Sheila Schoonmaker's Maiden Blog

You know things have gone wrong when advocates have no concern for the very people they act like they care about. This post shall specifically refer to some particular Asperger/Autism advocates.

I’ve already mentioned a couple of mega autism organizations that only a relatively few people know how corrupt they are.

Today, I’m going to tell about how I’ve been treated by a couple of more Asperger advocates. These characters are involved with running a school specifically for Asperger students. Based on my dealings at this point with them, I wouldn’t include them in the corrupt category. But, their disrespect and lack of caring should be exposed.

Hopefully, parents of young Aspie children will make wiser decisions about schooling by having a better awareness of what today’s society has come to. If you love your child, you will do all you can to choose homeschooling if at all possible.

Last April, I volunteered to construct a website (free of charge) for an Aspie school. It was known by them that I am an Asperger individual. I was given the impression that my web designing service would be greatly appreciated.

By the middle of May, the site was primarily finished. All that was needed was to transfer the files to the school’s domain and make some minor changes. I was told, “It looks great!”¹

Now it’s the middle of September and the files have been deleted. Why? Because I got tired of being ignored and getting ‘toyed with’ whenever I’d inquire about the hold up. I was never given the password required to transfer the files to their hosting company. If I had it, I would have gladly let them take over the site I made for them.

It’s not news to know we’re living in a time when you can’t believe what people tell you, but come on… neurotypicals acting as advocates for Aspies and stooping to such thoughtless treatment? People like that make more work for those who do care.

The worst part of all this is that it’s the Aspies who are labeled as having a disorder! What’s the disorder?…that we’re honest and don’t naturally play the games others do?

With all that I’ve been through in my life, idle words stand out like a sore thumb — but since I was looking for a new project to sink my teeth into for developing my skills higher, I decided to ignore my pride and enjoy what I could learn. What upsets me is remembering my childhood dealings with people and then thinking about what Aspie children now have to deal with! God help them, because they’re going to need it with the way society has become!

¹This particular individual overheard me telling someone else about how wrongly I was treated by another group of advocates over the past 1-2 years. This was on the same day the discussion to do their web site occurred. Coincidence? If that’s the case, what difference did that make? No difference = indifferent.

Postscript added later the same day — Little did I realize when I wrote this post I’d be inspired to write about NBC’s New ‘Community’ shortly afterward.

Postscript added on 3.5.10 — What I’ve said here in the above post are typical examples of what has amounted to being Too Many Wet Blankets.