Comments on: Dealing with Autism and Cultural Stigmas http://www.aspieteacher.com/2009/07/dealing-with-autism-and-cultural-stigmas/ Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:30:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Catherine Neal http://www.aspieteacher.com/2009/07/dealing-with-autism-and-cultural-stigmas/#comment-366 Catherine Neal Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:01:58 +0000 http://www.aspieteacher.com/?p=1549#comment-366 It is strange to me how people deal with "different." When all "different" is, is another kind of normal. We spend our whole life trying to integrate the system and miss out completely on maturing into the individuals we were meant to be. I do not have AS, but I can tell you that our struggles are not all that different in that regard. My little six year-old came back from school today in tears because people made fun of her name. Her first name is French. She begged me to use her middle name (english) in school. To conclude, I would rather being different than near-sighted and ignorant. Wouldn't you? It is strange to me how people deal with “different.” When all “different” is, is another kind of normal. We spend our whole life trying to integrate the system and miss out completely on maturing into the individuals we were meant to be. I do not have AS, but I can tell you that our struggles are not all that different in that regard. My little six year-old came back from school today in tears because people made fun of her name. Her first name is French. She begged me to use her middle name (english) in school. To conclude, I would rather being different than near-sighted and ignorant. Wouldn’t you?

]]> By: Sharon daVanport http://www.aspieteacher.com/2009/07/dealing-with-autism-and-cultural-stigmas/#comment-299 Sharon daVanport Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:21:57 +0000 http://www.aspieteacher.com/?p=1549#comment-299 Thank you Sandy! You were a delight to have on the show. I am happy to see you were able to elaborate on the cultural stigmas in this blog post; something which we did not have a chance to discuss in length yesterday as we had planned. I will talk with you soon and be in touch via email. Again, thank you for being such a great guest. Give MollyPup hugs from the AWA :-] <abbr><em>Sharon daVanport’s last blog post..<a href="http://www.sharondavanport.com/2009/06/aspie-mom-chroniclesa-time-to-heal.html" rel="nofollow">Aspie Mom Chronicles...a time to heal</a></abbr></em> Thank you Sandy! You were a delight to have on the show. I am happy to see you were able to elaborate on the cultural stigmas in this blog post; something which we did not have a chance to discuss in length yesterday as we had planned. I will talk with you soon and be in touch via email. Again, thank you for being such a great guest. Give MollyPup hugs from the AWA :-]

Sharon daVanport’s last blog post..Aspie Mom Chronicles…a time to heal

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