetting. You have a right to be able to respond, clarify, and discuss your body of work to everyone, including me. But this particular topic is one where I must differ to nonspeaking autistics who type to communicate to explain how they feel about this month and why they celebrate who they are as nonspeaking autistic adults so at the end of this letter I asked that in exchange of my effort to understand you better by reading your body of work, that you read the words of people who type to communicate. This was about them, not me. Also I rarely address, criticize, or name folk I don't feel like talking to. If I'm criticizing you, that means you are worth taking the time to criticize. I have a young man about to enter his teens who commands a great deal of my time and attention so time is something I feel is precious enough to spend wisely. <br /><br />Best Wishes to you too,<br /><br />Kerima ÇevikKerimahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08008406418960337170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post-20423411013213038062015-04-10T18:30:43.740-07:002015-04-10T18:30:43.740-07:00(Also second attempt)
My answer is in the form of...(Also second attempt)<br /><br />My answer is in the form of a question. He joined an organisation that srpuiks for our genocide and calls us things you would not dare say to the faces of other minority groups. He let them use him as a token to give themselves a further illusion of legitimacy. What other explanation do you propose for him doing those things?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post-80701647085552839762015-04-10T18:26:51.546-07:002015-04-10T18:26:51.546-07:00My answer is in the form of a question. He joined ...My answer is in the form of a question. He joined Autism Speaks and basically let them use him as a token to try and legitimise themselves. How else would you explain him doing that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post-52584781954505466242015-04-10T10:27:59.040-07:002015-04-10T10:27:59.040-07:00Thank you for your thoughts on my essay. I must s...Thank you for your thoughts on my essay. I must say that I was surprised and saddened by your interpretation of my words, which is strikingly different from what I intended. <br /><br />Yet at the end of your letter, you say: I don’t call the month of April Autism Awareness or Acceptance Month anymore. I call April the month of Mustafa and his neurotribe. I call it the month of possibility. That is exactly what the point of my post is too - we should celebrate individuals like your son, and our entire autistic tribe.<br /><br />Whether you celebrate the autism itself, or the disability aspects of it, is another matter and one for each individual to decide.<br /><br />You say you don't like to read my writing because it upsets you, so I will not write any more to you but I will consider your thoughts, my intent, and how I might communicate my ideas more clearly in the future.<br /><br />Best wishes<br />John RobisonJohn Robisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07407165016025447113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post-68487929922593920952015-04-10T09:55:33.414-07:002015-04-10T09:55:33.414-07:00I think that maybe some dissemination might be use...I think that maybe some dissemination might be useful...there is a huge difference between celebrating the joy of life and the goodness we have and celebrating having autism, epilepsy, or Crohns. John is saying, I believe, that few people celebrate having autism. But that should never stop us from celebrating the life we have been given. There is no normal. Some may look 'normal' but everyone has their shit, if only their inability to truly see others as they are.JanJThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12474031784000437592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post-37406115664244905412015-04-10T09:37:45.286-07:002015-04-10T09:37:45.286-07:00John and I have never met, so I can only understan...John and I have never met, so I can only understand him through what he writes. In John's own words, he has subjected himself to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulaton, or TMS as a treatment for his autism. This made me sad, for reasons I can't explain<br />: http://jerobison.blogspot.com/p/use-of-tms-transcranial-magnetic.htmlKerimahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08008406418960337170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post-28167514506511564822015-04-10T00:29:03.849-07:002015-04-10T00:29:03.849-07:00(2nd attempt, sorry if this shows twice)
Hi! I ha...(2nd attempt, sorry if this shows twice)<br /><br />Hi! I have a question: does John have an internal issue with his own autism by chance? Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post-57095845235522948112015-04-09T17:23:50.672-07:002015-04-09T17:23:50.672-07:00Comparisons of autism to epilepsy are indeed valid...Comparisons of autism to epilepsy are indeed valid... but not for the reason that John and other curebies, open or otherwise, think it is.<br /><br />I am sorry, I will start from the beginning. Twenty-seven years ago as of this July, I was diagnosed with type one diabetes. It still boggles my mind as to how much ignorance there is regarding the condition at the highest levels. I was throwing baseballs and running to such an extent that I could eat at McDonald's four or five days a week, and still not be more than a kilogram or two over the unrealistic BMI of now. Then I started getting sick. Really, really sick. Not just with the ketoacidosis that accompanies undiagnosed type one diabetes, but all kinds of viral infections that doctors had to administer injections to treat.<br /><br />Nowadays they say in a few publications here and there that diabetes is actually the end result of an autoimmune disorder that causes the body to mistake islet cells for foreign bodies. I could have told them that for free, honestly.<br /><br />But the thing is, diabetes and epilepsy kill people. The manner is a little more indirect and time-consuming with diabetes, but if the anti-vaxxers got their wish and "biiiiiiig baaaaad pharmaaaaah!" went away tomorrow, it would take weeks or months for all the people with diabetes to die. And it would not be a pleasant death. I am told that similar can be said about epilepsy.<br /><br />Nobody has ever died as a direct result of being autistic. That is the stumbling block that John and his former paymasters try to pretend is not there. Take away the bleach enemas and other ridiculous "treatments" of autism that Autism Speaks FNA used to openly advocate and advertise. The causes of death chart would not deviate one iota between the autistic populace and the normie populace.<br /><br />Autism Speaks FNA and John Sellout are aware of this fact, and they fear it becoming more widely talked about. Which is why we should talk about it. We should repeat their crackpot comparisons between autism and cancer or diabetes, then demonstrate why the comparison is legitimate for the opposite reason to what they want people to think.<br /><br />I lost an aunt to a brain tumor that began as a lung tumor. I lost a substantial chunk of my face to skin cancer. I still have a right cheek, but one that is slightly shallower than the left and can be cut to rags without much feeling. I also fear for good reason that I might have a complication of diabetes that doctors call "neuropathy of the gut". I will leave people to look that up for themselves to see how unpleasant that can be. Every injury that has been done to me that oh-so-concerned citizens would like to blame my being autistic for is in fact the result of how others have treated me on the basis of being autistic. Knowingly or otherwise. So when Autism Speaks FNA moans about how investment in cures for diabetes or cancers vastly outpace investment for a cure for autism, I tell them yes, they do.<br /><br />That is exactly *as it should be*. Autism has never really killed anyone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4198181921354117372.post-78980843880465694752015-04-09T17:14:45.098-07:002015-04-09T17:14:45.098-07:00It's interesting to me, how different we all a...It's interesting to me, how different we all are and where we are in relation to autism. I recently had to distance myself from someone who I think is pretty brilliant on the subject but who also seems to have a mean streak, I feel they're baiting people into disagreeing with them so they can vent their spleen. It's a very sad thing to watch and not be able to do anything about. And I did try. Maybe it's my age, I'm older than most in the community,and I just don't have anything to prove. I also don't feel the need to keep perpetuating the idea that we're disabled beyond the need for adaptations so many of us need and deserve. If society saw us differently they would treat us differently, services and accommodations would just be seen as normal. We would seem normal. You've written a great letter, I hope he takes it to heart.PJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12059415005282675289noreply@blogger.com