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Is autism a disability?

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over 1 year ago

My council had autism on the application form and didn't specify it had to be a certain level in order to be registered disabled with them.

This site refers to autism as a developmental disability:

www.autism.org.uk/.../what-is-autism

This link regarding discrimination throws autism being classed generally (ie unqualified) as a disability into doubt.

I find this rather confusing:

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/discrimination/check-if-youre-protected-from-discrimination/what-counts-as-disability/

'The definition is set out in section 6 of the Equality Act 2010. It says you’re disabled if:

  • you have a physical or mental impairment
  • that impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities'

Is it a variable thing then according to what you are trying use the disability definition to achieve?

Is this because we are on a spectrum with varying degrees of functionality?

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  • over 1 year ago

    I think that Autism is a disability because of the evidenced impairments. Also, we represent 2% of the population, and the quality of life for those who have ASD is overwhelmingly counted as ‘poor’ to ‘very poor’.  
    Few of us manage to live the life we had hoped for ourselves, and that the general population would deem ‘good or ‘very good’’, for this reason I deem our neurological condition to be a disabling one..

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  • over 1 year ago

    I think that Autism is a disability because of the evidenced impairments. Also, we represent 2% of the population, and the quality of life for those who have ASD is overwhelmingly counted as ‘poor’ to ‘very poor’.  
    Few of us manage to live the life we had hoped for ourselves, and that the general population would deem ‘good or ‘very good’’, for this reason I deem our neurological condition to be a disabling one..

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