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Just like anyone else.</p> </div>  <div id="content">  <div id="main"><div id="main2"> <h2 class="date-header">Tuesday, October 16, 2007</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="7705200383497707027"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> We are the stars of the firing line </h3> <div class="post-body"> <div> <div style="clear:both;"></div>Way back when I first found the internet incarnation of autism related matters, one of the first blogs I found and read all the way through was leftbrain/rightbrain.<br /><br /><a href="http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/">Well.</a><br /><br />To say I'm angry on Kevin and Megan's behalf is an understatement. I'm angry and, to a degree, I'm frightened.<br /><br />No clue what else there is to say, really.<br /><br /><small><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P-L4eswgo8">Title source</a></small><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </div> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Mat at <a href="http://just-like-anyone.blogspot.com/2007/10/we-are-stars-of-firing-line.html" title="permanent link">10/16/2007 07:53:00 AM</a></em> <a class="comment-link" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/7705200383497707027"location.href=https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/7705200383497707027;>346 comments</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1380168333"><a style="border:none;" href="https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=28173247&postID=7705200383497707027&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Wednesday, July 25, 2007</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="1704630733679022410"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> I blow the dust off my guitars </h3> <div class="post-body"> <div> <div style="clear:both;"></div>There is no one reading this and I never post, and that's fine. Right?<br /><br />Anyway.<br /><br /><a href="http://blog.silive.com/advanceupdate/2007/07/autistic_boy_not_welcome_in_mu.html">You've probably mostly seen this by now. But.</a><br /><br /><i>"Ryan's not going to know why he can't go back there, and that's sad, because he loved to go there," his father said.</i><br /><br />Yes. He is going to know why he can't go back there. Maybe not right now, but he is going to know. The only real question is whether he's going to parse that reason as 'Because I'm a fuckup' or as 'Because that dude's an asshole'.<br /><br />And I have my personal bet out for that one, as well.<br /><br />Not that I'd have reason to know or to feel way too effected by this one.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG1Pbdj5UW41JTBfkx7HfBqPJ6kRmo3-mrzTr4nDdfyTuzhzBrdwqzi2XnilzlGoi02r3fEEjoROUmoLKtzP9PmrTeKaLpZKFbPJMM0mwbB_9dPgZwBOj6k0NpPpjEpyRFXC6m/s1600-h/Image278.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG1Pbdj5UW41JTBfkx7HfBqPJ6kRmo3-mrzTr4nDdfyTuzhzBrdwqzi2XnilzlGoi02r3fEEjoROUmoLKtzP9PmrTeKaLpZKFbPJMM0mwbB_9dPgZwBOj6k0NpPpjEpyRFXC6m/s320/Image278.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091094905021646978" /></a><br /><br /><small>Title: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wk6tjSVJgg">Smashing Pumpkins - Eye Of the Mourning</a></small><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </div> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Mat at <a href="http://just-like-anyone.blogspot.com/2007/07/i-blow-dust-off-my-guitars.html" title="permanent link">7/25/2007 07:26:00 AM</a></em> <a class="comment-link" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/1704630733679022410"location.href=https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/1704630733679022410;>1 comments</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1380168333"><a style="border:none;" href="https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=28173247&postID=1704630733679022410&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Wednesday, June 06, 2007</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="614220034273408354"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> Black and White are all I see, in my infancy </h3> <div class="post-body"> <div> <div style="clear:both;"></div>I dislike 'neurotypical' as an opposite for 'autistic'.<br /><br />I don't dislike the word, though, I dislike that particular sloppy usage. Too narrow/broad, really. It's not like there's 'autistic' and then there's 'normal' any more than there's 'straight' and then there's 'gay'. Except even more, because there are a lot of spectra* involved in the idea of not being 'typical'. My OCD friends aren't typical, my ADHD brother isn't typical, someone with brain damage isn't typical, but they aren't autistic, either.<br /><br />(Okay, the middle listed one may be slightly BAPpy. Work with me, here.)<br /><br />I think it's a useful category, certainly, but I think it's used far too narrowly. Which, actually, also spreads to some of my issues with a lot of the autistic movement, especially from the Aspie side of the equation. Too narrow.<br /><br />I've seen people say things like 'I'm autistic, not mentally ill.' and always want to ask them 'Do you want a prize?' I'm both, and more. What's your point? Is that supposed to make me worth less than you?<br /><br />I thought that was pretty much what I'd signed up over here to fight?<br /><br />Any revolution which is supposed to be fighting for the rights of just-us-people isn't exactly one I want to be standing in. I'm not comfortable throwing non-transitioning trans* folk, or the genderqueer, or even the long-suffering crossdressers off the boat, either, for the record, since it's been too long since I drew in my other little revolution.<br /><br />There's a wide spread between cis* and trans*, and a lot of ways to not fall in the first category. There's a long spread between autistic and NT, and a lot of ways to not fall in the second category. And I prefer to try to find ways to show and appreciate and, yes, celebrate that immense diversity, than to attempt to compress it into a black-to-white spectrum.<br /><br />So I don't like NT-vs.-Autistic.<br /><br /><small>Title from: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTvwcLylZzs">Tool - Lateralus</a></small><br /><br /><small>*Until literally five minutes ago, if you asked me about this word, I would have told you the plural of 'spectrum' was 'spectrums'. Thank you, Firefox spellcheck and google!</small><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </div> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Mat at <a href="http://just-like-anyone.blogspot.com/2007/06/black-and-white-are-all-i-see-in-my.html" title="permanent link">6/06/2007 11:21:00 AM</a></em> <a class="comment-link" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/614220034273408354"location.href=https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/614220034273408354;>0 comments</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1380168333"><a style="border:none;" href="https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=28173247&postID=614220034273408354&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Thursday, May 24, 2007</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="3203123580900994428"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> I'm tired of giving a reason... </h3> <div class="post-body"> <div> <div style="clear:both;"></div>Why was I born autistic?<br /><br />Because I was.<br /><br />Why am I trans*?<br /><br />Because I am.<br /><br />I'm seeing the former running around, of late and, really, why DO I need to give a reason. I was not born to teach you any lessons. Sorry. I'm not around to let anyone hold to humility, I am not here for you. I'm not an inspiration, I'm not your demon, I'm me in all my lovely fuckedness.<br /><br />Really, though, what's the undertone of that question? 'All things have a reason, and I can't see this having any virtue in and of itself, so the reason must be something secret and occult, something I have to prise out from the world.' <br /><br />No. <br /><br />I refuse to think like that.<br /><br />Some things are their own reason. I am my own reason.<br /><br />Why was I born autistic?<br /><br />Someone's gotta be.<br /><br />Why was I?<br /><br />Because my dad's pretty aspie, my grandpa was pretty Aspie, and there are any number of people running around the old family tree who've got the traits coming out of their ears, and the genes just hit me just right.<br /><br />Why not?<br /><br />I especially dislike the bits that say 'I was born like this to learn a lesson!' both from the autistic side and from the trans side. Look, that implies reincarnation, because what's the point of learning a lesson only this one time? And if I've been reincarnated, then this life, hard as it is? Fucking Club Med vacation between the ones where I starved to death at four or died from some easily treatable disease or choked to death on dirty water.<br /><br />Not that I really believe in reincarnation.<br /><br />Also, hi, I'm still alive.<br /><br /><small>Title from: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDg9TmsqUPQ">Manic Street Preachers - The Masses Against the Classes</a><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </div> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Mat at <a href="http://just-like-anyone.blogspot.com/2007/05/im-tired-of-giving-reason.html" title="permanent link">5/24/2007 04:56:00 AM</a></em> <a class="comment-link" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/3203123580900994428"location.href=https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/3203123580900994428;>0 comments</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1380168333"><a style="border:none;" href="https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=28173247&postID=3203123580900994428&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Sunday, February 25, 2007</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="117244668271339228"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> Been thinking little thoughts... </h3> <div class="post-body"> <div> <div style="clear:both;"></div><small>Scrawled in my notebook while I was on the train the other night</small><br /><br />I don't dislike the hand I was dealt, I'm not angry at it and I don't hate it. I just want my pretty little pair of fours here to be worth something, even if it means rewriting the rules of the game.<br /><br />And if you think I just admitted to being dealt a bad hand with that 'pair of fours' thing, ask yourself this: who the fuck said we were playing poker, anyway?<br /><br /><small>Title from: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6cS26oEX64">Bloc Party - Little Thoughts</a></small><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </div> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Mat at <a href="http://just-like-anyone.blogspot.com/2007/02/been-thinking-little-thoughts_25.html" title="permanent link">2/25/2007 06:33:00 PM</a></em> <a class="comment-link" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/117244668271339228"location.href=https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/117244668271339228;>0 comments</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1380168333"><a style="border:none;" href="https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=28173247&postID=117244668271339228&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Sunday, February 18, 2007</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="117183508001070156"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> Yeah, I'll bet you wish </h3> <div class="post-body"> <div> <div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/magazine/18autistic.t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&oref=slogin">Her Autistic Brothers</a> from the New York Times.<br /><br />There's a list of things that I sometimes wonder that I've never actually come out and asked the people in question. The main one is that every time I see these things, I wonder if my brother sometimes wished or wishes he had another sibling instead of me.<br /><br />Not that I'm clear on that front. When he was on the way, I wanted a younger sister and, according to family legend, one of the first things I asked about him was if we could trade him for a girl.<br /><br />But just in general, I've never asked if he wished he had a non-autistic sibling, or a completely straight/cisgendered sibling, or whatever.<br /><br />Mostly because I'm pretty certain that, if I asked straight out and he was being honest in his response, his answer would be 'yes'. Not because we don't love each other, just because life was sometimes difficult. Or maybe because I'm constantly being told that that's what siblings of disabled and/or weird kids wish. Or maybe both.<br /><br /><small>Ryan Adams, Two Black Roses</small><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </div> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Mat at <a href="http://just-like-anyone.blogspot.com/2007/02/yeah-ill-bet-you-wish.html" title="permanent link">2/18/2007 04:35:00 PM</a></em> <a class="comment-link" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/117183508001070156"location.href=https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/117183508001070156;>3 comments</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1380168333"><a style="border:none;" href="https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=28173247&postID=117183508001070156&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    <h2 class="date-header">Tuesday, January 23, 2007</h2>  <div class="post"><a name="116957695595202245"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> As long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it.... </h3> <div class="post-body"> <div> <div style="clear:both;"></div>Surgical and chemical transition from female to male primarily involves three things. Mastectomy, hormonal doses and the amazingly non-specific term of 'bottom surgery' which can encompass anything from hysterectomy to phalloplasty. (Many FTMs don't choose phalloplasty for a number of reasons, mostly related to the current relative crudity of the operation and the hopes that it will become less...crappy.)<br /><br />'Ashley's treatment', as far as I can tell, involves three things. 'Removal of breast buds' i.e. mastectomy, hormonal doses and hysterectomy.<br /><br />Ashley has never asked for her treatment, but has any number of people willing to argue that her parents have the right to do it to her.<br /><br />I have asked for mine, and met any number of people willing to argue that, due to my autism (though they qualify their statements. Oh, people are masters of qualification!) I can't possibly know enough to know that I want this.<br /><br />There you go, then. Twisted consensuality. You can have done to you. You cannot do. We know better. We choose for you.<br /><br />God forbid you get the idea you control your own body and destiny. Who knows where that leads?<br /><br /><small>The Clash - Know Your Rights</small><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </div> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by Mat at <a href="http://just-like-anyone.blogspot.com/2007/01/as-long-as-youre-not-dumb-enough-to.html" title="permanent link">1/23/2007 01:19:00 PM</a></em> <a class="comment-link" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/116957695595202245"location.href=https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/28173247/116957695595202245;>0 comments</a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1380168333"><a style="border:none;" href="https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=28173247&postID=116957695595202245&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div>    </div></div>   <div id="sidebar"><div id="sidebar2">  <div id="profile-container"><h2 class="sidebar-title">About Me</h2> <dl class="profile-datablock"> <dd class="profile-data"><strong>Name:</strong> <a rel="author" href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/08157110032181571303"> Mat </a></dd> </dl> <p class="profile-link"><a rel="author" href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/08157110032181571303">View my complete profile</a></p></div>  <h2 class="sidebar-title">Links</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.autism-hub.co.uk/">Autism Hub</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.nme.com/">NME.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/">P. 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