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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.
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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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