EzraS wrote:
lostonearth35 wrote:
It's "I'm autistic", not "I have autism". And autism is not a disease like asthma or cancer.
I'm hungry. I have hunger. The first one is obviously correct.
I'm autistic.
I'm talented.
I'm smart.
I'm short.
I'm quite.
I'm curious.
I'm late.
I'm sure.
I'm sorry.
I have
a hunger.
I have autism.
I have talent.
I have smarts/a smartness.
I have a shortness.
I have a quietness.
I have curiosity.
I have a lateness.
I have sureness/assuredness/surety.
I have sorriness/sorrow.
It can all be altered and it only sounds proper depending on colloquialism/dialect and the connotation you wish to communicate.
In this case "I have autism" is implying control over a possession rather than ascribing self traits. It's illusory control, of course, because one cannot depossess it.
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10 Apr 2017, 1:56 am
