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10:48pm May 21, 2014

holmestiel-love:

I think the idea of functioning labels could have been a good idea, at its core. It could have been trying to judge how one can take care of themself through day-to-day life and what level of assistance they would need in order to fulfill their life (which would not matter about society’s judge of life fulfillment but of each individual person’s personal goals to be happy and successful.)

But instead, it’s not that at all. It’s harmful judging of how close to allistic we are and how far they can push us to be allistic-passing. It’s removing the disability rights of “high functioning” and the human rights of “low functioning.”

If only there were more representatives who are actually autistic in the autism movement/research and less condescending allistics, then maybe it wouldn’t be so broken.

I think the idea would’ve worked if it was for one skill at a time, at one point in time.

Anything else becomes impossible because autistic people have too many skills at too many levels at one time.