There's arguments that it's a disease, a disability, that people with mental disabilities should be "taken out into the woods." There's even arguments for such as that it's a great mystery. Call me crazy, but how about this idea: "Just a different way the brain is wired, and it's up to the individual to have the desire to patch up the wiring, to make it work period." That's how I did it, and I'm still patching up wiring. The "software" is there, it's just the "hardware" that needs the bugs sorted out.
Take for example the Cadillac V8-6-4 ( http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/05/02/cars-of-futures-past-1981-cadillac-v-8-6-4/ ). "Variable Displacement" is an idea where you "shut off" cylinders in certain situations to make better fuel economy. Now in wide-spread use, it was Cadillac who brought it to the masses (this idea wasn't their's though, the Enger V-12 had a crude version of this in the Nineteen-Teens: http://www.hemmings.com/hcc/stories/2009/04/01/hmn_feature5.html ).
(Source: Hemmings/oldcarbrochures.com)
Cadillac's computer system for it wasn't the greatest. What do you expect from 1980's computers in cars. The system couldn't keep up with all the various driving conditions. Today, the variable displacement systems can keep up, but none were as sophisticated. For once Caddy did something genius, rather than be a dumb lump of iron. Sure it didn't work, but what inventions and innovations do the FIRST time they're tried en mass.
So where does a failed car engine play in to being like Autism? The far past (the Enger V-12), was like the early days. The Caddy blunder, can be akin to the first mass research and understandings from the 1980's through the mid 2000's (huge shortcomings there!), and the wide range use, the better yet somewhat hazy understanding of Autism we have.
For me, my Autism isn't who I am, it is part of what makes me me. I don't let it rule my life, it's just there, the wiring of my brain, part of the operating system. Patches both in Software and Hardware have to be made, but at the end of the day, Autism isn't me entirely, just a part. Comparing myself to neuro-typical society, I pass like anybody else really. Comparing myself to other Autistic people, I'm not too sever as other cases I've seen (and I've seen my share, believe me.). If you were to compare me to cars, think a Packard from 1955 or 1956 (even count show cars if you'd like). Way more advanced than the contemporary Lincolns and Cadillacs. Compare me to a computer, think somewhere in the Windows department, adapted to a 1960's style Super Computer, when most are Apples or such.
At the end of the day, we're all human though. We eat the same (in through the mouth), put our shorts/trunks/panties on the same (one leg at a time), our blood is the same color (last time I checked, it was red), and we all share the same world (which some are trying to destroy to be "green"; see my last two blog posts before this one!), which was not Men for Mars, or Women for Venus, but good o'l Planet Earth, Third Planet, Sol System, the Milky Way Galaxy! I've got class soon, so here, to anybody that thinks Autistic, or any other type of person are not so great, here's some food for thought:
And for those who doubt my take on all of this... I'll just head the other way, and this is all you'll see:
(Source: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2021/1574589978_41b30112d1.jpg?v=0)
That's the end of my Soap Box today. Thanks for Reading! :)
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