Autism: Difference or disability?

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Which is it more for you?

My version is just a difference. I am high functioning despite my issues and am not "disabled" in any part of my life that matters to me.

The result of a subtraction problem.

Honestly....a disability.




A curse which I would consider selling my soul to be rid of.


Assuming there's such a thing as a soul of course.

both a disability and difference for me

A disability, and because it is a disability it is a difference.

For me its a difference because Im very high functioning but then theres these differences that just make me lost in the NT world in terms of socializing

Both

Difference, I'm glad that I'm not NT. I would kill myself if I had to be one of those "gangsta" people who have sex all day, get bad grades and graffiti everything in sight like they do.

I like the way I am even if it is difficult to live with.

To me it's a debilitating difference, meaning that I can do a lot of things that the general population does, but it requires an unusual amount of effort.

Noun: disability
1. The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness.

hmmmmmmm

I don't care for the definition no more than the title / label.

A difference for me (but I'm very very high functioning Aspe): I can do what other people do but with more effort, but NT can't do what I do, so... I win.

Deviation

It sounds cool

I think it's a condition with both disablilties and things that are mere differences. So I think it can be misleading to say that it's all mere disability.

This.

Maybe - like being tall? Standing alone, being tall is just a deviation, and therefor a difference from the average. You could even have a population of tall-only people in which they wouldn't stick out. However, being tall in a society of people who are shorter or even considerably shorter than you has a high potential of leading to problems, maybe even to the extent of being a disability. So, maybe like 'being tall' but perhaps in two or three different ways, and the problems thease features cause to the individual may augment each other.

Last edited by zombiecide on 09 Oct 2009, 3:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I am definitely different from most individuals and happy to be,but I also know and some may say I have many disabilities neurological, sensory, mental and intellectually learning disorders, I guess a complex neurological puzzle to many.. myself my only disability is societies ignorance and narrow mindedness.... my advice stick with like minded individuals as they do understand the brilliance