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  • Why don't you start by not having such an ambiguous label that varies from being as dependent as a bald person, to being as dependent as someone with no limbs? Then it wouldn't be so stigmatized to the point you're getting rounded up like wild animals.

    • I imagine it is hard to type with whatever condition you have because you accidentally typed out really stupid shit.

      • I have complex PTSD from being misdiagnosed as that stupid a-word. I see what all these people go through when that six letter death sentence enters their lives too early. It takes a village to raise a child, but all these children were abandoned by the village and the world when they needed support the most.

        It's the same pattern. Everyone assumes you can't be educated, so they don't educate you, and you grow up uneducated. They assume you can't be independent, so they don't raise you to be independent, and you never grow to be independent. They assume you can't go to real school, so they don't put you in real school, and you never go to a real school. They assume nothing can be done about the issues you have, so they don't do anything about them, and you suffer from untreated mental illness and physical issues. (Hey bartender...) And, of course, the child's stunted growth is solely blamed on their disorder, and NOT the collective abandonment from society.

        Grouping all these experiences into ONE WORD is what causes people with sensory issues to be raised as overgrown dependent babies instead of having a real life, just while wearing gloves and earplugs for example. You say it's an infinite spectrum, but never oppose the one-size-fits-all approach to it, until the negative aspect affects you. Like right now with this post.

        • What you seem to want is to not be grouped with the "others". The ones that you look down on. The "dependents" as you call them. That is rather reductive to me. Just like people with blindness or deafness or the inability to walk can range in how well they can integrate into society or how much these disabilities affect them, the same is true for people with autism. You can have autism and look and act like, for all intents and purposes, a neurotypical person.

          For me, grouping these experiences humanizes the people that are less able to integrate into society. I can understand them far more easily when someone explains how sensory issues affects someone to a lesser degree.

          Like, we already group all experiences into one word, it's called being human, buddy.

          • I don't look down on the dependent people, I fight to avenge their lost time. The dependent people were cheated out of growing and being independent. I honestly believe that only a tiny tiny minority of these people are actually fully dependent on someone else. They were only raised to be dependent, and once they're actually taught how to be independent, they finally grow, much later in life. These people always blossom into an amazing human being once they're out of those abusive institutions and away from people who continue to infantilize them and bully them into staying regressed.

            Everyone sees that stupid a-word as Person Who Can't Age Past Three and raises everyone with that horrible label like they couldn't age past three. And then they don't age past three until much later in life if they're given the chance. And while they're being raised to be a toddler forever, they're holding in unbridled anger from the way they've been treated and several other things. You think the adult screaming and throwing chairs is only angry over not eating a candy bar? The candy was the fly that landed on the straw that broke their back decades ago.

            It's not just my experience, it's several experiences of several people who were cheated out of childhoods because of that stupid label. I watched people deteriorate into zombies, and I've seen them grow out of being zombies. It's almost as if the Help™ they received for their disability caused their disability.

            If we're all human then why are some people treated like animals, literally being given bits and pieces of snacks as rewards for following commands, and being forced to perform for someone else's fame and credit?

            And for the people who actually are dependent on others: they deserve a therapeutic life where they can be happy. Not one where they're abused by their caregivers every day like what happens today. And if they can shred paper for a fake job, they can work real jobs that actually benefits society like resetting Amazon delivery stations or being a janitor. Not only are they contributing, they get to socialize and be a part of society, which is what humans deserve.

            Just break up that stupid "spectrum" and get to know these people instead of assuming they're all babies who can't grow and abandoning them.

    • You should talk to a therapist about this attention seeking behavior

      • Okay. Hopefully RFK doesn't trap y'all in the world of "if you don't like it, get over it". I got that label out of my life so it's not my problem. Maybe I shouldn't care about those who couldn't be as lucky and couldn't be saved.

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