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 4 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 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Autism should not be treated as a single condition

	▲	ceejayoz 4 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.