Anonymous asked: I have to honestly say I don't see autism as a disability at all. If a fish lived among humans, it would be called disabled because it can learn to ride a bicycle. Is it disabled? No. It's a fish. I know it's not quite the same thing, but I don't see the difference in the idea. We're just different. I mean; is a man disabled because he can't have a baby? Just my opinion...
(N.B.: There are men who have functioning ovaries & uteri and can have babies.)
You are welcome to construe your own autism any way you wish, but there are many autistic people who consider their autism to be a disability. This is not the same thing as saying it’s a bad thing, or saying they want to not be autistic. I construe my own autism as a disability because it severely limits my ability to try new foods due to texture sensitivities. My touch- and texture-sensitivities have caused me great pleasure in spite of the great pain they cause me, but they, among other aspects of my autism, are certainly a disability for me.
![Autistic Problem #136: When you’re an adult with one of your parents at your Social Security evaluation, and you’re afraid to speak for yourself because you think articulating your own observations about yourself and demonstrating metacognition will make the evaluator determine that you aren’t eligible for disability. But you’re equally afraid to let your parent speak for you because they’ll probably misrepresent you, albeit probably unintentionally.
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![Autistic Problem #125: Being told you’re “Just being lazy” and “should get over it” when you admit you’re on disability.
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