Autistic Pride Day
Today is Autistic Pride Day, wherein we celebrate each other. Many people celebrate privately, but there are also numerous public events.
We will be celebrating by getting overstimulated and talking at great length to people who don’t want to listen about subjects they don’t care about. Then we will wander off in mid-sentence. Later, we will communicate between ourselves by reciting passages from movies and books that appear to be non sequiturs.
Trust me, they’re not. It’s like the underground railroad for Autistics, the NTs never even suspect we’re talking about them right in front of them. They think we’re stupid and weird. Heh. They’ll never see it coming.
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June 18th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Your son is very lucky to have a dad who also speaks autistic. I find it lonely sometimes when no one will repeat my scripts with me!
Also, I like the underground railroad comment. Very appropriate, and regular railraods are nice, too.
Happy Autistic Pride Day!
June 18th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Great post, Aspie Dad. As an NT, I have absolutely no idea what you said - but I’m sure it was funny.
June 18th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I am giving a lecture on my perseveration to a NT class….who pay for the privledge of listening to me talk at great length and watching me get overstimulated. For the most part they do not know I am Aspie or have no idea what that means in the first place!
I am teaching some algebra as part of the hands on and I am worried about this NT people ‘getting me’ because NT’s process at a different speed and are often math phobic.
It’s like they speak a different language!
~Sarah
June 18th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Happy Autistic Pride Day!
June 18th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Hilarious! I bet you’d love my son… He’s 3 1/2 years old, and quotes from videos and preschool computer games. Sometimes I engage him in dialogue by saying some of his favorite quotes, especially if they fit perfectly to a given situation. I’ve been quoting and repeating so much, it always makes me laugh.
August 26th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
LOL. Boy does that sound so familiar. But don’t forget the “Dad Jokes”, with the Aspie’ Twist. That only a Aspie father and son get.