Autism: Is all the hate really necessarry?

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My Story
My name is Gina. I am fourteen, but my birthday is just around the corner. My father works for the military. While my mother is currently unemployed, she used to have careers with autistic people of various ages all over the spectrum. When I was four years old, I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of high-functioning and verbal autism. Unfortunately, I didn't find out about my condition until the age of eleven.
As a middle school student, I attended Special Education classes and was labeled by people as a freak and a retard. I became close friends with another kid with Asperger's and a boy with OCD. We were a tight square, but I was often the one who put herself in trouble by sticking up for her friends.
Eight grade was the worst. My school counselor didn't know beans about Asperger's Syndrome. It was the most formidable year of my life, and I was thirteen years old. Pre-Algebra was infuriating. My Spanish teacher didn't seem to like me at all. Our family was forced to wait centuries for me to get psychiatric help. That was a year I will never forget.

Autism- the real facts
I don't care how rare people claim autism to be; it's more common than you think. In fact, this might be hard to swallow, but many famous historical figures were believed to have autism. Some of those historical figures include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and even Thomas Jefferson. Each of them contributed to society in their own unique ways: Mozart gifted us with his beautiful music, Einstein gave us the Theory of Relativity and the famous equation e=mc2, Newton was the one to find gravity when he saw that apple fall from the tree, and Jefferson was a wonderful third president. And did you ever hear of Temple Grandin? She is a brilliant author who "thinks in pictures" and designed a humane way to slaughter cows for beef. This may change the minds of those of you who thought autistic people were retarded.
In my case, I have a gifted imagination. A few of you might already know about my made-up race, Heartspeople. I am writing a story about Heartspeople. In my story, Heartspeople were created by a scientist taking dead hearts and inventing a machine to make the dead hearts into human-like creatures. He then decided to breed the creatures and use them to bring peace to humans. Unfortunately, a heartsperson tried to kill a human, and because of that, humans rebelled against Heartspeople.
By the way I explained that, it might be difficult to understand. The point is, autistic people think differently than neurotypicals. That doesn't mean we aren't human.

Myths about Autism
There are many misconceptions about autism. As you probably noticed above, a widespread stereotype is that all autistic people are retarded. You're probably thinking now, "So autistic people must be geniuses." That isn't true either. Autism is known as a Spectrum disorder- there are many forms of it. Some people with autism are unable to speak or tie their shoes and are cognitive impaired (meaning they have low IQs.) Others are very intelligent. Many individuals follow the idea that autistic people don't have emotions. If that's what you think, you probably never saw a crying autistic child, which leads us to the next misconception.
To quote actor and comedian Dennis Leary, "there is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their [bleep] kids can’t compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don’t give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you – yer kid is NOT autistic. He’s just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.”
See how ignorant Leary is to make a remark like that? Autism is a real condition. I am not stupid, nor am I lazy. Autism is not an excuse for not getting good grades or being rude or antisocial.
Another common autism myth is: "Asperger's Syndrome is not autism." The truth is, Asperger's Syndrome is autism. It might have its differences from High-Functioning Autism (HFA) but that doesn't mean it's "not autism."
Although I am autistic, I do NOT support Autism Speaks, for a few simple reasons. First of all, most of the money donated to them goes to selfish employess who want to spend it on million-dollar crap. What they really want to do is find a way to detect autism in the womb before a baby is born so they can abort the baby. In their film "Autism Every Day" where the former Executive Vice President wanted to drive her child off a bridge when she was diagnosed, and the only reason why she didn't was because her neurotypical daughter was waiting at home. Does that teach parents of autistic children ethical treatment of young? If you think so, think again.

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WolfFoxDogHybrid1213's avatar
you're kinda like me :) when i came into my first school, every did'nt seem to like me, some of my friends teased me lot (making fun of my speech, wrecking my drawing, bullying etc) i was depressed most of the time and i never had a friend in the world :(, but it all changed when i went to an autistic school, i have nice teachers and i got lots of friends and frankly i don't get depressed much. btw it is a good thing too that you're standing up to people. Stay strong girl! ps i'm autistic too :)