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11:08am
January 19, 2012
➸ Welcome 2 my Mind: Why I Don't Mind The Categorization of Disability Sometimes
Ok, this is just really quick and will be edited in the morning but all this talk about how High Functioning Vs. Low Functioning (primarily in Autism) has been getting a bad rap lately. Now, I know there is a lot going into this and I see both sides ( I really do) I don’t really understand how…
I may make more parts of this later but here is a link to part 1 of my response. I don’t think it’s possible to know all sides to this because there’s more than two sides and a huge number of different motivations even among people who appear to be on the same side. For instance, some people don’t like functioning levels because they don’t want to acknowledge how diverse autistic people are, others don’t like them because there’s little good scientific evidence, others don’t like it because it doesn’t fit with how they experience autism, and tons more reasons. (Unfortunately a lot of people think it’s the first reason for most of us. Which isn’t true but it certainly fits a few of us.)
withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from getin2myhead21 and added:Okay. I’ll be posting my views on the topic too (in my case autism specific – I have tons of other conditions but going...
getin2myhead21 reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
disabilitydiary reblogged this from getin2myhead21 and added:I really don’t mind categorization much either. Because, just as you said, it gives people a better idea of the supports...
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