I'm keeping this post vague because of confidentiality issues, but I have a strong impulse to rant about something which just happened in some form.
For anyone planning on attending any kind of autism support group in the future, a basic rule: do not comment on the fact that an autistic member of the group has supposedly "narrow interests" when this is clearly meant negatively. This is not what we call being supportive of autistic people. Argh.
Yes, this actually happened to Neil tonight, and I'm pretty pissed about it. I didn't mean for this blog to be so skewed towards negative representations, but sometimes it can be hard to help.
Monday, August 18, 2008
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Oh yeah, I have to agree that being too critical of a person who is at least trying to help out (or get help) in a support group is not very supportive.
Many who might attend some suport groups might not only have narrow interests, but actual obsessions, heaven forbid. (sarcastic?)
Patrick
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