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I'm not putting words in your mouth. What I'm saying is, if we had different names for different types of autism, saying "autism is my super power" wouldn't be

• ceejayoz 10mo ago
  > And if "no one considers autism a single thing" THEN WHAT IS EACH THING? lol We don't have a name for every color on the light spectrum, nor can the average person tell you what's different about #FF0000 vs #FE0000. They still exist!
  • jklinger410 10mo ago
    Autism should not be treated as a single condition
    • ceejayoz 10mo ago
      No one is disagreeing with that. People are trying to point out that the "spectrum" thing is the medical field doing precisely what you're asking for.
    • nerdjon 10mo ago
      Please point me to anywhere that it is treated as a single thing that isn't the people using Autism to push an anti-science agenda. It is an Umbrella term that is well understood to be a "spectrum" and well understood to not be the same for 2 different people. My question though, what is the point of separating it. What do we actually gain from doing so? I guarantee you these attacks will still exist. I don't have a degree in this but I have to imagine there was a good reason that Aspergers is no longer its own diagnosis.