Autism, Identity and Me: A Practical Workbook to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+

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So, if you are Autistic, the whole concept that everything about you is wrong is being drilled into you pretty much from the moment you are born, hence Masking. I talk about the difference between Autistic neurology and non-Autistic neurology all the time. I talk about being Autistic from my head to my toes all the time too – but what does that actually mean?

identity for autistic teenagers | Raising Children Network Self-identity for autistic teenagers | Raising Children Network

The way we take in and process information through all our senses, the way that information is sorted and directed through our nervous system, the way our memories are stored and filed, the priorities our subconscious brain decides upon and the way in which that is expressed outwardly in our decision making, our movements through the world, our communication, our expansive consciousness, our whole existence. Simply because the power is in the hands of people that don’t know what they are doing and don’t understand who, or what they are dealing with? Autism doesn’t define you

Sometimes it can be easy to look at what we don’t like. Maybe because we spend a lot of time looking at what we don’t like in ourselves. But fostering a strengths mindset of ourselves, fostering a strengths mindset in how we see others, builds up self-acceptance, builds up communal acceptance, builds up strength of identity. With Autism, the knowledge, understanding and even ability to provide supportive services is just not there. There is no adequate support for Parents. So they turn to the only salvation they have: The wealth of ‘treatments’, ‘therapies’ and ‘cures’ all offering ways to ‘fix the problem’

Identity Theory of Autism: How Autistic Identity Is The Identity Theory of Autism: How Autistic Identity Is

There is an incredibly large industry that surrounds Autism. There’s huge money to be made from it. Experts who were misled by hubris, who set an arbitrary bar of what is ‘normal,’ and measure Autistic people against it.Due to this the Identity that most Autistic people naturally adhere to, is either the one of the Mask where they hide in the shadows, or the one written by the hunters, which is still a Mask, just one created by someone else. Prejudice is an antipathy towards another person based upon pre-existing belief or opinion, resulting from some form of social categorisation or membership of a particular group. It relies upon a stereotypical characterisation, or generalisation, of others, which is not grounded in evidence or experience. In this sense, prejudicial views are not based upon rational judgements and are inherently unjust. This article is a deep dive into the importance of Identity and how the medical model of Autism and societal views towards Autism have a huge negative impact on Identity.