I worked late today. This morning, listening to a tribute album to Spacemen 3, I started reading Devon Price's book, "Unmasking Autism". Soon, I found that this book must be a very actual, provoking one to me. After I read it until the end of the 1st chapter, I started thinking about autism itself, which must have been one of the complicated essences in me as an inner, personal root (probably, it's a sort of identity).
He (I need to be careful about using this pronoun to call this author because he is a so-called transgender person who once had to live as a woman) keeps on pointing out that various extreme stereotype stories can have colored OUR images/biases about autism. For example, generally, autistic people tend to have been described as very smart/brilliant/talented people, who also can show how they are great in their occupations (as students or workers).
He tries to divide the concept of autism into two types: male and female (I need to check out the original, accurate words because I'm reading it in the Japanese version!). Yes, it's really interesting. In my opinion, he seems to define male autism as a strong/massive one that has been colored by several media's too-pop (or too-catchy) stereotypes, like various "lonesome/isolated" hermits/geniuses as "The Good Doctor".
On the internet, I share my autistic life (or should I say "a life with autism"?). By that behavior, I want to tell how I can accept this world with this very strange ego. However, as you know I am male therefore I can tend to lose how female autistic people have to face their hardships, and even they can lose various opportunities that would have helped them. Even though there must be many more things I want to write about, I have to be quiet about them and keep reading this.
This afternoon, at my workplace the current job coach and I had a meeting about my job. Even though I only wanted to tell her about the troublesome event I had to experience a few days ago, she showed a strong interest in the stories about my own private territory, especially the "danshu" meeting. In addition to that, I told her about the English conversation class I have been enjoying. She seems a very nice person to me because she showed me infinite kindness and empathy.
