Openly Autistic Bullshit

Ari Ne'eman considers himself the first "openly autistic" person appointed to a presidential post. Phil Gluyas ran for Parliament as the first "openly autistic" person to do so, before withdrawing after he realized he had no chance of winning. This is even more evidence that neurodiversity is modeled after the gay rights movement, as they are saying "openly autistic" akin to "openly gay." Even I know that is bullshit, as most sane people do as well. You are openly gay if you tell people that you are homosexual, whereas you are in the closet if you secretly have sex with men. However, there is no such thing as "openly autistic" and the fact that neurodiversity is trying to say that there is is truly appalling. You either are autistic or you aren't, and if you are it shows and there's no hiding it. If people can pass as normal, they must seriously reconsider whether or not their diagnosis is legitimate, because it either no longer applies to them or they got it so they could say they were "autistic" and paint it as a "civil rights issue," which we all know it isn't but a disease. Their principle of having a diagnosis and not telling anyone about it as being a "closeted autistic" is bullshit as well, because there is no hiding a diagnosis at all; if you have it, it shows. These "openly autistic" people also try to pin autism diagnoses on random famous people (most of whom are absolutely not autistic at all, not even remotely) to paint them as "closeted autistics" when they are not autistic at all, in addition to acting like there's more "autistic" people than there really are. This bullshit of people being "openly autistic" must stop, and it must stop now. It only further trivializes autism, and falsely paints it as a "civil rights issue" when it is in fact a disease which desperately needs to be cured. I have autism, and it shows. I could not hide it, even if I wanted to. I am not "openly autistic," I am autistic, and there is no hiding it. Once hiding it becomes possible, the diagnosis will no longer apply to me, however unlikely that is to actually happen. The cure for me will be chelation, not "compassion" or "understanding," because both of those accomplish absolutely nil.

If You Want A Revolution, The Only Solution Is To Evolve

I've been thinking lately about that NBA/Gatorade commercial and how it applies to autism. The opening line is "If you want a revolution, the only solution is to evolve." It is sung by a black guy (just like STFU) but that is beside the point. The real message is that trying to change the world is pointless, and that to be happy at all, you must change yourself. I feel this could be a perfect analogy to the ND/pro-cure debate. A neurodiverse autistic person is more likely to be stubborn and refuse to change, because they refuse to accept that autism is a disease. However, a pro-cure autistic person is more likely to realize that autism does nothing but hold them back, and would gladly accept a cure in order to have sex, which is something that everyone wants to do, whether or not they will accept it.

I used to have my head in the clouds regarding autism, but no more. I now realize what a horrendous disease autism is, and why it needs to be cured. Even I, who am relatively high-functioning, am feeling the effects, because I have not had sex and I am already 18 years old. That is intolerable in American society. Guys should have had sex by the time they were 16 or 17 at the absolute latest, and girls usually by 14 or 15. Anyone who is still a virgin into the years of legal adulthood is pretty much screwed over for life, because if you don't use it you lose it.

Another thing that turned me off of neurodiversity is how they openly admit how they are modeled after the gay rights movement, and state that how one day autistic people will be accepted as gay people are today. That is bad for two reasons. Number 1: it seems to hint that it is OK to be gay (which is isn't) and number 2: that being gay and being autistic are remotely similar (which they aren't). While people cannot control being autistic and there's nothing inherently bad about it, it is still a disease, and it causes great harm to the people who suffer from it. Therefore, we should cure it, akin to curing cancer and AIDS. Being gay, however, is not a disease, but a sinful and ungodly activity which must me stopped pronto. It is specifically prohibited under Leviticus 18:22, and study after scientific study has shown that homosexuality is indeed a conscious choice made by the individual (despite what gay rights activists tell you, which is censoring the scientific truth and coming up with bullshit "studies" of their own). If people choose to murder (which is also a sin) we throw them in jail, and the same should be true with homosexuality. Being autistic is not a sin, nor is having cancer or AIDS (unless you got the AIDS from being gay as opposed to doing drugs), but those are diseases that need to be cured for the betterment of society. Being gay is not a disease, it is a sin that is a choice and ungodly. Therefore, it should not be cured, but it should be punished. About 40 years ago, the stupid gay rights activists penetrated our liberal society and started convincing everyone that is was OK to be gay, regardless of what the Bible said. Now they've even convinced us to let them get married and serve openly in the military, which are the utmost of sins. Now, some sociopathic autistic people are using the gay peoples' same line of rhetoric, and this time the autistic people have the Bible on their side. However, it is even worse in this sense, as autism is a horrendous disease, not a sinful and lustful activity like homosexuality is. People don't choose to be autistic as they do to be gay, but it must be cured like cancer and AIDS so people can have sex. If there was no cure for autism, all autistic people would be virgins, and that is unacceptable. I'm here to make sure that doesn't happen. Gay people refuse to evolve into strait people, because they want to continue to sin to the Lord and make sure everyone else does as well. These sociopathic neurodiverse autistic people want everyone to be autistic, so they can all suffer. These NDs aren't even autistic themselves, and were paid off by Big Pharma. Any well-intended thing that Autism Speaks does is dismissed as "neurobigotry" by ND, and the liberal left backs them up. If you want a revolution, the only solution is to evolve. Gay people have refused to evolve into strait people, and it has contributed to our sinful society. Now, autistic people are being encouraged not to evolve into normal people, and that must be stopped, because we cannot have these diseased people in our society. It is bad for them and for us as a whole. I, however, am not one of those people. I am a diagnosed autistic, but I am willingly evolving into a normal person, and am currently in the process of doing do, albeit not completely there yet. Hopefully by 2011, I'll be completely evolved, or at least 75% there. Now, I'm less than 25% there, which is why I abandoned this blog for the past week or so, because I am in the process of becoming a normal person. It's more or less of a detox. This was my best post yet, and there may be more to come but I don't know.

"Who am I?
I'm not who you see
Gotta take a chance
Get to know the real me."

We're Gonna Go See The People!

Well, this is ironically my first autism-related post in quite awhile, but I feel it is one worth making. When I was significantly younger (roughly between the ages of 1 and 4) I did not have an official diagnosis of autism or Asperger's (that didn't come until age 6) but I engaged in socially inappropriate behavior that, had I been older, could've gotten me arrested. When I was in a public place (such as a mall, airport, or grocery store but usually not a baseball stadium) I would shout "We're gonna go see the people!" and then proceed to grab a complete stranger (usually grown men) around the legs, throwing them off balance. I was much shorter than they were (as I was less than 3 feet tall back then) so it was shocking, startling, and off-putting. Not only was it socially inappropriate, but it was obnoxious, invasive, and rude. The grown man would usually get very pissed off, and tell my mother to control her child better. She would in turn get mad at them for not understanding, even though I had no diagnosis yet. I, on the other hand, saw nothing wrong with it at all. In fact, when my parents tried to explain to me that these people were strangers, I got very offended, because they weren't strange at all. I thought they weren't strangers, they were people, and it was rude to call them strange. After all, I didn't say "We're gonna go see the strangers!" That was not the extent of my social issues. Once, I pickpocketed a woman's keys at the Bridgeport Zoo, although she was fairly nice and simply explained that if she didn't have her keys, she wouldn't be able to go home and see her children. Also, one time at Roxbury Park with my grammaw, there was this woman (who happened to be a psychologist) who I just randomly walked up to and started playing with her necklace. The psychologist then informed my grammaw that I had no body boundaries. It took us forever to find out what was wrong with me, and you can read more about that in the Autism Heroes book.

Oftentimes, a woman would run into me at the mall or at Target, and ask me if I wanted to do print ads or commercials or music video shoots. My mother would always have to politely decline, because my autism was not always apparent in public unless I was having a behavioral episode. However, I still cannot go to malls (due to my fear of heights) or to farmland (due to my fear of chickens) and I am very reluctant to go out into public at all due to my fear of normal people. If I had been cured of my autism biomedically at a younger age, perhaps I would've avoided all this, but God only knows. At baseball games, my social skills were always on top form, but let's not forget my Raffi concert experience (which can be the topic of another post).

Republicans Take Back The House

Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives, while making significant gains in the Senate. This will send a message to President Obama that his leftism will not be tolerated. The new Speaker of the House will be John Boehner (pronounced BAY-ner) of Ohio replacing Nancy Pelosi of California. It is unknown whether or not Pelosi will stay on as House Minority Leader. Boehner will now be third in the line of succession to the presidency, so if Barack Obama and Joe Biden both die, John Boehner will become President. Democrats unfortunately fared better here in California, where Jerry Brown defeated Meg Whitman for Governor, and incumbent Barbara Boxer defeated Carly Fiorina for Senator. Proposition 19 did not pass, however, as Proposition 8 did back in 2008. Jerry Brown will succed Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor. Brown previously served as Governor from 1975 to 1983, and his father Pat Brown did the same from 1959 to 1967. Sandwiched in between them was Ronald Reagan, who would go on to become the 40th President of the United States. All in all, it was a good night for Republicans, and hopefully we will send Barack Obama back packing to Chicago in 2012.

Giants Defeat Rangers In World Series

The San Francisco Giants have defeated the Texas Rangers in the 2010 World Series. As a Dodger fan, I must say, this fuckin' sucks. We have to beat 'em next year. But, from a non-personal perspective, this is the Giants' first World Series championship since 1954, which had been the third longest in baseball behind the Cleveland Indians (since 1948) and the Chicago Cubs (since 1908, more than a century ago). In the deciding Game 5, Giants pitcher Tim "The Freak" Lincecum (the two-time defending NL Cy Young award winner, although that reign is likely to end this year) the pride of UW, easily defeated Rangers pitcher Cliff Lee (who seems to always be in the World Series and will likely sign with the New York Yankees as a free agent this offseason) in a rematch of Game 1 in order to win the deciding game. The MVP was Edgar Renteria (a native of Colombia, who hit a 3-run homer to win this game for the Giants) who also won the 1997 World Series with a walk-off hit while a member of the Florida Marlins. Their manager was Bruce Bochy, who had never won the World Series but appeared in it twice with the San Diego Padres; as a player in 1984 and as a manager in 1998.

The Giants had dubbed themselves "The Misfits," with players such as Tim "The Freak" Lincecum, Brian "Fear the Beard" Wilson (who hails from Londonderry, New Hampshire where John Best lives) and Pablo "Kung Fu Panda" Sandoval. They weren't in first place until the last day of the regular season, but in the playoffs they easily mowed over the Atlanta Braves and pitcher Derek Lowe (and ended the illustrious career of longtime manager Bobby Cox), the Philadelphia Phillies and pitcher Roy "Doc" Halladay (who is likely to win the NL Cy Young award this year after 12 years in the AL, and pitched a no-hitter in the first round of the playoffs after pitching a perfect game in May) and finally the Texas Rangers and pitcher Cliff Lee. Their catcher Buster Posey is likely to be the NL Rookie of the Year, defeating Atlanta Braves star Jason Heyward.

Hopefully, the Dodgers will be better next year with their new manager Don Mattingly. The next meaningful game that the Giants (their archrival to the north) play is April 1 against the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. That is Opening Day, which I go to every year. Hopefully, the Dodgers will get off onto the right foot next year by beating the defending champions, and eventually by winning the NL West and the World Series