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I think you're engaging in the no-true-Scotsman fallacy with the claim that highly autistic people with a lot of special needs are really "autistic with intelle
by jprete 2y ago
I think you're engaging in the no-true-Scotsman fallacy with the claim that highly autistic people with a lot of special needs are really "autistic with intellectual disabilities". I disagree. They're simply more autistic and more impacted than either of us.
- john01dav 2y agoSee here for why I think that it is different: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40329752
- jprete 2y agoBehaviors that you think are harmless to others are not necessarily so.
- pseudalopex 2y agoThey did not say no true autistic person are intellectually disabled. They said they are overlapping groups. Like Scotsmen and people who put sugar in porridge.
- jprete 2y agoThey're saying that no true definition of autism can contain intellectual disability by classifying any intellectual disability in an autistic person as a distinct, totally independent condition.
- ModernMech 2y agoThey said: > In my opinion, though, in many cases this is not autism but rather autism with an accompanying intellectual disability and the intellectual disability is the reason for higher supports needs. Which does not imply "no true definition of autism can contain intellectual disability".