From 4fad552b4873f6e361709f56622a47e77c0b8e4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boris Kraut Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:13:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Zitat des Tages --- 2015-08-20T20:13:15Z.msg | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 2015-08-20T20:13:15Z.msg diff --git a/2015-08-20T20:13:15Z.msg b/2015-08-20T20:13:15Z.msg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..648f536 --- /dev/null +++ b/2015-08-20T20:13:15Z.msg @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +From: Boris Kraut +To: undisclosed-recipients: ; +Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 22:13:15 +0200 +Message-ID: <20150820221315.6PxCGE@edupad.local> +Reply-To: Boris Kraut +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 -- 1.7.10.4