Comments on: Amanda Baggs on CNN tonight

By: Crystal

Crystal — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:29:15 +0000

You certainly do not speak for this mother of two on the spectrum. Also a soon to wife of an Aspie not to forget both my brother and I are also on the spectrum. Oh wow Autistic people are capable of growing up to have lives like NTs (if they choose) some perfer being alone and I certainly understand. MY hope is for MY sons is for them to grow up reaching thier potential in life. Being the best Autistic men they can be. I do not wish to change a thing about thier unique ways. MY MAIN hope is for people like you to someday accept them for all thier unique ways and understand that just because someone is on the spectrum does not mean it is a tragedy. The only tragedy I see with Autism is ignorance.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:41:42 +0000

ok ???

By: Kassiane

Kassiane — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:20:14 +0000

MY hope comes from knowing the ISNT is hard at work…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:40:40 +0000

The hope comes from us knowing there will
be a day when Autism is out of our childrens life forever! Soon real soon !

Sarah

By: jypsy

jypsy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:31:05 +0000

Ah, yes… “cousin” Moe
And yes, I am a hopeless optimist. My (e)mail box is full of hundreds of letters from people thanking me for giving them hope over the dozen or so years my site exisisted.
“No hope”? No way!

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:56:02 +0000

Stacy, thank you for being a part of the conversation.

By: Stacy Goodson

Stacy Goodson — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:51:57 +0000

My Reply : Ok , Like before I came here by mistake
for that I am sorry , I for sure don’t want to be apart of a group that is not searching for a cure
for Autism.And to the person that was saying I am a troll , Give me a break , I dont wanna be apart
of your no hope group , but if you want me gone
just dont talk about me because this troll is always gonna defend himself and his family !We will find a cure and you can stay in the dark as long as you want.

Stacy Goodson
http://www.MySpace.com

By: Stacy Goodson

Stacy Goodson — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:50:16 +0000

>>>Janna’s Thoughts… » Functioning in the ‘now’. – …a place to capture the otherworldliness of thought. Says:
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 am

What I find most interesting are the people who, like Stacy over at Autism Vox, continue to say that we are giving up, that we are not about hope, that we don’t want anything to be done about autism.

By: Stacy Goodson

Stacy Goodson — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:48:34 +0000

>>>Janna’s Thoughts… » Functioning in the ‘now’. – …a place to capture the otherworldliness of thought. Says:
March 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 am

[…] What I find most interesting are the people who, like Stacy over at Autism Vox, continue to say that we are giving up, that we are not about hope, that we don’t want anything to be done about autism. […]

By: Autism Vox » Varieties of Asianness, Varieties of Autism

Autism Vox » Varieties of Asianness, Varieties of Autism — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:36:31 +0000

[...] In Assorted things I’ve meant to say, from the other side of the usual time-barrier, her post about her CNN interview on February 20th, Amanda Baggs writes about the experience of being interviewed on national television. Baggs comments on the reactions of others to her television appearance; on her own reactions on seeing her taped appearance (her first reaction was that “I didn’t belong there”; she also notes that, due to the experience of feeling (very understandably) “terrified” with cameras and television reporters following her around all day,” I looked a lot more autistic than usual (I don’t know any other way to put it)” ); and people who she had not known before who have contacted her after the interview. about the varieties of the lives of autistic persons We’re regular people, with regular, messy lives. We don’t fit into tidy categories. If ever a group of people didn’t read the rulebook when being born, it’s us. Many of us have additional things going on besides being autistic. Michelle Dawson has a visual impairment, Sharisa Kochmeister has CP, Gunilla Gerland and Donna Williams come from unstable families, Thomas McKean has a fantasy world and hears voices, Gunilla Gerland and Jerry and Mary Newport have all done drugs of some kind at some point, Dawn Prince-Hughes was an exotic dancer, Jim Sinclair is intersexed, Jeanette Purkis was involved in crime and at one point diagnosed with a personality disorder, Donna Williams and Thomas McKean and Adriana Rocha and a number of others have talked about experiences that most people would consider paranormal, Georgiana Thomas saw demons when she was younger that vanished when she became a Christian, Adriana Rocha thinks she’s the reincarnation of John the Baptist, Jerry and Mary Newport as well as Donna Williams have savant skills, Sue Rubin has Noonan’s syndrome, Kassiane Sibley has Rett’s syndrome, Jim Sinclair and Laura Tisoncik use wheelchairs, Jim Sinclair and Mary Newport have both talked about losing various skills at certain ages older than the usual so-called “regression” age, Sondra Williams and Jerry and Mary Newport and Liane Holliday-Willey and Donna Williams and Dawn Prince-Hughes are all in marriages or committed relationships and some of them have children, Liane Holliday-Willey and some others can fake normalcy enough to pass, Donna Williams and some others have had personas they used in order to pass, many of them had prior misdiagnoses of mental retardation or schizophrenia or personality disorders, and so on and so on and so forth. [...]