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Is there a mid-point between autism and neurotypicality? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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Not sure if that wouod just be like a "low-support needs" autism or if there's another established term to describe that

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago

The term would be high functioning, but were kinda moving away from that. They don't like the term, because it suggests that most people with autism are not high functioning. Instead they'll use the symptoms, like nonverbal, emotional disregulation, severe sensory issues, etc

The label you're asking for doesn't exist on purpose, because if you're high functioning, you shouldn't need accommodations. And if you do need accommodations, you must not be high functioning, and so people expect an idiot savant or something

Labels are good, in that they let us throw a bunch of things into a bucket and skip thinking about them individually. Labels are bad, in that when applied to things that are complicated, like people, we skip thinking about them individually