Zitat des Tages

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+From: Boris Kraut <krt@nurfuerspam.de>
+To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
+Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:13:15 +0200
+Message-ID: <20150820221315.6PxCGE@edupad.local>
+Reply-To: Boris Kraut <krt@nurfuerspam.de>
+Subject: [.plan] Zitat des Tages
+
+Meredith L. Patterson:
+> Growing up with autism is a never-ending series of lessons in how
+> people without autism expect the rest of the world to relate to
+> them. This goes double for those who -- like me -- went undiagnosed
+> until adulthood: the instructions are far less explicit and the
+> standards are higher. "Stop drumming your pencil, don't you know
+> you're distracting people?" "Don’t be so direct, don't you know
+> you're being insulting?" "Put yourself in her shoes -- when are
+> you going to develop a sense of empathy?" Invariably, the autistic
+> behaviour is marked as less-than, called out as needing to change.
+> So we adapt; we learn to keep our "abnormal" attitudes and behaviours
+> to ourselves in the hope of blending in, and when we discover
+> communities where, by chance, we fit in a little better without
+> having to try so hard, we cling to those safe spaces like a drowning
+> man clings to a lifebuoy.
+
+
+[0] https://medium.com/@maradydd/okay-feminism-its-time-we-had-a-talk-about-empathy-bd6321c66b37