Published on 12, July, 2020
In order to hook up autistic people with non-autistic people a service has to either
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In case 2 the question is
Dating sites are not for me. I was on them when I was younger but they tended to result in awkward dates between awkward people. I met all my sexual partners in the real world and found that easier than meeting them online first.
So would you be in favour of in real life events like speed dating and singles nights and singles activities like I suggested?
Maybe yeah. Why? Are genuinely thinking about starting something?
The reserch comunity invented it and continues to use it in litrature. When you are creating a study on autistic people you often want to look at only people with normal / high IQs and people with low IQs seperatly. Parents tend to object to their kids being put in the 'low IQ' group. So low functioning is used instead.
Let me ask you this if I rephrase this:
I am involved in a number of local autism charities and I do like to remind them from time to time that there are a lot of high IQ autistic people out there who maybe aren’t getting the services from these charities they ought to.
Do you think that makes it better and more sensative? People are still going to be offended we are 'dividing' autistic people based on IQ sensable as that might be. And it causes confusion because when people hear high IQ they think of someone with an IQ over 115 (above normal) not over 85 (normal and above).
Peter said:I am involved in a number of local autism charities and I do like to remind them from time to time that there are a lot of high functioning autistic people out there who maybe aren’t getting the services from these charities they ought to
For the general benefit of all involved, I'd respectfully suggest that you don't refer to "high functioning autistic people" when talking to these autism charities.
"High / low functioning" have never been official diagnostic terms.
The terminology is widely considered to be problematic for many reasons, as outlined here (among many other places online). For all of our sakes, the less it's perpetuated the better. :)
https://psychiatry-uk.com/higher-or-lower-why-using-functional-labels-to-describe-autism-is-problematic/
If we’re talking about in real life events pestering other people to start something is more likely. I am involved in a number of local autism charities and I do like to remind them from time to time that there are a lot of high functioning autistic people out there who maybe aren’t getting the services from these charities they ought to.