• moitoi@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    The issue with your explanation is that autism isn't an illness nor a disease nor a disorder. It's a neurotype, a neurological difference.

    It doesn't come with a difference in neurology. It's a different neurology. They're no normal neurology. All of them are egal and valid. When one of them exercises a pressure to be the one, the norm, and doesn't let the others exist, it's discrimination against a minority. This ends with a high suicide number. It has deep implications with trauma, PTSD, cptsd, depression and other mental health issues from a very young age to elderly. When you can't cope anymore, you …

    And yeah, it's internalized ableism to blame ourselves.

    • Lols [they/them]@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      whether autism is or is not an illness, disease or disorder has no bearing on what i said

      you seem to be misinterpreting my comment as being a judgement of value on autism or autistic folks, which it is not

      my point is based on the common symptoms, effects and predispositions of autism, especially ones that cannot be pinned on mistreatment

      completely and entirely regardless of whether it is a 'valid' or 'normal' neurology or not, and completely and entirely regardless of whether autistic folks can or cannot be blamed for any of it