re: #72 A Mom Anon

Exactly. There’s quite a bit in this book about Nazi Germany because of Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner’s work related to Autism and how best to help children and their families. Neither one of them were angels either, both have blood on their hands.

Maya Angelou once said something to the effect that good people can be measured by the rule that when you know better you do better. I think when it comes to mental illness and various disabilities (I don’t like calling autism a disability either) we’re doing better the more we learn and the more that people living with those things have a voice. We’ll get there, it’s just very slow in a lot of ways.

I need to read more about this. I feel weird about it being called a disability too but I know this much, I’m definitely at an a disadvantage bu tI wonder if that’s more because my social presentation is different or that I really am limited. Perhaps it’s a little of both but I’ve always hated and felt uncomfortable attending seminars and going to job fairs for people with disabilities. I don’t feel disabled.