Can we drop the D?

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The horse-and-buggy is obsolete. Try using one as your primary means of transportation. In some places, like Amish country, they're still thriving. On the whole, relying on a horse-and-buggy isn't gonna work.

I'm glad some on the spectrum feel they're not disabled. Good for them. Their that minority of horse-and-buggy that can get by and even thrive in its niche situation. Reading through this website, most of us are clearly disabled or at a major disadvantage in life.

Having a “disability” doesn’t make one “less of a person.”

Additionally not sure why many in the autism community find it so difficult to acknowledge they have a medical disorder?

It seems many on here would rather de- humanize themselves by labeling themselves as a different human species or part Neanderthal DNA rather than a normal human with a disability caused by a scientifically unknown medical disorder.

Maybe they are oblivious to the dangers of de-humanizing? Maybe they need to see some old 30s clips of hitlers Germany to see what viewing people as anything other than human can lead to? No less it makes people easier to kill and others less bothered about them being killed.

Is acknowledging one is “not broken” but has a medical disorder so hard, doesn’t seem to be hard for other disabilities like schizophrenia or learning disabled why autistic people who are disabled by the condition and know there are things they are unable to do.

^ No.
Your cultures' context is strange IMO. It's not just you.


From where I came from, it is acknowledged both as a medical condition AND a state of being.
And both can be permanent or temporary -- identification is a choice.
There is no denial it is a disability nor it denies the benefit of being one.



In your culture -- autistic communities based in similar cultures -- it is polarized.

As much as you're baffled at people who thought autism is not a disability -- and those who don't would deny it...

I'm just as baffled why both groups do not understand that it is not a contradiction.

You speak of the medical and the social models.
But perhaps that's where the dichotomy lies within your's and other's of how it is taken into context -- the lack collective social concept to apply both at the same time and space.


This is not a disagreement to your view.
This is an acknowledgement that the polarization from where you came from exists.

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I really don't think something with 100+ genes associated with it is going to get a proper consensus on this type of topic. Some people may have certain issues that genuinely, 100% disable them, and some people would probably be able to get by with few ""accommodations" that wouldn't even be needed if society functioned a bit different and are not entirely disabled. It's a useless argument, and it's useless to try to dictate how other people feel about and refer to their autism.

Basically (just like spinal bifida):

There will be people who are severely disabled by autism.

There will be people who are hardly disabled by autism.

And there will be people who are somewhere n between the above.


This reflects what some people have said previously.

I'm very much an in- betweener with my set of disabilities.

Re earlier posts about the 'World genius directory'. The owner of the site has openly admitted that his WIT, WITT,WITTY tests have multiple correct answers per question. He subjectively rates which are the most correct answers . He's also more than willing to have scores listed from tests he actually regards as being rubbish.

Very few people on the list,including myself, could be regarded as a 'genius'. Many could be regarded as being exceptionally to moderately gifted. For me being on such lists is a desperate, last ditch, attempt to deny that I'm one of life's abject failures.