Opening of the Way

Usually the proponents of ~Autism-Aspergers~ are putting up this idea of ~neurological difference~ to say that ~Autism-Aspergers~ is not a ~mental illness~ and that it is also not really a ~disorder~ or a ~disability~.

But I hold that it is patently obvious that this is just capitulation to bullying and labeling.  It is absolutely no one's business how my neurology or your neurology are wired up.  And there is no reason any of us should be subjecting ourselves to testing or questionnaires, or to have to be advancing such labels to plead for approval.

That Nick Walker finds people willing to go along with his ~radical neurodiversity~ idea strongly suggests that he is preying on those who are under duress.  They face duress because of abusive work environments, and most likely because of abuse school environments, and especially because of their parents.

This Jayne Lytel is a frightening woman.  This book is saturated with the hatred that she and the husband feel for their second son Leo.

https://www.amazon.com/Act-Early-Against-Autism-Fighting/dp/039953394X/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=act+early+against+autism&qid=1564006070&s=gateway&sr=8-3

Here William Stillman explains that there is no epidemic of autism, there is only an epidemic in demands for hours of Applied Behavioral Analysis.  He calls this "Mommy Guilt".

https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Autism-Looking-Spiritual-Secrets/dp/1601630050/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=william+stillman&qid=1564006159&s=gateway&sr=8-5

Majia Holmer Nadesan traces out the history of how the ideas of Autism and Asperger's could not have existed without universal schooling, without the mental health system, or without the eugenics movement.  She explains how Yale's lab was started by a leader in the international eugenics movement.  Many of the most vocal Autism-Asperger's advocates received their ~assessments~ there.

She also goes on to explain what she is calling "Bio-Looping", meaning just the horrid hatred and othering, sometimes classified as ~treatment~, which those so labeled are being subjected to.  And of course this makes one more withdrawn, more fidgety, and more susceptible to further scapegoating.

Most of what is being called ~Autism Aspergers~ seems to amount this Bio-Looping. according to  Majia Holmer Nadesan.  But she does say that there probably was some original difference, but it is unlikely that anyone will ever be able to know what it is.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415321816/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

And then of course we know now that Hans Asperger signed for thousands of children to be euthanized, only saving the few he wanted for further study.  It was because he was able to hide his Nazi past that he evaded prosecution.

https://www.amazon.com/Aspergers-Children-Origins-Autism-Vienna/dp/0393609642/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hans+asperger&qid=1564009276&s=books&sr=1-1

Sami Timimi and his coauthors make it clear that they are being as emphatic as they can in their statement, "Autism does not exist."

Timimi also says, that what started the perception of difference could have been something just as simple as a child getting out to play with age peers a year or so later than the others.  He credits the upsurge in assessments to the rise of Neoliberalism, particularly in the UK's Tony Blair administration, and also to psychiatric policing and the resurgence of the eugenics movement which Neoliberalism has brought.

https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Autism-Medicalising-Emotional-Competence/dp/0230545262/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=sami+tamimi+myth+of+autism&qid=1564007897&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr0

Peter Breggin has written, originally in 1991, that all of the US Autism advocacy groups are simply defensive formations of the parents, needing to prove that autism is real and genetic.  But in fact they haven't proven or disproven anything, except that there is strength in numbers.

https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Psychiatry-Electroshock-Biochemical-Theories/dp/0312113668/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=toxic+psychiatry+peter+breggin&qid=1564008250&s=books&sr=1-1

So what it looks like then, as always seems to be the case with these group targeting's, is that it depends upon members of the targeted group picking up the mantle and doing it themselves, to their fellow survivors.

John Elder Robison, Temple Grandin, Nick Dubin, and Alex Plank are impossible to listen to, once you see what they are really saying, and what they have internalized.

And this is why free blacks found Harriet Beecher Stowe's protagonist an outrage, so much so that they made an oblique reference to him when they demanded of the Massachusetts State Legislature that they be allowed to serve in the militia.  And when they were denied this, they bought their own uniforms and started drilling and training themselves.

In France someone who aids oppressors is known as a collaborator.  But in the US, reference is made to Harriet Beecher Stowe.  She wanted Whites to accept him, so being a Presbyterian Seminary Teacher, she made him a paragon of Christian virtue.  Even tortured to death he would not betray the escapees.  But nor did he ever make any attempt to fight back, and nor had he ever made any preparations for resistance or revolt.

So needless to say Bonnie, I find what you and Nick Walker are doing to be reprehensible and intolerable.  And I also find it to be based on ignorance of the basic issues of oppression and the necessary struggles to restore honor.

The litmus test for resistance is in the penalties imposed on perpetrators and in the reparations obtained for survivors, not in the accommodations made to placate bullies or the pleas for approval.

I would suggest then that the best place to start is not in Autism Advocacy, but rather with Frantz Fanon's "Wretched of the Earth".

https://www.amazon.com/Wretched-Earth-Frantz-Fanon/dp/0802141323/ref=sr_1_1?crid=17D01G7LLIR4I&keywords=wretched+of+the+earth+frantz+fanon&qid=1564010804&s=books&sprefix=wretched+of+the+earth%2Cstripbooks%2C186&sr=1-1

And Fanon was a psychiatrist and director of the psychiatric hospital, treating both the tortured and the torturers.  But by the end of their independence war, he had resigned his position and was clearly against psychiatry and any kind of psychotherapy.