Visual Vox is dedicated to widening the world’s understanding of what it’s like to live as an autistic/aspergian person in the neurotypical world. It’s dedicated to showing how those of us who are on the autistic spectrum are, in fact, human beings with intact souls and the capacity for reason and cognition… and mind.
I’m autistic, not defective. I’m just so different from most neurotypical people, that they cannot get their heads around what makes me different… and what makes me human. I live in a parallel universe that is perfectly fine, thank you very much. I’m quite happy, actually, and the fact that “experts” describe people like me as having my soul snatched away, or being unable to have a theory of mind, just makes me nuts.
Not to flay Simon Baron-Cohen, but dude – I do have a mind!
And Dr. Kartzinel — I do have a soul, thank you very much.
I mean… come on!
Anyway, before I get all worked up about this, I just want to say that this blog is for educational purposes. I’ll be posting my writings here, as well as news of my books and my podcasts. I’m a writer — I’ve been writing in seclusion for over 30 years, showing my work to precious few people. Now, it’s time to bring it out into the light and shed a little more en-light-enment on this very charged subject.
I am autistic.
And I am human.
I’m really quite brilliant in my own ways.
The fact that most others can’t see my light doesn’t mean it’s not there, any more than the fact that we cannot see air means there is no such thing.
And I am quite happy with my life as it is.
