>It's a big argument in the community about higher functioning austistic people speaking as if they represent all. I've spent much time mulling this point and

>It's a big argument in the community about higher functioning austistic people speaking as if they represent all. I've spent much time mulling this point and have concluded I don't give a damn. If people are constantly running into the problem of any specific definition of "Autism" not encompassing the entire population, the problem isn't me, the problem is that the word "Autism" itself is overloaded. I'm not going to spend even 1 second doing anything but trying to destigmatise autism and talk about autistics being strong and capable, I literally don't care if that makes people mad, they can come up with a new word to describe these more impaired autistics if they don't feel I'm representing their interests. I'm not going to sabotage my own interests out of some misguided sense of morality. We used to distinguish between Aspergers and Autism, people can go back to a system like that if it makes them happy.