There are Asperger adults who are wrongfully condemned into a prison constructed by the mental health industry. I don’t know a lot of people, so for me to know about what another Aspie woman has been through because of lacking knowledge about Aspergers tells me that there must be others who might end up spending the rest of their lives without ever getting to live free and happy.
Ms. Geneviere Einstein (only the name is fiction; the story is real) was captured by the social police (mental health) at age 13. For the next 30 or so years of her life, she was brainwashed into believing there was something wrong about her way of being. They succeeded in convincing Geneviere she was mentally insane. She voluntarily surrendered her body for medical experimentation as she faithfully returned to the clinics for evaluations and ‘treatments.’
All was not bad about these ‘visits.’ Geneviere learned how to act neurotypical. She had to. She had no choice. Her cost of keeping up the charades resulted in seasonal meltdowns which sent her back into the frying pan to absorb more pharmaceutical spices. This was her fate until her knight in shining armor came to the rescue. The sword truly is mightier than the pen. The books he gave her cut to the chase better than any organizational sword did. No, they weren’t psychology books. They were books on high level mathematics and science. These books were the evidence Geneviere needed so she could begin to see her true self for the first time in her life. She was NOT crazy after all — she was ’suffering’ from being brilliant while being convinced she was of ordinary intelligence gone mad.
How can this be when there are so many IQ tests? Easy, if you understand how the Aspie mind doesn’t shine under the neurotypical lighting in exam rooms. In simple terms, if you’re going to detect intelligence, then you’ve got to gear the equipment and environmental conditions to match what’s being tested.
The ability to discern being ‘had’ is not based on one’s IQ. The only protection from deception is truth. The less truth that you know, the more vulnerable you are. Too many people assume that the American Psychiatric Association, with its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders bible, can be trusted to know everything about human behavior well enough to be given authority over how someone lives her life. If anyone dares to question these ‘experts’ . . . well, I think I’ve said enough.
