I have never in my life used "autism is my super power" so please don't put words in my mouth. I will agree that it is offensive but that is very different from saying "somewhere on the spectrum" when I don't feel like having a more in dept conversation.

And again my point is that contrary to what the article seems to be trying to make, no one really considers Autism a single thing.

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jklinger410 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not putting words in your mouth. What I'm saying is, if we had different names for different types of autism, saying "autism is my super power" wouldn't be such an issue.

And if "no one considers autism a single thing" THEN WHAT IS EACH THING? lol

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ceejayoz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> And if "no one considers autism a single thing" THEN WHAT IS EACH THING? lol

We don't have a name for every color on the light spectrum, nor can the average person tell you what's different about #FF0000 vs #FE0000. They still exist!

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jklinger410 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Autism should not be treated as a single condition

	▲	ceejayoz 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No one is disagreeing with that. People are trying to point out that the "spectrum" thing is the medical field doing precisely what you're asking for.
	▲	nerdjon 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Please point me to anywhere that it is treated as a single thing that isn't the people using Autism to push an anti-science agenda. It is an Umbrella term that is well understood to be a "spectrum" and well understood to not be the same for 2 different people. My question though, what is the point of separating it. What do we actually gain from doing so? I guarantee you these attacks will still exist. I don't have a degree in this but I have to imagine there was a good reason that Aspergers is no longer its own diagnosis.

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nxor 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The article is about ASD.

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dpark 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You obviously did not claim autism as a superpower.

Still this “everyone is a bit autistic” stuff is kind of absurd. It diminishes the condition.

> most people that I know, including myself, say that we are "somewhere on the spectrum"

No one says “everyone I know is a bit paraplegic”, because that would be insane. Yet people glibly call themselves autistic as if having geeky hobbies or a job in software is the same as being diagnosable as having an autism spectrum disorder.

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nerdjon 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Still this “everyone is a bit autistic” stuff is kind of absurd. It diminishes the condition.

Again nowhere am I saying that.

Maybe I could have worded it much better but I never meant to imply, it happens that like myself a larger portion of the people I hang out with are diagnosed which for me works with just saying "most people" but I can see why that was not clear.

	▲	dpark 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fine. You said most people you know.

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mystraline 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, I won't get a diagnosis. Especially so after trump put in RFK.

RFK ordered all MDs to report all autistic people to the federal government. I know how history works, and know exactly where that leads.

So yeah, self-treat in ways that make me effective. And so far, washed out of college but working as a senior systems engineer. I say I'm doing rather well.

My dad also had the similar affect as well. He was too old to be diagnosed by medical establishment.