tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post9048882497604197178..comments2024-03-14T18:26:18.208-07:00Comments on autism's gadfly: More cattle manure from Templejonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-87068222387879909452008-12-21T02:28:00.000-08:002008-12-21T02:28:00.000-08:00Maybe Temple Grandin will think I'm good enough if...Maybe Temple Grandin will think I'm good enough if she ever finds out I just earned an A in Visual Basic and a B in Intro to C++ after having earned a bachelor's in criminal justice from a Florida University. I will continue taking additional classes until I get a certificate in Web Development Specialist at my local community college while trying to work my way up to the job market in this horrible economy patiently despite having autism- not Asperger's Syndrome- a condition which she does NOT even have that the article mentioned.<BR/><BR/>Her advice on me trying to volunteer at the medical examiner's department to get into the back door of a career there was just as terrible as her temperamental opinions she pointed out from the article. All I ended up doing was filing and a bit of paperwork at the medical examiner's within the bureau investigations department (as if I was going to get a job at that area anyway) for close to 6 weeks, only to eventually be told the place hasn't been that busy and I should try volunteering elsewhere until around January where work may possibly pick up again. The only positive part of the whole thing was adding additional volunteer experience to my resume, but that wouldn't be good enough according to Temple, would it? No way! So what excuse does she make for someone like myself who doesn't have a job, yet? That the employees of the Wall Street Journal should have been engineers so their talent was wasted! That kind of remark just shows you how flawed her logic truly is and/or how much denial she is of her own disability, not realizing she's successful IN SPITE of her handicap.<BR/><BR/>Since when did having school uniforms prevent teasing autistic kids? I was required to wear one in middle school- at a Jewish private school- and it did not control anyone's decision to pick on someone like me at times. I mean how was a damn ignorant middle school kid in the 90's supposed to be supportive and accommodating over particular sets of collared shirts and navy or brown shorts/pants/skirts? What if the other students don't even want to bother trying so hard to give in every time it's the type of kid who follows at least one particular peer around every day and asks if he/she can come over to his/her house while the <BR/>peer(s) doesn't/don't really want to be his/her friend despite not living with the disorder from a first-person perspective or even having a speech-language pathologist stop by the class at times to observe the student's behavior and educate them what's going on inside the kid's head, or possibly coming up with a way to temporarily alter the nuerotypical students' brains similar to the way an autistic's brain as quickly as possible just so they can be more accommodating? That's just not going to work! <BR/><BR/>While mainly my mother did spend time with my teachers, principal, vice principal and a couple other team members of my elementary school for my IEP, and I believe she got my Kindergarten teacher to let the other students know about my disability, the kids asked me questions like, "Why don't I talk?" (when I in fact was talking, just not conversing, only it never occurred to anybody to explain it to me in that manner), believed I could be controlled (and it is true to a certain extent if I react on impulse the minute someone tells me something, only he/she was really joking), and then for some reason the students were no longer informed about my disability by an adult by the time I hit first grade, only some of the kids already knew from knowing me from Kindergarten (and it JUST somehow popped into my head mostly likely due to the speech therapist I had as a child as well as other therapists in the late 80's to early 90's not realizing she (and they) was (were) accidently re-wiring my brain to cause me to forget about these actual incidents in my early childhood. It's also possible that it's the cause of some of my processing problems and why I grew up saying and believing in certain things.<BR/><BR/>In conclusion, Temple's beliefs may be a possible cause as to why she'd make some of her idiotic statements and opinions (i.e. AS kids getting teased for being weird and not having an overt enough disability because don't forget- Temple's problems are quite obvious to society and always have been due to the public school systems and everyone else she's encountered her whole life because she has autism (not Asperger's) and partly due to the ignorance of what the speech therapist did to poor little Temple with the little knowledge of autism that was known back in the 50's (that wasn't the therapist's fault obviously but wouldn't be surprised to get falsely accused of offending any one of them who came across this post).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com