As far as I am concerned, if someone does display the traits that get labeled as Autism / Aspergers, then it just means that they will not become a Muggle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggle
I call them Muggles, but everyone else calls them Neuro Typicals. John Robison calls them Nypicals. These persons become part of the herd. Not a desirable condition at all. Maybe liberation from mother love is an evolutionary necessity? Otherwise you will always be Das Last Man. Maybe the kind of mother love that makes one a Nypical is just neuroticism.
That there really is some sort of a clinical condition, as far as I can see, is caused by:
1. Parents, particularly middle class parents who have children so that they can use them. People in pre-industrial societies do not intentionally set about to have children. But the industrial middle class does not admit that it actually has choices, it lives a reactionary life as it lives in Bad Faith.
2. Age segregated school system, which has always been designed to enforce social conformity with bullying. One room school houses and independent study do not do this, and in rural France these work much better.
3. White Coats, these guys help defend the parents, give them further power over the child by placing a label on the child.
Here, I just happen to have this with me:
Beyond Conflict, Peter R. Breggin, 1992
page 45
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The original studies on children suffering from infantile autism, a severe state of withdrawal, identified their parents as typically emotionally cold and unable to relate (Eisenberg and Kanner, "Early Infantile Autism, 1943-1955." In Charles Reed, Irving Alexander, and Silvan Tomkins, Psychopathology: A source Book, 1958). Often these parents encouraged their children to do without human contact, attention, and loving support. It was then no surprise that these youngsters went on to treat other people as if they did not have human qualities, often banging into them or staring through them as if they were inanimate objects. While modern biopsychiatry has tried to dismiss these early studies and to claim that autism is genetic or biological, they have no substantial evidence to support their claims (reviewed in Breggin, Toxic Psychiatry, 1991).
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So it is just like as it was with Freud. He found that he could advance his career much more effectively when he turned against his patients. First he had said that they had been sexually molested. This did not go over well at all. Then he changed and said that they were imagining it. Some thing with Autism. First the white coats said the parents caused it. But they have done much better advancing themselves as a profession by exonerating the parents and saying that there really is some sort of a "disorder" within the child.
And it is no different with all therapists either. They want you to "heal". Well what this means is that there is to be no redress. Their job is to convince you that the problem lies entirely within you. So you either have to deny the abuse, or you will be living with a stigmatized identity forever. Anyone who claims to be abused, but who does not act, is always going to be looked upon with scorn, pity, and contempt. And this is how it should be too! If you claim to be abused, but yet you do nothing to in anyway support redress, then I also look at you with scorn, pity, and contempt. I don't even want to know you. I certainly don't want to talk with you!
The other alternative is to retake you social and civil standing. The way to do this is to find comrades and then avenge the abuse. Inflict consequences on other people. It makes no difference if your parents are living or dead, or if you grew up in foster care. You still live in a world where middle class people have children so that they can use them, and then they blame it on the child. The children are not able to act. So it should be the adult survivors who act. It has to be. But so long as the survivors keep letting therapists talk them down, nothing will ever happen.
No therapist, not even Peter Breggin, would ever go along with redress. So instead, you are supposed to live in the very small social space which has been left for you, and never retake what should have been your's by right.
So if everyone is going to listen to therapists, I could do quite well. I could walk down a busy street and start knifing people in the belly and taking their wallets. I could do this because I would know that all these imbeciles are going to do is go to their doctors and seek healing.
This is how it goes with parental child abuse today. The survivors are not willing to even try to do anything about it, except to cry on the couch and punch pillows in the therapists office. They have been convinced that the problem lies within them, and that it has nothing to do with the outside world.
Let me tell one story I have always been impressed with, a story of school bullying. I was a high school senior. There was a sophomore named C. Kids were picking on him something terrible. It was happening in the hallways, and especially in one industrial arts class. Someone was even going so far as to declare a "hitting contest" on C., and keep track on the blackboard of how many times people were able to hit him.
Of course the teachers were very ineffective, because they had also been socialized in such environments, and so they went along with it.
Then something happened, C.'s parents went, not to a psychotherapist, but to a lawyer. He wrote a letter and had it delivered to the school board by Registered Mail. He explained that teasing someone as a group is hazing, and that this is illegal. Then there were words to make them understand that if there is to be another communication, it will be the complaint they are served with to initiate a lawsuit.
Wow, the whole staff jumped into action. The kids doing the hazing and hitting were given a serious talking to and threatened with removal from that industrial arts class, and maybe from school entirely. Teachers were out in the hallways at passing time. That industrial arts teacher was now all of a sudden all places at all times.
Before it was, "Well boys will be boys" and "C. needs to learn how to defend himself". But after the letter on the attorney's stationary, the teachers were ordered to act, and so they did.
The kids doing the hazing and hitting really did not change, except that they finally saw what they needed to see, that the adults would finally act. But otherwise they were the same as they always were. The real problem always was with the teachers and the administrators. These are the people who were scared by the attorney's letter. These are the people who changed.
I was friendly with C.'s older brother. In they years after high school, this brother and the father would build a Bradley GT.
So from this older brother I had gotten some impression of what the parents were like. Now decades later I still remain impressed with them over their handing of this incident.
That industrial arts teacher should not have told us about the attorney's letter. But he did.
Becoming Other
Freedom to Express, where the child is defended from its parents
http://freedomtoexpress.freeforums.org/index.php
Exploited Children United, home page
http://theexploitedunited.onlinewebshop.net/
Joe Bonamassa Live at The North Sea Jazz Festival 2007 Full Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTw0-rx_nfI