I wonder is this type of situation what's behind some of these so-called success or miracle stories about children who supposedly overcame autism, allegedly chose to stop being autistic (as Raun Kahlil), CAN bilge about how there's a real child in there trapped in a shell of autism, etc., ad nauseum. The scams which have ruined the lives of so many autistics.
The autistic-behaving person, knowing he isn't wanted, departs the front and leaves a neurotypical-behaving person in charge.
Would it require a situation in which the brain is non-autistically hardwired -- this is why I said autistic-behaving -- so that the second person could behave neurotypically, with no trace of the autism left?
Or with an autistically-hardwired brain, the second person just imitates NT behaviour better than the first one (cf. Donna Williams, although as I underestand it she deliberately cultivated or created non-autistic selves). Other autistics would doubtless not be fooled for a minute.
I wonder if this happens maybe more often than we think. I know I'm rambling.
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I wonder is this type of situation what's behind some of these so-called success or miracle stories about children who supposedly overcame autism, allegedly chose to stop being autistic (as Raun Kahlil), CAN bilge about how there's a real child in there trapped in a shell of autism, etc., ad nauseum. The scams which have ruined the lives of so many autistics.
The autistic-behaving person, knowing he isn't wanted, departs the front and leaves a neurotypical-behaving person in charge.
Would it require a situation in which the brain is non-autistically hardwired -- this is why I said autistic-behaving -- so that the second person could behave neurotypically, with no trace of the autism left?
Or with an autistically-hardwired brain, the second person just imitates NT behaviour better than the first one (cf. Donna Williams, although as I underestand it she deliberately cultivated or created non-autistic selves). Other autistics would doubtless not be fooled for a minute.
I wonder if this happens maybe more often than we think. I know I'm rambling.
Still thinking this over.