Sep 17, 2022
Ew no. Many (I would say “most”) of us in the Autistic community understand functioning labels to be ableist and unhelpful.
https://medium.com/neurodiversified/im-autistic-not-on-the-spectrum-d6cc62e21810
The way you speak about us is very clinical and pathologizing, which is part of the problem with clinicians who don’t listen to Autistics with lived experience and seek to understand these things from our perspective.
