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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you’re “high functioning”, do you really have autism? When I was growing up, autism meant non-communicative, in-your-own-world kind of behavior. Is the “spectrum “ too broad now because people want a label for their kids just because they’re a little weird?[/quote]

And I’ll bet that when you were growing up, a subway ride cost a nickel.  Was there any particular point you were trying to make, other than to deliberately invalidate the identities of autistic people who don’t meet your ableist and decades-out-of-date conception of what autism is?  Of course, ignorance and hatred like yours isn’t unexpected on a forum like this one.  Even the r-word is considered acceptable by the admins.[/quote]

DP.  The r word is not acceptable.  Report it and it gets deleted.  As for the rest, there's a lot of dissatisfaction from experts and laypeople about the current diagnostics for autism.  It's not ableist to say that autism is too broad now.  [/quote]

+1 Thank you.[/quote]

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