Monday, November 15, 2010

Lili's reflective thought for the day

It is a sad and creepy thing to witness autistic people playing games of social exclusion, because these are people who know full-well what they are doing. Reasons or justifications can always be found, but it still looks ugly in my eyes. I know what a beautiful feeling it can be to be a member of an exclusive group; it is most seductive, but for me a seat that someone else should be sitting in never feels very comfortable.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please elaborate on this about what games autistics are playing. I am an aspie myself.

Lili Marlene said...

I was reflecting on events in the past, involving people in the offline world.

krex said...

Funny thing that....how autistics learn to mimic the "bad habits" of NT's as well as the "good" .

I see the same kind of behavior in the people I work for with developmental disabilities who rank themselves and each other on how "disabled" they are and exclude those who are more "disabled" . I personal think, like racism, this is learned behavior and an unfortunate psychological remedy for any one who feels a need to boost their own sense of worth . So sad that we can't teach all children to value themselves so they don't need external reinforcement to feel "good enough" .

Lili Marlene said...

I'm not sure that this kind of behaviour is so complex or tricky that there is much to learn. I think it is just a fact that many autists have had hard lives right from the start, and hard lives often lead to hard attitudes. There's also the revenge of the nerds phenomenon.