Even that isn’t a choice that most of us actively make – as the act of Masking often becomes subconscious and is enforced upon us. Forcing a paradigm shift

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Our responsibility as the organisation that ran Mendip House is to be as open as possible when things go wrong, to take action to fix this and to continue to listen to autistic people, families and other providers about what we need to do differently. We have tried to do all these things. Autism, Identity and Me A Professional and Parent Guide to Support a Positive Understanding of Autistic Identity There are parents who are driven to make their children ‘normal’ at all costs and it’s all because of this negative narrative, dripped down from above, dripped down by those whose jobs exist because of it, whose fortunes are dependent on a continuous cycle of parents, wave after wave, who blame themselves for their children’s ‘wrongness’ and are desperate to do anything to right them, completely unaware that they have effectively fallen for a marketing ploy to make them think that way.

We fear for our environment, the poisoning of ‘our’ world, the self-destructive cycle we are trapped in that’s causing it.

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These are the things I find hard, these are the things I find easy, and these are the ways I was harmed. If you think difference, you think positively; you focus on what they can do. What it doesn’t mean is that the person does not need support, only that you are making their strengths a priority. Autism, Identity and Me: A Professional and Parent Guide to Support a Positive Understanding of Autistic Identity 1st EditionAn Autistic Identity is integral to our well-being, physically and mentally, to our whole selves. Yet we are made to feel as though we have to suppress that. To go further we are actively told that our identity is wrong and broken. So we Mask and create and build new ones, false ones, imperfect replicas of ourselves. When this is just a minuscule handful of examples of the abuse, oppression and subjugation handed out to Autistic adults and children every single day. Self prejudice driven by language. Language which is driven from the top of the chain, to the bottom. Forced Segregation exists for those of us who cannot Mask and hide within Society. It is a genuine thing. If you feel negative about something then you will do your utmost to resolve it. You want to change it. So you look around for ways to do that.