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Difference and acceptance

Oscie

I have been pondering this recently, I wonder if our community will ever be accepted as simply different rather than 'disabled'? I am starting to resent the labels being ascribed by the majority population and wonder how others feel.

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  • I embrace the 'social model of disability'. I believe that I am disabled in some ways by the mismatch between my autism and how society operates. Would I have been so wracked by anxiety surrounding university examinations, if I was not obliged to take them in huge halls alongside hundreds of other people? I think not, certainly not to the same extent.

    The consequence of this viewpoint is, that if society was more matched to my needs, then my disability would disappear.

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  • I embrace the 'social model of disability'. I believe that I am disabled in some ways by the mismatch between my autism and how society operates. Would I have been so wracked by anxiety surrounding university examinations, if I was not obliged to take them in huge halls alongside hundreds of other people? I think not, certainly not to the same extent.

    The consequence of this viewpoint is, that if society was more matched to my needs, then my disability would disappear.

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