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Dejaré esto por aquí:
I Would Cure My Autism
Es largo el artículo, pero es interesante porque es muy personal. Es todo el viaje del tipo para llegar a esa conclusión. Me llamó la atención esta parte:
Es un párrafo largo...
The killing blow to my faith in the neurodiversity movement, funnily enough, was not failing to secure realistic accommodation for my autism; it was finally achieving ideal levels of accommodation. It was only after getting a very good job working in a tech startup and getting to live a life that was as accommodated as I could realistically expect that I finally realized that the disorder ran much deeper than society’s inability or unwillingness to accommodate me. Until this point in my life, I had been living nearly accommodation-free—with the exception of my long-suffering and very lovely wife providing me support to such a large extent that my family jokes that I married my social worker. I was an army officer, which is probably one of the least autism-friendly jobs in the world, and found myself limited in my career advancement because of the whole host of autism-related issues that I faced. It was easy for me to see why I felt like societal change and accommodation would solve my problems. I only knew what a world was like without accommodation, understanding, and acceptance. Then one day, I finally left the military and I moved from a job where I had no accommodations and was expected to meet the social expectations of an army officer to a job as a senior cybersecurity analyst where I had access to any accommodation that I wanted or needed and was met with acceptance and understanding by everyone I worked with. My workplace was extremely flexible and autism-friendly. Everyone knew what autism was and how to manage people with autism. Even if they didn’t know that autism was the name for the condition, in my field, an autistic cyber security analyst was such a common thing to encounter that people didn’t think of us as a disabled minority but just as a type of guy that you will inevitably have to encounter. No one cared about my odd social skills, weird affect, strange way of speaking, executive dysfunction, or my lack of interpersonal communication abilities; they only cared about my ability to perform a very specific set of complex technical tasks. Yet, despite getting every accommodation I needed and shifting to a culture that was maximally accepting, it solved very few of my actual autism-related problems. Realizing that my autism problems were not due to a lack of accommodation by running a fairly convoluted N=1 study on my own life led me to re-examine a lot of my previous autism research with much more substantial N values (which you could read more about here and here). When I no longer felt compelled to force my research conclusions into a neurodiversity framework, I quickly came to the conclusion that the vast majority of us were facing problems that could not be easily reduced to a lack of accommodation, acceptance, and understanding. The most obvious conclusion you could draw from the accumulated data was the totally revolutionary and shocking conclusion that a neurodevelopmental disorder causes a lot of inherently maladaptive neurological traits.Cuando cachó que ni con toda la buena voluntad del mundo se le acababan los problemas por causa de su autismo, no le quedó otra que asumir que el autismo es una discapacidad.
Una de las pajas del mundo moderno es decir que los trastornos del espectro autista no son discapacidades.
O peor, el eufemismo de que las discapacidades son en realidad capacidades diferentes.
Que haya un montón de wnes auto-diagnosticándose autistas, cuando simplemente les falta calle, tampoco ayuda mucho.
Pienso que diste con la palabra clave. En mi día a día veo un gran estigma en la palabra discapacidad, definiéndola directamente como un peyorativo.