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First, a social ground rule: I prefer NOT to be addressed as "Dr."  The reason I include the title in my profile is to help promote the truth of our collective intellectual firepower.  Second, a bit of history: I seem to have an entry in some kind of weird neurological trifecta, inasmuch as I was (1) born on the spectrum (Asperger--formally diagnosed nearly a half-century AFTER I was born), (2) developed epilepsy at around age 7 (after a lay teacher in a religiously and racially segregated school attempted to shake a perceived devil out of me), and (3) sustained a traumatic brain injury shortly after the Asperger diagnosis (as memory of the incident returned many months later, it became apparent that it was yet another example of violence against one who is different).  Third, a proclamation: neurotypicals need forgiveness.  Neurotypicals need forgiveness for the many trespasses that they long have visited upon us: trespassing either in the name of that fiction "normalcy" or because they fear themselves being perceived as different.  (It seems true of hatred that if one does not join those who hate--either in terms of what they hate, whom they hate, or how they hate--one becomes a target of hatred.)  Moreover, we are the ones who must forgive neurotypicals, if only to deny their offenses continuing power over our own lives.

By the way, I am a practicing clinician; one string of letters following my last name reads "BCBA" (Board Certified Behavior Analyst).  I will write more, in later posts, upon the harm of which helping professionals are capable.

Thanks for visiting.  God bless all, and Godspeed in the good work.

AsPieHD

 

Hey everyone the House of Representatives totally just passed a bill restoring the ADA... it's HR 3195, can be looked up at http://thomas.loc.gov.

It was needed because the ADA as it stands currently protects only people who are "substantially limited in a major life activity," or people who have a record of or are regarded as substantially limited in a major life activity. While this may sound fine, the Supreme Court had interpreted "substantially limited" and "major life activity" really strictly, such that in order to be substantially limited in an activity you had to basically not be able to do it at all, and a lot of lower courts were interpreting "major life activity" as not including communicating, thinking, concentrating, and interacting with others. This really hurt people with mental disabilities because those same courts would, for example see "speaking" as a major life activity, but not "communicating" or "interacting with others" (ableism, much?) so people who could talk but had serious social interaction issues weren't seen as disabled. It also hurt people with epilepsy, because hey, if you're unpredictably unconscious for a few seconds every day that's not substantially limiting because 99% of the time you're not unconscious, and people who mitigated the effects of mental or physical disabilities with medication or auxiliary aids or compensating techniques.

Overall, a whole lot of people with autism or asperger's would have found themselves excluded by the old ADA. I don't think the new version is perfect, because I would have gotten rid of "major life activity" talk altogether and they didn't include social interaction as one of the examples of major life activities (they did include thinking, communicating, and concentrating, and courts are still free to decide social interaction is also in there). But I do think it's a lot better. The House passed this bill by a landslide, which is great.

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