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IMO it's a disability

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I do get the impression that some like what are seen as the 'positive ' parts of being an autistic person enough to want the dx, but are vehemently against any suggestion they're disabled.I'm not in that category. I have absolutely no doubt that I'm disabled. I' m not this high achieving autistic superperson. Not because I'm totally  stupid. High range IQ test scores show that that isn't true. However there is a significant adaptive functioning < IQ gap.

  • I was at the pharmacists over the weekend getting told my meds would be halfed because "theirs another one of you needing them aswell" at first i was like oh right okay thats fine ..then later i thought "another one of you.."_ absolute cheeky slag been fuming since haha 

  • in reply to Peter

    Then they'd feel the iron boot on their necks for a change...

    OO. Did I say that out loud? ;c)

  • One way it was put to me which makes some sense is you can treat disabled as a noun or as a verb. Disabled as a noun is what you are but as a verb it's what is done to you. As autistic people are a disabled by society. stranded on a desert island we're no better or worse off than a non autistic person stranded alone on a desert island. Our 'disability' is generated in conjunction with society. If we could make a country where autistic people were in the majority it might be quite different. There it might be the neurotypicals who were disabled.

  • I view my own autism, in general, more as an impediment than a disability, as I can appear to function like a neurotypical for most of the time, but the social processing is conscious and it is exhausting. However, if I want to get through airport check-in more quickly, or I need to use a disabled toilet, it magically becomes a disability.

  • I'm in exactly the same boat.

    However, I've achieved enough in life compared to my non-autistic peers, to suggest that although what I have appears to be a huge disability in this modern social world, it is in fact more of a difference, than an actual disabilty per-se.

    The problem, as I currently see it, is that what most people call "achievement" is not a solo effort and it needs a supporting cast of uncreditted people which Autists do not often have available to them. .