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Yeah. I've just now realized the *other* reason the complaints against it irritated me.
"Oh, my autistic kid doesn't rock, nor spin, it's such a stereotype, etc, etc, etc"
*taps foot*
Here's the thing. Many autistic people do rock. And guess what? SO DO NTS. Cradles? Rocking chairs? Swings, rocking horses, see-saws, rock-a-bye expletive baby? Rocking is something NTs do all the time.
And they spin, too! They pick their kids up and twirl all around, holding them by the waist or the hands or a hand and a foot. And then kids and adults clamber to go on carosels, and merry-go-rounds. Sit-n-spins weren't invented just to cater to autistic kids, after all.
And yes, non-autistics spin objects, too - spinning tops and dreidel-dreidel-dreidel-I-made-you-out-of-clay and pinwheels and spirographs....
So this is a bad thing why exactly?
Autistic kids rock. So do all kids. It's what they do.
(And before you tell me that the difference is in degree, I *know*. That's not the point.)
I have another rant on playing coming right up.
"Oh, my autistic kid doesn't rock, nor spin, it's such a stereotype, etc, etc, etc"
*taps foot*
Here's the thing. Many autistic people do rock. And guess what? SO DO NTS. Cradles? Rocking chairs? Swings, rocking horses, see-saws, rock-a-bye expletive baby? Rocking is something NTs do all the time.
And they spin, too! They pick their kids up and twirl all around, holding them by the waist or the hands or a hand and a foot. And then kids and adults clamber to go on carosels, and merry-go-rounds. Sit-n-spins weren't invented just to cater to autistic kids, after all.
And yes, non-autistics spin objects, too - spinning tops and dreidel-dreidel-dreidel-I-made-you-out-of-clay and pinwheels and spirographs....
So this is a bad thing why exactly?
Autistic kids rock. So do all kids. It's what they do.
(And before you tell me that the difference is in degree, I *know*. That's not the point.)
I have another rant on playing coming right up.
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Date: 2005-09-14 07:32 pm (UTC)Anyway, the outside world is only going to notice that one kid does it more, or at different times.
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Date: 2005-09-14 07:57 pm (UTC)We could try asking in our LJs, and get the information from "our" NTs, anyway. :)
One of the reasons I consider it important is because one of the reasons NTs discourage "autistic behavior" is from their assumption that it serves the same purpose (or lack thereof) as when they do it. For example, it's the core between "fidgeting" (movements that generally indicate boredom and interfere with paying attention in NTs) and "stimming" (movements that indicate stress and *aid* in paying attention in ACs). Or staring away from the subject of attention, which in NTs indicates "my attention is elsewhere" but in ACs often indicates "I am shutting off one sense so I can rely on another" or another attention-focusing scheme.
Sorry, I'm rambling today...this is one of those cases where I know there's an important point to make, but I'm too tired/scattered to actually say it properly! :-p
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Date: 2005-09-14 08:56 pm (UTC)those aren't the only reasons NTs do those things...
Date: 2005-09-15 03:14 am (UTC)And I don't like to look people in the eye because it feels too intimate a lot of the time.
Re: those aren't the only reasons NTs do those things...
Date: 2005-09-15 03:15 am (UTC)Re: those aren't the only reasons NTs do those things...
Date: 2005-09-15 03:19 am (UTC)