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11 May 2015, 8:05 pm
emax10000 wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
This is the form of ableism I had in mind when I wrote “Aspie supremacy” needed to be called out. Another variation is somebody writing it is insulting to me to be called “person with Autism” but ok to call low functioning people that. Doing that is criticizing an individual and is different from stigmatizing a group
I would also add that when you are talking high functioning autism, high functioning enough that a degree of social awkwardness is the only real drawback, and this kind of autism: you can clearly see that advocating for a cure for one type and having the other type simply learning how to live differently makes sense. On the spectrum it is inevitable that some are simply different and others are not even in the same galaxy as being "just different". I do not think making note of this is ableism per se.
It is ableism if you say you cure is ok for low functioning autistics as a GROUP but wrong for High Functioning Autistics/Aspies. It is the definition ableism to say what us best for others on the assumption they can't decide for themselves. There are autistics considered "low functioning" that are anti cure.
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11 May 2015, 8:05 pm
