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The DSM and ICD with regards to Asperger's and the Autistic Spectrum Disorder classification

The DSM and ICD with regards to Asperger’s and the Autistic Spectrum Disorder classification

This is from something I said in response to a post on Reddit in /r/aspergirls.  There is a lot more that I would like to say, and I know that this is very basic, but I wanted to post it because (to me, at least) it is a very interesting discussion starting point. Let me know any thoughts you might have in the comments! The DSM and ICD are systems of diagnostic criteria for labelling various…

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Patterns for Success: #HighFunctioningMeans Career Challenges

Patterns for Success: #HighFunctioningMeans Career Challenges

For those of you who are active on Twitter, you may have witnessed an uprising of tweets from actually autistic people over the last week with three very poignant hashtags:

#LowFunctioningMeans

#HighFunctioningMeans

#FunctioningLabelsMean

The gist of this movement was to express the damage that functioning labels have done to many autistic people in setting certain expectations of ability or…

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