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I fully agree. The amount of people that have “minor” autism and get upset at people looking for a cure is huge, for instance. For them they’re just a little b

I fully agree. The amount of people that have “minor” autism and get upset at people looking for a cure is huge, for instance. For them they’re just a little bit different, and they wouldn’t want to be someone else. They don’t realize there are people like my cousin that needs to live in a group home because he’s almost non-verbal.

taneq 2y ago
> The amount of people that have “minor” autism and get upset at people looking for a cure is huge, for instance. Yeah, it reminds me of that X-Men meme with Rogue talking about a cure and Storm saying there's nothing to cure because it's not a disease. "I'd take a cure" thinks the nonverbal kid with severe everything who needs 24/7 care. "Shut up, we're perf" says the girl who's the world expert on diffractometry but doesn't always pick up social cues. I tend to liken the term ASD to saying 'lower limb impairment disorder'. Did I stub my toe? Is one leg off at the knee? Was I born with no legs at all? Who knows, it's just LLID! What are you meant to do with that information? No idea. I really think in a lot of ways it'd help to have a couple of smaller buckets inside the giant bucket that is ASD.
- wizzwizz4 2y ago
  > I really think in a lot of ways it'd help to have a couple of smaller buckets inside the giant bucket that is ASD. The reason we don't is because it's not possible. Every time someone tries to make a high / medium / low-functioning distinction, some PhD gymnast running three companies and a dog shelter who can't reliably feed herself has a weeks-long non-verbal episode after she wore the wrong colours to an investor meeting, and completely ruins their categorisation system thereby. If there's one thing all autistic people have in common, it's not being well-described by the paradigms according to which you want to bucket them. That's not to say there aren't apparent subtypes of autism, just as there are apparent subtypes of allism. But they're hard to pin down, and they're not really useful for what you want to use them for: there are people in each of them who live happy, fulfilled lives, and who struggle to function on a daily basis – and who could be described by both of those clauses, for that matter.

taneq 2y ago

> The amount of people that have “minor” autism and get upset at people looking for a cure is huge, for instance. Yeah, it reminds me of that X-Men meme with Rogue talking about a cure and Storm saying there's nothing to cure because it's not a disease. "I'd take a cure" thinks the nonverbal kid with severe everything who needs 24/7 care. "Shut up, we're perf" says the girl who's the world expert on diffractometry but doesn't always pick up social cues. I tend to liken the term ASD to saying 'lower limb impairment disorder'. Did I stub my toe? Is one leg off at the knee? Was I born with no legs at all? Who knows, it's just LLID! What are you meant to do with that information? No idea. I really think in a lot of ways it'd help to have a couple of smaller buckets inside the giant bucket that is ASD.

wizzwizz4 2y ago
> I really think in a lot of ways it'd help to have a couple of smaller buckets inside the giant bucket that is ASD. The reason we don't is because it's not possible. Every time someone tries to make a high / medium / low-functioning distinction, some PhD gymnast running three companies and a dog shelter who can't reliably feed herself has a weeks-long non-verbal episode after she wore the wrong colours to an investor meeting, and completely ruins their categorisation system thereby. If there's one thing all autistic people have in common, it's not being well-described by the paradigms according to which you want to bucket them. That's not to say there aren't apparent subtypes of autism, just as there are apparent subtypes of allism. But they're hard to pin down, and they're not really useful for what you want to use them for: there are people in each of them who live happy, fulfilled lives, and who struggle to function on a daily basis – and who could be described by both of those clauses, for that matter.