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Autism is not a learning difficulty

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Why are autistic people still portrayed on websites as having learning difficulties etc? it is demeaning and is continuing the link between  learning difficulties and Autism. I am aware that some Autistic People have learning difficulties but, you know what, so do some non-autistic people. I am trying to help my bright and highly intelligent daughter who happens to be autistic but who will not have anything to do with organisations that think she has LDs. I even found one website that said that autistic people have communication incapacities. As I said I know some do but to perpetuate the myth that we are all Rain Man is grossly offensive. 

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  • its because every mental illness or personality disorder is ignorantly called a learning difficulty... its a boomer thing...

    my parents suspected something was wrong with me and kept saying they think i may have a learning disability... this is why i never got diagnosed, because they instead had me checked for a learning difficulty, someone came around and then found out i was actually smarter than the average kid my age and so i didnt have a learning difficulty lol

    but yeah, boomers call every mental illness a learning difficulty. its what they called it in their days, and it is wrong, and its why millenials and some gen x didnt get a diagnosis when they could have

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  • its because every mental illness or personality disorder is ignorantly called a learning difficulty... its a boomer thing...

    my parents suspected something was wrong with me and kept saying they think i may have a learning disability... this is why i never got diagnosed, because they instead had me checked for a learning difficulty, someone came around and then found out i was actually smarter than the average kid my age and so i didnt have a learning difficulty lol

    but yeah, boomers call every mental illness a learning difficulty. its what they called it in their days, and it is wrong, and its why millenials and some gen x didnt get a diagnosis when they could have

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