I’d known I had Asperger’s practically all my life, but it wasn’t until much later that I’d heard it be called “a disability” and I took a lot of offence to it. It looks like this was actually the first meme I ever made.

  • can@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Idk, I consider ym ADHD a disability because it demonstrably affects my ability to function.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly… if it is not a “disorder” in your daily functioning it doesn’t meet diagnostic criteria

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    Autism affects everyone differently, so not everyone with it feels they’re disabled, but it definitely makes aspects of life harder for some people; therefore, by definition, it can be a disability.

  • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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    an autistic community taking a meme too literally

    (8 downvotes… Pretty sure OP didn’t actually mean they recently threatened to kill someone…)

    In all seriousness though, I sorta get both sides here. It absolutely makes things tough. It can even be a kind of handicap in social situations etc. But for me anyways, the sort of “superpowers” of being able to focus on the details and analyse, and to be able to hyperfocus on my interests outweighs the bad. So I think I get what OP means here about getting angry when someone throws you in with “disabled” or says it’s a “mental disorder” as if it’s something wrong that can be cured. It’s not. For me at least, it’s just who I am.

    That said… Yeah, being different absolutely sucks sometimes too.

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      Yes. That’s pretty much what I was thinking.

      Mostly, I just wanted to share an old meme.
      I don’t necessarily still agree fully with it.
      And yeah, it was more related to how it feels rather then what you do.

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    If you don’t think autism is a disability I question your diagnosis accuracy. Regardless of how you feel about that, kindly do not tell people it’s not a disability. I have work accommodations, living accommodations, insurance conditions, and a service dog, none of which I’d have without my diagnosed disability