Today is April 2nd, International Autism Day. It's a day of awareness. To me, enlightenment is creating interest where there is little. By interest I mean curiosity, an inner need to know, experience, understand or listen carefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1\u0161ho syna unschoolujeme, \u010do v praxi znamen\u00e1, \u017ee sa v u\u010den\u00ed riadi prim\u00e1rne vn\u00fatornou motiv\u00e1ciou. Ide za t\u00fdm, \u010do ho zauj\u00edma, na \u010do je zvedav\u00fd, kde c\u00edti potrebu spozna\u0165, pozorne si vypo\u010du\u0165, nie za t\u00fdm, \u010do je ro\u010dn\u00edku primeran\u00e9 a „m\u00e1 sa to“. Obdivujem jeho silu a jednozna\u010dnos\u0165. Vidno, \u017ee dok\u00e1\u017ee ma\u0165 z\u00e1ujem, hlbok\u00fd a zvedav\u00fd, m\u00e1 t\u00fa schopnos\u0165 a vytrvalo ju tr\u00e9nuje. No aj tak sa objavia situ\u00e1cie, kedy jeho z\u00e1ujmu, snahe pochopi\u0165 alebo empatizova\u0165 potrebujem pom\u00f4c\u0165. Napr\u00edklad, ke\u010f ho niekto nahnev\u00e1, alebo ke\u010f je nie\u010do d\u00f4le\u017eit\u00e9 pre n\u00e1s, a on mus\u00ed participova\u0165, aj ke\u010f nechce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know what definitely doesn't work in that case: informing.<\/strong>Information has no power over dislike and disinterest. It flies through your head without any response, like a clean shot. What can work in the short term is scaremongering, shaming or inducing remorse. Information has no power over dislike and disinterest. It flies through your head without any response, like a clean shot. What can work in the short term is scaremongering, shaming or inducing guilt.<\/strong> alebo vyvolanie v\u00fd\u010ditiek<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Something like \"even if it doesn't affect you, it might affect you and it will be too late, autism will take your child, your family and your finances.\" (Autism Speaks awareness campaign from the 90s)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or something like \"They are here among us, they are suffering, and you won't help them? won't you lend a helping hand? Aren't you ashamed?\" (communication standard in the topic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zaberie to, no z dlhodob\u00e9ho h\u013eadiska vyvolanie v\u00fd\u010ditiek, strachu alebo hanby naru\u0161\u00ed vz\u0165ah a vz\u00e1jomn\u00fa d\u00f4veru, \u010do v d\u00f4sledku vyvol\u00e1 e\u0161te v\u00e4\u010d\u0161\u00ed nez\u00e1ujem, vyblokovanie a odpor. \u010casom u\u017e nepom\u00f4\u017ee ani pritvrdi\u0165, odozva nepr\u00edde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What really works?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I won't please you it's laborious, but it's humanly possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Active mutual relationships. <\/strong>Not informing but sharing, speaking and listening, contact, interpersonal communication, everyday. Down here, among us, in the block, in the family, in the classroom, in the interest circle. We will not replace the creation of mutual relations with general information. That is why I consider community support and field work with them to be key. Wherever there is one of us, people on the spectrum, there is enlightenment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stereotypes and totems.<\/strong> here is such a thing as a useful line of propriety, crossing which we provoke the exact opposite of what we intended - dislike, disinterest, at best anger (it is better because it is active, albeit negatively). By creating a reasonable abbreviation of meaning, we create a premise for interest. He may or may not come, but we gave him a chance. And this is related to the next point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Art.<\/strong> Artistic means were created to convey an experience, a story, not just information. A film that I live with for a moment, a character that I empathize with, a story that touches me, a photo that makes me laugh or think, a dance that captivates me, a rhythm that moves me. No media campaign will do people on the spectrum as much a service as a single HBO series, such as Little Sheldon, will do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It works the same way in our family. Since I started with that, I will add that Otis gets caught up in something that we live by, just as we get caught up in what he lives by. We have a relationship. When a situation arises that his interest in another needs to be helped, we use abbreviations, stereotypes, simplifications, ideal visualizations, that is, something like \"totems\" that can be grasped and put his interest into. And finally, we watch stories, on YouTube, in games, movies, books, conversations with people, in music, we give ourselves the opportunity to perceive, feel, experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In\u0161pirovala ma moja zn\u00e1ma, Denisa, ktor\u00e1 je tie\u017e Aspergerka, v\u010dera zdie\u013eala kampa\u0148 zna\u010dky VANISH. D\u00e1vam v\u00e1m ju sem. Nie preto, \u017ee by dokonalo sp\u013a\u0148ala v\u0161etky menovan\u00e9 krit\u00e9ria, ale rob\u00ed p\u00e1r vec\u00ed dobre:<\/p>\n\n\n\n