Heterogeneity of ASD

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^ It's the same with service users on mental health panels. They'll push for things that suit people at their level,and not give much consideration for others not at that level.

I understand. People are upset with some people's attitudes towards people with a formal diagnosis.
I can understand that, especially as quiet a few people still hold the old fashion perception that people with autism have an intellectual impairment or retardation.

I am very high functioning, with an above average IQ, so am offended if someone treats me as if i have an intellectual impairment, which unfortunately does happen for example, in Autism Support Services, where people who have been working for many years supporting people who have an intellectual disability who used to be classified as having autism, suddenly started to offer services to people who do not have an intellectual impairment after Asperger Syndrome diagnosis was included in the umbrella ASD term.

My diagnosis actually distinguishes the type of ASD person i am. Autism Spectrum Disorder, asperger syndrome variety.

This does clarify my diagnosis. Which perhaps is important. No offense to anyone who does have an intellectual impairment. I personally see all sentient beings as equal, regardless as to level of wealth, looks, disability or IQ level.

I'm quite grateful about infos such as these.

In terms of discussion, anything to do with formal systems and it's resources allocation, insurance and several services or accomodations usually goes over my head.

Why?
From where I came from, only those who are, well, top 30% or so richest could only hope to ever keep up with western standards of treatment.
And I'm not one of them.


So any input of advice I give and sometimes take -- zero budgets or improvised, all of them.
Not because of stigma, anti-treatment sentiments, or this ego clinging identity, but out of sheer unavailability.

Therefore, situation from where I came from is this; there is no such thing as 'mental health support'. Because the idea of funding anything that resembles as such may not even exists.
So the supports that exists here are mostly informal, done through networks, favors and occassionally volunteering...



Advocacy is also different here; acceptance and tolerance here are easier, but implementations are harder if not less possible.
To implement, we (people from here) work around the system that just constantly fails us (me and people here).


What boggles me sometimes is that you guys from abroad had more resources, awareness, ideas and knowledge that I'm sure years ahead.

Yet the overall attitudinal and content of narrative contexts sucks.
And from what I observed this had little to do with semantics, let alone the English language issues with the word 'we'.

Perhaps you guys had to go deeper...
Learn more about the social dynamics and narratives, then how to tackle from the root causes of contexts.

Which narrative persists, which didn't.

A hint I can give is this;
Why autism is no longer associated with schizophrenia yet it is persistently associated with either intellectual disability or forms of ASPD?

Logically, autism should've leaned more with the resonating narratives of anxiety and learning disabilities.
Yet in narrative at large that didn't happened -- because that's not how humans take it to contexts.



Oh, and I'd say 'autism' is on the same classes or category as any learning disability; it's natural and yet environmentally imposed due to social changes.
Yet at the same time, there are gaps as to how to differentiate it from innate wiring to traumas and hormonal issues.


Personally, I'd fix my hormones I've been trying to cope against.
But wiring is another thing altogether -- in my own case I know how to adapt to it long ago.

The wiring itself didn't stopped me from accessing the skills I already had.
Yet issues, be it circumstantial or secondary consequences and effects from the wiring, do.


I'm already what many can consider 'HFA', yet I still considered myself trapped in my own body.
This is coming from someone without a major comorbidity. While I don't desire to be normal or be social -- I still desire to be competent.

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