12:22pm June 4, 2013

➸ Making Room for Other Roots: they define autism as a social disorder...

apheline:

youneedacat:

josiahd:

…because the only part they care about is the part that makes us look weird or inconvenient to them.

it’s really offensive

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This is exactly…

Calling autism primarily social is sort of like saying being blind is a primarily social problem because blind people have trouble seeing facial expressions. Which I’m sure happens, in fact I know it does. But it’s just as WTF. There are social consequences to being autistic, just like being blind, or especially deaf kind. But even though people focus on the social skills of people with those conditions, they still know that the underlying problem is the eyes and ears, not the social part of the brain.

Unlike autism, where they half the time try to claim that the underlying issues are not perceptual and motor and cognitive at all. If they acknowledge those issues at all they consider them side issues and don’t see that they are deeper than that.

Because autistic people’s perceptual issues are more than just being hypersensitive to sound, for instance. Our cognitive issues are more than a low IQ sometimes. Our motor issues are far far more than clumsiness. Yet that’s all they cover half the time. When the real issues are far deeper, more pervasive, and cause most of the problems that they describe in the DSM when diagnosing us.

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