Autism Awareness is a Myth

I hope that the Autism Awareness campaigns will not continue. There is really nothing good that comes from them. While the campaign has been successful in raising funds for scientific experiments to try and cure autism and for promoting specific treatments, there are commercial interest with political support behind this, which does more to create the negative stereotypes which are the biggest cause of abuse.

There are people with original ideas and creative encouragement for autistics and certainly there are autistics living healthy productive lives and average lives worthy of respect but mainstream politicians aren't interested in that. Commercial and political interest is based on need so advertising achievement of anything positive is often contrary to the goals of people wanting to promote those interests.

There were people on the internet promoting alternatives to the mainstream view but many of the websites I felt were helpful are now only encouraging ASAN and their political agenda. They are involved in typical politics without regard for honesty or integrity. The people who promote these advocacy groups are mainly interested in the sport of politics and power-based networking rather than in creating better opportunities for people.

It is good for people to get involved in trying to change things, and I think blogging is a good way to do that, but I hope that people will be careful of a widespread myth that there is an autism community on the Internet but that it is divided.

Actually there is only one autism community but is not divided. The one that is represented on the Internet is truly representative of the entire community. This is very exclusive and elitist in the same way that the disability community is. Very few people are represented and most people who are affected by what the community does are never heard from.

A blog such as this one is irrelevant to the autistic community. To be relevant to that community people have to only describe the current political system as progressively working to make things better and enter that system by avoiding issues that are important to the majority of people. Instead they must in true political fashion berate peoples character and encourage sensationalism and backstabbing while discouraging any type of independent thinking that questions mainstream beliefs. This is how people show their true commitment to politics, which is the basis of the autism community.

Mainstream politics is oppressive in a similar way to the behavioral programs I have written about. They both create narrow definitions of human behavior so that all people can be considered to be motivated by the same things. That leads to everyone being judged in the same way so that diversity is discouraged. Each person is defined by how close they come to the official definition of normal. This hierarchy keeps the elite leadership from being challenged.

Actually, the idea of denial is based on a myth as well. What is considered denial is actually a very important part of everyone's mind and popularity is mainly the deciding factor for what anyone believes. I'm reminded of this every time I hear the term awareness associated with a concept which is used to exclude and oppress people who are vulnerable to the abusive rules and regulations which are created in the name of truth.

Autism awareness is worse than insignificant because it is masquerading as being used for promoting truth when it's really nothing more than a campaign for promoting psychology and politics by using traditional psychological and political oppression.