tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post8628277952786406900..comments2024-03-14T18:26:18.208-07:00Comments on autism's gadfly: An email from Alex Plankjonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-27485678562395946672012-01-11T11:21:43.370-08:002012-01-11T11:21:43.370-08:00While your points are probably valid, I can only d...While your points are probably valid, I can only deduce from the tone and bitter nature of this post that you may need to rethink things a bit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-4845255267898003782010-01-05T11:57:23.192-08:002010-01-05T11:57:23.192-08:00Yeah, I understand, Jon.
It's just that I'...Yeah, I understand, Jon.<br /><br />It's just that I'm tired of hearing the same thing my whole life. I just wish I could accomplish my goals wherever and whenever I want. I feel like growing up that I didn't have any flaws compared to other people, and if people left me alone to do things within my own timing, I could get things done....only I never got the chance to prove anything. <br /><br />I don't get why people would rather listen to Temple Grandin when I'm the one who's had it harder than she has and I know how to explain the limitations of autism and how they can be overcome from having social-pragmatics training vs. someone who hasn't. Instead, employers and employees would rather look at the resume and other components that are easy to lie about on a resume. <br />Even once the individual does find some activities and other work to add to his/her resume, it's never the ideal, perfect job he/she wants. It's either you work to keep everyone on the Earth surviving with its resources or you're laid off as a parasite. <br /><br />My job as an advocate would be to help individuals on the autistic spectrum and others with disabilities cope with understanding that 'auties' and 'aspies' aren't much different than 'NTs' who share the same resources on the same planet, only we're limited compared to them. What we do need, however, is guidance and reassurance for goals one with a disabilities has from NTs so they could contribute to the Earth like any other human being. NTs just need to be educated. Speech-language pathologists could make a great counselor to the person on the spectrum and serve as his/her interpreter to his/her parents as to what the person with the disability is trying to express, especially myself from my own experience of having a language disability or 'difference'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-32834370644501498592010-01-05T07:56:55.341-08:002010-01-05T07:56:55.341-08:00Now that's a better start than working at a su...<i>Now that's a better start than working at a supermarket like Publix, right Jonathan?</i><br /><br />Jedi: There are a couple of old sayings. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. Also, before they're hatched, don't put all your eggs in one basket.jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-43405587134019845122010-01-05T06:13:28.358-08:002010-01-05T06:13:28.358-08:00Plank is like all of the neuroinsane. He never ad...Plank is like all of the neuroinsane. He never addresses any criticism. He can lie all he wants on his stupid website to brainwash the dimwits but, he hides like a weasel when anyone points out his deception.John Besthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133970669787632440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-20793667514055962622010-01-05T00:43:24.416-08:002010-01-05T00:43:24.416-08:00And unlike some naive autistic advocates and publi...And unlike some naive autistic advocates and public speakers, I'll have credentials and references from my certified speech-language pathologist! <br /><br />Bwahahahahaha!!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-84533448849901823442010-01-05T00:35:06.910-08:002010-01-05T00:35:06.910-08:00Perhaps Alex can't find any other activity to ...Perhaps Alex can't find any other activity to add to his future resume? <br /><br />Perhaps I should start working as a public speaker and work for Autism Speaks so I could educate autistics and their parents how to turn their lives around by discussing alternatives to living a more productive life with the focus of partaking in goals to add to one's resume! <br /><br />Now that's a better start than working at a supermarket like Publix, right Jonathan?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-61917585561910502322010-01-04T19:17:00.598-08:002010-01-04T19:17:00.598-08:00Anonymous: I'll leave Katie out of it when sh...Anonymous: I'll leave Katie out of it when she stops giving anti-cure, pro-neurodiversity testimony before the IACC when that is exactly the opposite of its intended purpose vis a vis the combating autism act which created it.jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-53907644563704908102010-01-04T17:50:31.350-08:002010-01-04T17:50:31.350-08:00The email you received was, indeed, a form email t...The email you received was, indeed, a form email that was sent to everyone, not just you.<br /><br />Also, I would like to correct you regarding one of your "Facts"<br /><br />Katie and Alex haven't been together for nearly two years now, leave her out of it.<br /><br />My source? I know both of them quite well, and have spent a great deal of time with them both, which is also why I'm choosing to remain anonymous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-29482518299213116142010-01-03T14:09:27.983-08:002010-01-03T14:09:27.983-08:00Maybe his goals should include a visit to a long t...Maybe his goals should include a visit to a long term care institution to meet some less photogenic and less articulate Autistics.<br /><br />Maybe then to a Federal prison to meet some supposedly Shiny Happy Aspies that didn't have middle-class parents and gold-plated IEP's to guide them through their lonely teeage years, and ended up homeless and crazy through stress-induced psychosis.<br /><br />He'd poop his Chinos if he met an average "Aspergian" loose in the Real World.Socrateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12525104555859213125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-41875488814003576572010-01-03T13:19:49.578-08:002010-01-03T13:19:49.578-08:00I also got this e-mail (as I assume everyone else ...I also got this e-mail (as I assume everyone else who has signed up for an account on WP did) but I deleted it after I read the word "Asperigans."<br /><br />Why don't these people send their money to a worthwhile cause, not to a website or more movies that should be funded either through the owners or private grants?<br /><br />I mean, there are starving people in Ethiopia. I'd rather my allotted $50 a month I have for charity go to something useful.<br /><br />"He's a good ambassador for rich, white American kids with Asperger's. But little else."<br /><br />As is pretty much everyone else.Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12540927559726674184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-91338161412780478132010-01-03T13:15:36.047-08:002010-01-03T13:15:36.047-08:00I am a member of Wrong Planet myself, although I o...I am a member of Wrong Planet myself, although I only occasionally drop by. I think I'll respond to the email:<br /><br />"My goals for 2010 include finishing my first musical about autism, blogging at least once a week, and writing about autism. I plan to write about acceptance, human rights, treatments, AND cures."<br /><br />I wonder how he will respond to that last part?Adriannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-7169123180082586042010-01-03T06:44:53.882-08:002010-01-03T06:44:53.882-08:00I thought Alex's video was very good technical...I thought Alex's video was very good technically, but as I commented to him (and he did not remove my comment, it is still there), although the video is good, it does not reflect of the whole issues in autism and therefore is misleading. The issues presented are accurate with regard to some Asperger Syndrome people but not to autism as a whole spectrum, even if clips of Temple Grandin talking about the spectrum are included. <br /><br />I have read some comments on YT on that video and clearly what he says speaks for some right? Therefore in my opinion, it has some value.<br /><br />However, and as I have said already, a more suitable answer would be to stop grouping everybody under the same umbrella diagnosis, unless of course, we can advocate and represent accurately and fairly all on the spectrum. I have yet to see this happening from anyone I have come across in this field. It is so fractionated in opinions, with everyone claiming to hold the Truth about autism.SM69https://www.blogger.com/profile/16239400845268784984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-211452560299549622010-01-03T02:36:31.059-08:002010-01-03T02:36:31.059-08:00I can't argue that he's stamped on free sp...I can't argue that he's stamped on free speech.<br /><br />He threatened to ban one long-standing WrongPlanet.net member who reported on a certain little Elf's pantomime routine.<br /><br />His latest video does make some good points, although he seems to think the same naughty Elf is a good representative of the capabilities of non-verbal Autistics.<br /><br />He's a good ambassador for rich, white American kids with Asperger's. But little else.Socrateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12525104555859213125noreply@blogger.com