11:20am May 16, 2013

➸ Urocyon's Jaunts: Can we

youneedacat:

tal9000:

goldenheartedrose:

whutyoufelloverfor:

goldenheartedrose:

Just do away with the idea of “high functioning” vs. “low functioning” autism?

I mean, really, what good does it do us to separate between the two and then have allistic parents say we couldn’t …

Yes there are people online posting from institutions. Not all institutions are without internet access.
But what I hate about making the dividing line institutions, is that it contributes to a myth about who does and doesn’t end up in institutions.
Basically within institutions, are the same sorts of people who are outside institutions. As in. Every sort of person who is living in an institution. Is also living outside of institutions.
Because institutions aren’t necessary to providing any level of care. Any at all.
And the idea that they are. That’s what’s behind that kind of BS.

I think that might have been the point I was trying to make, that it isn’t only those perceived as low functioning who are institutionalized.
But this is an old post of mine, so I’m not entirely sure that is where I was going with this.

Not just that it isn’t people considered LFA who are institutionalized. Also that people considered LFA live outside institutions just as easily if not more so as inside them. There’s literally no difference between who is inside who’s outside, either direction.

Notes: