{"id":1411,"date":"2006-03-16T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2006\/03\/through-the-looking-glass-2\/"},"modified":"2006-03-16T06:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T06:22:00","slug":"through-the-looking-glass-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/through-the-looking-glass-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the Looking Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/autismdiva.blogspot.com\/\">Autism Diva<\/a> clued me into this fantastic bit of &#8212; poetry, observation, what? &#8212; from the <a href=\"http:\/\/ballastexistenz.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/questions-for-neurotypicals-tongue-in.html\">Ballastexistenz blog<\/a>, from which I have pulled out what I think are the most poignant and mind-blowing bits:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Questions for Neurotypicals<\/p>\n<p>How have you learned to compensate for being nearly incapable of directly perceiving your surroundings?<\/p>\n<p>Surely you must miss the all-encompassing joy of simple perceptual experiences. Don&#8217;t try to tell me that all your canned, pre-filtered experiences of sunsets and the like hold a candle to watching a tiny spider crawl across the carpet or rubbing a fuzzy blanket on your face. Nobody would believe anything that ridiculous, you&#8217;re just trying to romanticize neurotypicality.<\/p>\n<p>How do you deal with being unable to perceive minds different from your own?  Doesn&#8217;t that limit you socially?<\/p>\n<p>Have you learned to make real conversation with strangers instead of just measuring them up socially and moving on?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here is my own send-up to all those who insist that autism is less than, that autistics can&#8217;t connect, and need to be fixed.  This, for those who don&#8217;t know, is Nat, my 16 year-old who has a pretty severe degree of autism, embracing, quite willingly, his teacher, Maureen:<br \/><center><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maj.com\/gallery\/zibredlektab\/momsstuff\/natmaureen.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maj.com\/gallery\/zibredlektab\/momsstuff\/natmaureen.jpg\"   \/><\/a><br \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autism Diva clued me into this fantastic bit of &#8212; poetry, observation, what? &#8212; from the Ballastexistenz blog, from which I have pulled out what I think are the most poignant and mind-blowing bits: Questions for Neurotypicals How have you learned to compensate for being nearly incapable of directly perceiving your surroundings? Surely you must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-mL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}