I\u2019m ashamed to live in this age of disgrace.<\/p>\n
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As with all \u2018categories\u2019 that are no real<\/em> categories but only feable attempts to uphold an idea of \u2018knowing\u2019, there are of course many causes of the phenomenon called \u2018autism\u2019. Sure there is genetics involved as well as several physical environmental factors. Is this not the case with any<\/em> human characteristic? Do you know an exception?<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n Yep. I\u2019m suggesting that psychological factors are<\/em> really<\/em> -even very- important in the genesis of many cases of autism. And yep. I know I\u2019m falling now in the eyes of those who have the habit of not reading half a sentence further when they feel a certain \u2018holy opinion\u2019 being violated. Especially when hidden agendas are full of repressing (or trying to) deep feelings of guilt\u2026<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n Let me therefore quickly (enough?) disclose the second half of the autistic sentence: guilt is not<\/em> necessarily involved when one says \u2018psychological\u2019. Actually I think it almost never is. What causes the misunderstanding, is that human psyche is tremendously much wider than is generally thought. \u2018Guilt\u2019 belongs to a very small part of it, but not to the whole. It\u2019s therefore no good reason to ignore the whole, or even any small part of it. Ignorance leads to personal tragedies.<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n It may be politically comfortable to ignore the psyche. But it\u2019s not my politics.<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n Parents (or parent figures) of autistic children are not guilty. However, they are<\/em> responsible to go as deeply into it as needed. Including psychology. Autistic children are in desperate need to \u2018come out\u2019. They are prevented from doing so. This is not because they are \u2018weak\u2019 but because they are simply different, namely: in a deep way very<\/em> much more sensitive. Now, being very sensitive is an asset, not primarily a weakness. It\u2019s the environment that artificially makes it into \u2018weakness\u2019. Do you call a flower \u2018weak\u2019 when it is overrun by a bulldozer?<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n Fact is: the bulldozer has no reason at all<\/em> to be there.<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n Look at autism in another way: these children (and adults) don\u2019t understand the language that is generally spoken. On the contrary, they are much more able to understand \u2018whispering\u2019 (see related Sticky)\u2026 but this is not available to many people, autistics included. This is not fair at all. Parents want to talk to their autistic children, but the only things they produce are utterances that are (relatively) painful to the heart. If nothing comes through but what is all too painful, the painful is expected and the gates are closed. This doesn\u2019t happen at a conscious level, but it happens nevertheless. Ignoring it may be comfortable to the ignorers, but only for a little while. The problem is that many are stuck in this little while.<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n If it takes a hero to overcome this, then be a hero. That\u2019s final.<\/p>\n \u25ca\u25ca\u25ca<\/p>\n\n