Do you guys actually care about this?

I don't really either mind or care what it is called, as long as it is open to some sort of dialogue. But apart from the UK organisation who agreed with my own identification, almost no one really wants to talk about it, anywhere. I am, I suppose, not much more than a bit of a pain. But not so much of a pain that I would ever become a person of any great significance/notoriety. And somehow I remain fairly cheerful. With all the environmental, religious social and economic  problems in the World today, I'm sure most people would willingly sweep the whole issue of autism under the carpet. (We're on a road to nowhere!)

good to see u're still the same

One former NHS nurse I know said that labels were counterproductive, whilst at the same time demonstrating a considerable number of supposedly ND behaviours herself. I told her that I found labels could also be quite convenient personally. But what do you do when no one wants to even discuss a label, least of all former NHS employees. I would say that actually it helps to talk / act out to yourself aloud quite a lot, so that no one can easily imagine that you are just faking it. So they get the point, even though the label is never mentioned. I find it suits me just fine to do that, and it keeps the doubting Thomases at a very safe remove at the same time. Nice!

One former NHS nurse I know said that labels were counterproductive, whilst at the same time demonstrating a considerable number of supposedly ND behaviours herself. I told her that I found labels could also be quite convenient personally. But what do you do when no one wants to even discuss a label, least of all former NHS employees. I would say that actually it helps to talk / act out to yourself aloud quite a lot, so that no one can easily imagine that you are just faking it. So they get the point, even though the label is never mentioned. I find it suits me just fine to do that, and it keeps the doubting Thomases at a very safe remove at the same time. Nice!