Monday, May 18, 2009

Integrity of the Individual

Each autist is an individual with their own unique perceptual reality

Autists are individuals first. We are bound together only by our alienness to
your ways. I am an alien to my own kind. I am an alien to the world. I can not
speak for other autists’ experiences, but I can speak to the universal
experience of alienation. I can recount my personal experience and struggle in
hope that a piece here or there will help someone. Mine is not the answer, just
one potential answer. In starting this I want my fellow autists to know they
have my deepest respect. I do not wish to contradict anyone’s individual
truth. Integrity of thought is imperative. Integrity of the individual depends
on it.

You come to this blog for the purpose of finding answers that will help your
child become a fuller person. Your first answer is to understand your child is
already a complete person with an intact soul. Learning and expression are the
issues. Autism protects personhood, it does not detract from it. Initiating
personhood in the outside world, that is the process we need to address.