Peter Wynn
2 min readJul 12, 2022

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Agree. As an Australian, I actually had a bit of a laugh when you said that there are more autistics than Australians.

Australians are a paradoxical people, though, I believe. Why? Well, I very seldom agree with right-wing shock jock, Alan Jones, but before he was a shock jock, he was a speaker at a conference that my parents attended, and he said that Australians are notorious for supporting the underdog. If you have a three time Melbourne Cup winning horse and an old donkey that's weighed down, they will go for the old donkey. The paradox is, autistic people are marginalized, but Australians have Tall Poppy Syndrome, so if an Autistic person has a special talent, they don't say, "Hey, that person is marginalized, help them," they'll cut them down. I know, because I've had the experience. I remember, in my final year of high school, the Year Co-Ordinator said, "If someone in this year does something special, let me know." There were regular instances of, "So and so was selected for this football team," or, "So and so did well at a swimming carnival," but nobody ever said, "Peter Wynn did the Japanese Proficiency Test and passed, scoring 293/400."

I remember, in primary school, we had Spell-A-Thons, and I scored 100/100 in Year Three, and they had prizes for people who raised the most money, but they didn't say on assembly, "Now, for the people who got the highest number of words right. From Year Three, Peter Wynn, who scored 100/100."

An utopia for Autistic people would also not see wars caused, because everybody would say, "Okay, we need to have enough food for everybody," and Autistic people are not greedy.

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Peter Wynn
Peter Wynn

Written by Peter Wynn

Diagnosed with autism at 35. Explained a lifetime of difference.

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