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Are you autistic? || If you press the button, no person with autism is ever born again (or become autistic through other means), though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?

Yes | Yes
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No | Yes
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Geoffrey Miller

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Now do high versus low functioning....

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Sydney (AKA Stardust) #PokémonScarlet

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"Low functioning" downplays what an autistic person is truly capable of; "high functioning" downplays our struggles and makes it hard for people to give us help when we need it, because they don't think we need it. AKA, don't use these labels. They're harmful and wrong.

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What terms would you prefer to describe the thing he's trying to describe?

5:14 AM · Apr 14, 2020

Tennyson E. Stead

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Why not just stop worrying about the “discomfort” of neurotypicals who are exposed to autism, and focus instead on the actual well-being of autistic people? Do that, and no metric is required here.

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