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Should autistic people campaign for recognition as a distinct part of humanity rather than be labelled as disabled?

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I have stories previously of other groups of people such as Irish gypsies successfully campaigning to be recognised as a distinct subgroup of humanity. Irish gypsies do have a distinct culture (they are wonderful people if you knew them) but they are quite a bit closer to most other people than autistic people are. So rather than be classified as a disability (excluding comorbidity like learning disability, depression etc) should autistic people, who generally have a unique way of approaching life (that is common across most autistic people) campaign for the same thing? In my opinion I don't consider us to have a disability, I think we are really just a very different type of human being with a common identity among all of us who share the so called disability. What are your thoughts?

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  • in reply to M

    The faulty assumption there is the basis of any model like that is that that is the correct way to be and that there are no other different social models. Its like when geometer's thought all there was was euclidean geometry and then long down the they found non-euclidean geometries such as hyperbolic geometry. Autistics are in the non-euclidean geometries in that analogy

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