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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It bothers me because I feel like lately the self-diagnosed or late-diagnosed people, especially teens and people in their early 20s, are monopolizing the conversation. People who were able to access the mainstream curriculum in schools, who are verbal/speaking, who maybe have some deficits in communication and/or “restricted interests,” but who are able to live a pretty “normal” life. And then people who have more severe symptoms, higher support needs, who were diagnosed at an early age, are non -speaking, have outbursts/tantrums etc. are overlooked. I mean I see these people who are like, I can’t deal with loud noises/outbursts in public because of my autism … but my DS who is now 4 and who was diagnosed with autism at 2 is prone to randomly yelping and screaming in public just because that’s something he does … so these people are autistic out here saying they can’t stand other autistic people? It doesn’t sit right with me or with a lot of other parents of higher support needs kids. [/quote]

This x a thousand. 
The argument that they all have things in common is not sufficient justification for grouping them all together. Not least bc as popular as that argument is the argument that no two autistic people are alike. 
Dsm needs to find some really clear and specific shared criteria and create sub categories. Right now autism is just like - any human who isn’t that chilled out [/quote]

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