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"The gap between high-functioning and low-functioning Autistic people is too wide. This is why they need to be two separate diagnoses."

There is no gap, there are people there.

THERE IS NO GAP, THERE ARE PEOPLE THERE!

MSN Autistic people exist. Separating the spectrum is to leave us behind. Stop forgetting about us.

#far too many people act like autism is lsn autistic people and hsn autistic people and there's no in between #when in reality there are millions of people between the two who are often ignored and left behind in discussions of autism #actually autistic #autism #msn autism #mental disorders #disability #ableism #repetition #repetition cw #caps cw #nat's posting

There's nothing like seeing LSN Autistic people talk about the Autistic experience to make you realise that you do not belong here.

"Autistic people don’t miss social cues, we just don't care."

You guys can read social cues???? I didn't get that option when I signed up to my Autism subscription.

#actually autistic #autism #mental disorders #disability #nat's posting

Yo, when are people gonna actually start acknowledging that Autism causes social and communication deficits?????? Like, Autistic people have massive difficulties in social ability and communication. Way too many people, particularly other Autistic people, get really upset at Autistic people for not having good social skills, and like????????????????? Yeah??????? Autism is a social deficit????????

I've consistantly seen people complaining about Autistic people not learning proper social skills, like being able to pick up on social cues, and being able to do small talk. Like, I'm sorry, but I literally have a disability that means that I can't learn how to do that??????

You cannot just assume that I haven't tried to learn how to do that just because I'm bad at it, I have a social disorder, I'm just bad at it, no matter how hard I've tried to learn social skills (and trust me, I have).

A part of Autism being a social deficit isn't just that picking up social skills intuitively is harder, but learning social skills is also much harder. While some Autistic people can learn social skills if they put the work into it, most can't.

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"Other than not being able to steer or control where we land, I would say this is going well."

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I think I'm very funny, hehe. Anyways, Happy Pride!

(exorsexism is the discrimination against non-binary people, for anyone that doesn't know)

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Something I've been seeing quite a bit from people that believe that Autism is only a disability because of society, is the idea that the way higher support needs Autistic people become not disabled in our society is by having people around them help them with all of the things they can't do.

And like, I feel like this speaks to the massive disconnect between LSN Autistics and HrSN Autistics.

Having to rely on others just to be able to exist in the world, is, in and of itself, very disabling.

You can't do what you want, when you want. You are constantly on other people's time. If someone forgets or doesn't show up for you, then you're stuck, you can't do anything about it. Because you're disabled.

I highly implore that anyone that thinks this to please go and listen to and talk to higher support needs disabled people, and disabled people that have carers.

It is okay to be disabled.

#I'd love to live in a world where everyone had access to all the support and accommodations they need without worry #but that doesn't make us not disabled #actually autistic #autism #autism is a disability #mental disorders #disability #ableism #nat's posting

I really need people to understand this.

Asperger’s would be a bad diagnosis whether it was named after Hans Asperger or not. Renaming it “Lorna Syndrome” (after Lorna Wing, the person that coined the diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome) would not suddenly make it an okay diagnosis.

Asperger Syndrome is a harmful diagnosis, and was taken out of the DSM because there was no discernible way to distinguish it from Autism. Which one you were diagnosed with was entirely up to whoever was diagnosing you, and sometimes you just didn't receive a diagnosis at all because the doctor couldn't decide which diagnosis to give you (yes, hello, that's me. I am going to have to get rediagnosed with the dsm-5 so that i can access disability benefits, and I imagine I am not the only one).

I have seen far too many people recently asking if we should just rename Asperger’s, and start using it again. If we should separate the ones that can work and live independently from those that need 24/7 care. And like, no, we shouldn't. Regardless of how much support one needs, we still have the same condition, some are just more impacted by it than others.

Separating the spectrum literally helps nobody. Those with Asperger’s are viewed as just a bit quirky and weird, and not needing support, those with Classic Autism as a tragedy in need of being eradicated, and those of us deemed not high-functioning enough for an Asperger’s diagnosis and not low-functioning enough for an Autism diagnosis are left behind and forgotten. No one truly taken seriously.

Most that think we should separate the spectrum are either Aspie Supremacists, or parents and professionals who don't even view LSN Autism as real Autism. I have never, ever seen an MSN or HSN Autistic person say that we should separate the Spectrum (doesn't mean they don't exist, but I am in that community, and I've never seen it). So who exactly does separating the Spectrum benefit?

(Edit: OP has a cognitive impairment, please simplify your comments so that I can understand them, thank you)