4:41am July 20, 2014

“While vaccine activists tend to dismiss the articulate neurodiversity people as “not really autistic,” merely “quirky” individuals hijacking the fates of those more seriously affected, they fight for research by pointing to swelling autism rates that include just such people.”

http://nymag.com/news/features/47225/index2.html (via crystalbethuniverse)

I have been telling people this for years:

You can’t use stuff like 1 in 166, or even higher numbers, without counting people who are ‘high functioning’ or 'PDDNOS’ and 'Asperger’ and etc.  So if you claim to use numbers like that in your fundraising, then you cannot claim that you’re not talking about (insert type of 'high functioning’ person here).  Because without 'high functioning’ autistic people, you would have much smaller numbers much less impressive ones.  So you basically use them for numbers, but then throw them away when they’re inconvenient to your cause.

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