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ms-jpq / GayColour your text / terminal to be more gay. 🏳️🌈
alexwlchan / Asexual🖤💜 Asexual Pride in GitHub repository languages
stephfuchs / Queer Flags As SvgThis repository includes the SVG data for queer flags. As extra there will also be the (straight) ally flag.
KamilSJaron / Genomic Features Of Parthenogenetic AnimalsA project for gathering and re-analysing all published asexual genomes
gcosma / TAGATAGA: Tabu Asexual Genetic Algorithm Embedded in a Filter/Filter Feature Selection Approach for High-dimensional Data
Prova932 / 10 Facts About Autism That Everyone Should KnowAutism means that a person develops in a different way and has problems with communication and interaction with other people, as well as unusual behaviors such as repetitive motions or enthusiasm for very narrowly specialized interests. However, this is only a clinical definition, and this is not the most important of what you need to know about autism. So ... what does an ordinary person need to know about autism? There are a lot of misconceptions, important facts that people do not even know about, and several universal truths that are always ignored when it comes to disability. So, let's list them. 1.Autism is diverse. Very, very diverse. Ever heard the saying: "If you know one autistic person, do you know ... only one autistic person"? It's true. We like completely different things, we behave differently, we have different talents, different interests and different skills. Gather a group of autistic people and look at them. You will find that these people are as much different from each other as neurotypical people. Perhaps, autism differ from each other even more. Every autistic person is individual, and you can not make any assumptions about him only on the basis of his diagnosis, except as "Probably this person has problems with communication and social interaction." And, you see, this is a very general statement. 2. Autism does not define a person's personality ... but it is still a fundamental part of our being. Someone kindly reminded me of the missed second item on this list, so I just added it! I always miss something ... especially if it's about something like "If it's written that it's about a list of ten items, then there should be ten points." The thing is that it's difficult for me to perceive the whole picture, and instead I constantly focus on details like "Did I make a spelling mistake?" If I no longer had a pervasive developmental disorder, I would have been diagnosed with impaired attention like ADHD - in my head I have not only autism. In fact, autism is just one of many phenomena, and most of them are not diagnoses. I am an autistic, but I have huge problems with organizing my actions and switching to a new task, which usually happens in people with ADHD. I am well read, but there are serious problems with arithmetic, but not with the score. I'm altruist, introvert, I have my own opinion on any occasion, and I adhere to moderate views in politics. I'm a Christian, a student, a scientist ... How much everything comes in identity! However, autism is a little coloring, as if you are looking at something through the colored glass. So if you think that I would be the same person without my autism, then you are unequivocally mistaken! Because how can you remain the same person, if your mind starts to think differently, learn differently, and you will have a completely different view of the world? Autism is not just an additive. This is the very basis for the development of the personality of an autistic person. I have only one brain, and "autism" is just a label that describes the features of the work of this brain. 3.Having autism does not make your life meaningless. Disability generally does not mean that your life is meaningless, and in this respect, autism is not different from any other disability. Constraints in communication and social interaction, coupled with learning difficulties and sensory problems that are inherent in us, do not mean that the life of an autistic person is worse than the life of a neurotypical person. Sometimes people assume that if you have a disability, then your life is by definition worse, but I think they are just too inclined to look at everything from their own point of view. People who have been neurotic in their entire lives begin to think about what they would feel if they suddenly lost their skills ... while in reality one must imagine that they never had these skills, or that they have developed other skills and a different view of the world. Disability itself is a neutral fact, not a tragedy. With respect to autism, tragedy is not autism itself, but related prejudices. It does not matter what restrictions a person has, autism does not prevent him from being part of his family, part of his community and a person whose life has an intrinsic value. 4.Autistic people are capable of love to the same extent as any other people. Love for other people does not depend on the ability to speak fluently, understand the expression of strangers or remember that when you try to make friends with someone, it's better not to talk about wild cats for an hour and a half without stopping. Perhaps we do not know how to copy the emotions of other people, but we are capable of the same compassion as all the others. We just express it differently. Neurotics are usually trying to express sympathy, autistics (at least those that look like me, as I said - we are very different) are trying to fix a problem that initially upset the person. I see no reason to think that one approach is better than another ... Oh, and one thing: although I am an asexual, among the people of the spectrum of autism I am in the minority. Autistic adults, with any form of autism, can fall in love, marry and have a family. A few of my autistic friends are married or go out on dates. 5.The presence of autism does not prevent a person from learning. Actually does not interfere. We grow, and we learn throughout life, just like any other person. Sometimes I hear people say that their autistic children "recovered". However, in fact, they only describe how their children grow, develop and learn in the right environment. They actually devalue the efforts and achievements of their children, writing off them for the last drug or other treatment. I have come a long way from a two-year-old girl, who was crying all day and night, constantly running around in circles and making violent hysterics from the touch of wool. Now I'm in college and I almost achieved independence. (I, true, still can not bear woolen cloth). In a good environment, with good teachers, training will be almost inevitable. This is the focus of research on autism: how best to teach us what we need to know about this world that is not fit for us. 6.The origin of autism is almost entirely genetic. The hereditary component of autism is about 90%, which means that almost every case of autism can be reduced to a certain combination of genes, be it the "botanist genes" that were transmitted from your parents, or they are new mutations that have arisen only in your generation. Autism has nothing to do with the vaccinations you have been given, and it has nothing to do with what you eat. Ironically, despite the arguments of the opponents of vaccines, the only proven non-genetic cause of autism is the congenital rubella syndrome that occurs when a pregnant woman (usually not vaccinated) gets rubella. People, do all the necessary vaccinations. They save lives - millions of people who die every year from diseases that could be prevented by vaccines would agree. 7.Autistic people are not sociopaths. I know, probably, you do not think so, but still it should be repeated again. "Autism" is often associated with the image of a person who absolutely does not care about the existence of other people, while in reality, it's just a communication problem. We do not care about other people. Moreover, I know several autists who are so panicky about accidentally saying "something is wrong" and touching other people's feelings that as a result they are constantly shy and nervous. Even nonverbal autistic children show the same attachment to their parents, which is not autistic. In reality, autistic adults commit crimes much less often than neurotype’s. (However, I do not think that this is due to our innate goodness.) In the end, it is very often a crime - it is social activity). 8.There is no "epidemic of autism". In other words: the number of people diagnosed with autism is increasing, but the total number of autistic people remains the same. Studies conducted among adults show that the level of autism among them is the same as among children. With what are all these new cases related? Simply with the fact that now diagnoses are also made in milder forms of autism, including due to the recognition that Asperger syndrome is autism without speech delay (previously the diagnosis was not raised if you could speak). In addition, they began to include people with mental retardation (as it turned out, in addition to mental retardation, they very often have autism). As a result, the number of diagnoses "mental retardation" decreased, and the number of diagnoses "autism", respectively, increased. Nevertheless, rhetoric about the "autism epidemic" had a positive effect: thanks to it we learned about the real prevalence of autism, and we know that it is not necessarily heavy, and we know exactly how it manifests, which allows children to receive the necessary support from an early age. 9.Autistic people can be happy without healing. And we are not talking about some second-rate happiness on the principle of "better something than nothing." Most neurotics (if they are not artists or children) will never notice the beauty in arrangement of cracks in the asphalt pavement, or how beautifully the colors are played on the spilled gasoline after the rain. They probably will never know what it's like to give up entirely to a particular topic and study everything about it as much as possible. They will never know the beauty of the facts that were brought into a certain system. They probably will never know what it's like to wave your hands with happiness, or what it's like to forget about everything because of the sensation of the cat's fur. In the life of autistics, there are wonderful aspects, as, most likely, they are in the life of neurotype’s. No, understand me correctly: this is a difficult life. The world is not adapted to the existence of autistic people, and autistic people and their families face strangely every day prejudices. However, happiness in autism is not reduced to "courage" or "overcoming". It's just happiness. You do not have to be normal to be happy. 1o. Autistic people want to be a part of this world. We really want this ... just on our own terms. We want to be accepted. We want to go to school. We want to work. We want to be listened to and heard. We have hopes and dreams of our future and the future of this world. We want to contribute. Many of us want to have a family. We differ from the norm, but it is diversity that makes this world stronger, not weaker. The more images of thinking, the more ways will be found to solve a particular problem. The diversity of society means that if a problem arises, we will have different minds at hand, and one of them will find a solution.
