When the author was eight, he was sent to a boarding school because he could not speak. The first thing they did there was give him an oral intelligence test. With which he didn’t cooperate because he couldn’t speak.
After being regularly examined by psychologists for 40 years, at the age of 45 he was told by the justice that he is autistic.
It appears to be very easy to recognize autistic people. Autists, like predators, naturally only make eye contact when they have a conflict.
Between 1999 and 2013, it was not possible for normally gifted adults to be examined for autism at mental health institutions.
In 2006 I was lucky. The father of a mentally handicapped friend reported assault. At first I thought it was a typical case of gay discrimination, since this friend came to visit regularly for a year and a half, but we never got further than sitting shirtless on the couch together. It took some years before I found out that the father wanted to do me a favor.
The police officer who interrogated me thought it was not that bad and thought that it would be dismissed. The probation officer was surprised that there had been no discharge and surprised that I did not recognize myself as being nervous. He referred me to Forensic Psychiatric Center de Waag in The Hague. The psychotherapist there was also surprised that there was no dismissal and very surprised that autism had never been diagnosed before. “Because it’s so obvious with you!”
Do you want to know how obvious?
In 2018, I struck up a conversation with a woman in her early thirties in the hot tub of a sauna. Her boyfriend almost put on my flip flops as he got out of the hot tub and I made a comment to her. “No,” she replied, “he never knows where he leaves his things.” She followed him all day to tidy up his things. Then she asked on I was autistic. “Yes?” She said that as a psychologist she was researching autism in children and by the way I made eye contact could tell that I am autistic.
A psychologist in a hot tub in the sauna casually recognizes an autist
If you then know that from 1969 to 1999 I was treated for child abuse and the consequences of child abuse, then it is clear that something has gone wrong somewhere. In fact, in 1996 the psychologist who was treating me for the effects of child abuse casually commented that he could tell from the way I made eye contact that I had an abusive background. The internet is full of articles on how to recognize child abuse. But this psychologist turns out to be the only one in the world who can recognize an abusive background just by looking at their eyes.
By 2018, I had been researching the results of autism research for several years. Not only did I find it strange that I had received a diagnosis from the justice system. But the examination at the autism center also went very strange.
I’m quite curious. In the last forty years I have been examined by many doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, educators and other experts. In all parts of all examinations I always asked what it was for and always got a short answer. But not in this examination. The psychologist stared a little ahead, but refused to answer. I didn’t understand that and it really irritated me.
In 2008 I started researching the results of autism research. Fortunately, in the early nineties I did a propaedeutic phase of a counseling study. As a result, I have the knowledge needed to do this kind of research.
It soon became clear that the results of autism research are 100% based on discrimination and that there are serious errors in it. In particular, the theory for the diagnosis of Kanner autism contains such a serious flaw that many normally gifted children with the more severe form of autism, since the early 1970s, have been diagnosed with PDD NOS plus profound intellectual disabilities.
Justice has put me on the waiting list for the autism center and dismissed me.
In 2012 I ran into the friend again. After I accidentally helped his parents find out that their son was autistic in 2005, they thought maybe I was too. After the organization for mental health stonewalled them, they discovered that it was also possible to have the autism examination carried out through the judiciary.
Perhaps you can remember that Lèse-majesté was punishable in the Netherlands until a few years ago?
A newspaper reported in an article that if someone said “The king is a bastard.” then he could be sentenced to prison. But if he said “I think the king is a bastard.” then that was his opinion and in the Netherlands you have the right to express your opinion.
On this website I give my opinion about autism and institutions that deal with autists. This opinion is based on the research I did between 2008 and 2020 on the results of autism research.
If you are interested in this, I advise you to go to the library and check it out for yourself. Why the library? Because there you can read 80 year old books. Information sometimes disappears on the internet. This is the result of three phenomena: Sometimes because you have poorly bookmarked websites, sometimes because websites have been closed and sometimes because someone has forced Google through the courts to hide the information.
Many of the sources I have consulted in recent years are now gone. In particular, the many articles about Kanner autism, which I have read since 2007, now appear to have disappeared. But it is impossible to determine which of the three phenomena is responsible for this.
According to the articles I read about this in 2007, two forms of autism were discovered in the early 1940s. Mr. Asperger has found that gifted children sometimes behave strangely. people. Mr. Kanner has discovered that mentally handicapped children sometimes behave strangely. Then, somewhere in the sixties, it was discovered that the Kanner form also occurred in the normally gifted and highly gifted. In my impression, among the undiagnosed people, the Kanner autists had more problems than the Asperger autists. On the other hand, people with savant talents were usually Kanner autists.