Hmmmm, lets get this clear... I do not seek to eradicate Autism, nor am I bent on curing it.

I do, however, believe in helping those who want or need help if there are Autie friendly ways of doing that.

I noticed something that said declaring war on autism is declaring war on autistics.

There are many books coming out this year and next about co-morbid conditions. Agoraphobia, Social Phobia, Bipolar, OCD, Tourettes, Immune Deficiency are all things I choose to go to war on, meaning I won't let these things rob me of freedom, health, safety. Yet ALL of these things went undiagnosed under the label of Autism, so until I knew WHICH parts of my 'Autism' I wanted to bring into a manageable level, I saw myself at war with what others had diagnosed my 'Autism'. Am I at war with being sensing or mono in a multitrack interpretive world- no, never was. Am I at war with being right brain in a left brain world when everything tumbles and meaning falls out and I struggle to hold conscious thought.... NO, not at war with that either. Am I at was with the information processing differences I share with my grandmother and my father, the people I see as wonderful autie blessings to this world... NO. So to cite any person out of context without fully understanding what they really mean and assuming wrongly they are at war with autistics is absolutely not valid. I fight for the right of all Autie Spectrum people to celebrate their own natural reality. I have been one of the most vocal and out their people to stand up against the disrespect of forced conformity programs even 13 years ago before almost anyone had the internet. There is no person I've ever met or worked with who I haven't challenged the goals of changing that person where their condition is not clearly distressing TO THEM or threatening their own health or safety (such as untreated mood disorders and risk suicide or severe depression associated with severe anxiety or compulsive disorders).

At war?... what warrior does not see life as a series of battles and I am a warrior not because I am against Autism but because I am an artist and artists ARE passionate full on people and this drives us to express.

So if it is a crime to declare my own war on things which challenged my freedom, health and safety then lets hear the sentence. Perhaps, however, all I did was choose words that some others merely glossed over blinded by their own assumptions without fully understanding the wider context.

So on this strange night, a stranger among strangers, here is my sharing said the cat, then left.