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I'd invite you to consider if the phrase from your diagnostic report wasn't a cut and paste stock phrase that gets put in the diagnostic reports of all autistic people passing through that particular unit.

Too often we are misunderstood by people witha vested interest in seeing us as less and our differences seen as deficiences. I bet the report had nothing about your strengths and capabilties, stuff that NT people can't do, because the diagnostic process only looks for negatives. It saddens me that such a capable and clever person as yourself is thus defined. Never let anyone else define you, that power belongs to you alone.

The 'disorder' term is much beloved of 'autism professionals'. The government's Autism Strategy does not use it and the Department of Health consider the term disparaging and outmoded. But it is used to medicalise us and justify the way we're often treated.

I'd invite you to consider if the phrase from your diagnostic report wasn't a cut and paste stock phrase that gets put in the diagnostic reports of all autistic people passing through that particular unit.

Too often we are misunderstood by people witha vested interest in seeing us as less and our differences seen as deficiences. I bet the report had nothing about your strengths and capabilties, stuff that NT people can't do, because the diagnostic process only looks for negatives. It saddens me that such a capable and clever person as yourself is thus defined. Never let anyone else define you, that power belongs to you alone.

The 'disorder' term is much beloved of 'autism professionals'. The government's Autism Strategy does not use it and the Department of Health consider the term disparaging and outmoded. But it is used to medicalise us and justify the way we're often treated.

I do not object to the term "disorder" when it is applied to my condition, i do see myself as a dysfunctional person, I cannot work with others as we never seem to be on the same page and as it is usually me who is at odds with everybody else it cannot be said that they are the ones at fault and not I.

The criminality associated with Autistic people is a new one on me, I must say but i have noticed that as I do not fit into the neurotypical bracket, I am often regarded with suspicion by people who I consider to have quite shallow intelligence and understanding-the trouble is that they are in the majority and speak for a culture which demands certainty and categorisation but itself spreads fog and disinformation.Hypocrisy and corruption are everywhere,

Terminology for those on the Spectrum is a sensitive issue-I know it is, I hate it when I hear myself defined by others, I am not saying that I am a better person than I am given credit for but so much of what people say when they claim to understand me is so off the mark at times- they could be describing Nelson Mandela. I feel certain that many opportunities have been denied me in the past because of inaccurate assessments of my chahracter,I can be a littele elitist at times but I sometimes think that there is a sort of lowest common denominator dynamic to popular culture and I often see people taliking and behaving in the manner of characters from, I am appalled by how people discard their own identities so readily when there is a popular meme to follow and assimilate. soap operasI am no stranger to the horrible feeling you get when a door is slammed in your face when you know you have done no wrong.