Like I get parents being scared of having disabled kids for the financial strain if nothing else, but like afaik most autistics can be self sufficient and independent with the right developmental help.
It’s basically been a long running joke in my family that back in my father and grandfather’s day we didn’t have people with autism. We just had engineers.
I know there’s a lot of benefits from having the term, and a community around it. But sometimes I do wonder if maybe we lost some of the benefits that come with the old approach of “some people are like that, it would be a funny old world if we were all the same”.
It’s basically been a long running joke in my family that back in my father and grandfather’s day we didn’t have people with autism. We just had engineers.
I know there’s a lot of benefits from having the term, and a community around it. But sometimes I do wonder if maybe we lost some of the benefits that come with the old approach of “some people are like that, it would be a funny old world if we were all the same”.
The old approach has a lot of downsides esp. for our more visible comrades who need support.