Oh, and btw, EquiisSavant, what do you hope to achieve here at I2? Sympathy seems to be a bit optimistic now, as people have been trying to help but you've refused to listen, telling everyone that they're so much higher-functioning than you are.
To me that's very arrogant. You don't know more about their difficulties than they know about yours.
Actually that's not entirely true cos your difficulties are everything you talk about.
No one has tried to help in the proper way to help a person with severe autism language deficits who is locked in; the only advice offered has been the social model for how non-locked-in autistics can be helped. Where is Amanda Bags ?? Or Carly ?? Oh, maybe you don't like them, just like some people here don't like me, because we are part of a sub-category of autism who are locked-in communicators and we talk about our plight.
I think what makes the wrong-social model advice offerers so mad (and you, as their friend), is the fact they were wrong. And THAT insulted them. Being wrong.
I never said I know more about their conditions, so don't put words I did not say in my mouth.
But I DO know the most important fact about their conditions that directly affects their ability to understand locked-in autistic communicators, and that is -- THEY are not similar locked in autistic communicators, or they would not have mis-understood any part of having such a terrible deficit.
It is not the kind of deficit you easily forget about or how extensive it is -- because if you have it you live each and every moment of every day in a neurotypical structured-society, confronting: every piece of print paper, every print paper form, print paper fax, print paper business card, print paper menu, print paper book, print paper newspaper, print paper parking garage ticket, every print paper contract, every print paper notice, every print or handwritten paper letter, every print paper chart, every print paper bank book ledger, every print paper sign posters, every print paper sale price tag, every print paper or on bottles/containers list of ingredients on food products, pesticides, and horse stuff, every print paper clothing size tag, every print paper "On-Sale Clearance" sign, every print paper test, etc etc -- then you would NOT fail to understand one thing of what communication obstacles you get put through every day of your life that are sheer TORTURE.
In don't know where you went to law school, but where I went to law school, correcting stereotypes, misconceptions, and misunderstandings of a persons autism condition and the barriers/obstacles to it that are imposed was not called "arrogance;" it was called Civil Rights.
