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Sati
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 Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 12:39 am Post subject: Autism: Difference or disability? |
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My version is just a difference. I am high functioning despite my issues and am not "disabled" in any part of my life that matters to me.
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Horus
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Honestly....a disability.
A curse which I would consider selling my soul to be rid of.
Assuming there's such a thing as a soul of course. |
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both a disability and difference for me
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A disability, and because it is a disability it is a difference.
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princesseli
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:55 am Post subject: |
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| For me its a difference because Im very high functioning but then theres these differences that just make me lost in the NT world in terms of socializing |
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Danielismyname
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Avarice
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Difference, I'm glad that I'm not NT. I would kill myself if I had to be one of those "gangsta" people who have sex all day, get bad grades and graffiti everything in sight like they do.
I like the way I am even if it is difficult to live with. |
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DaWalker
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To me it's a debilitating difference, meaning that I can do a lot of things that the general population does, but it requires an unusual amount of effort.
Noun: disability
1. The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness.
hmmmmmmm
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Nightsun
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A difference for me (but I'm very very high functioning Aspe): I can do what other people do but with more effort, but NT can't do what I do, so... I win.
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Friskeygirl
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Deviation
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Nightsun
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| Friskeygirl wrote: | | Deviation |
It sounds cool 
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AnnePande
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| I think it's a condition with both disablilties and things that are mere differences. So I think it can be misleading to say that it's all mere disability. |
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zombiecide
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| Friskeygirl wrote: | | Deviation |
This.
Maybe - like being tall? Standing alone, being tall is just a deviation, and therefor a difference from the average. You could even have a population of tall-only people in which they wouldn't stick out. However, being tall in a society of people who are shorter or even considerably shorter than you has a high potential of leading to problems, maybe even to the extent of being a disability. So, maybe like 'being tall' but perhaps in two or three different ways, and the problems thease features cause to the individual may augment each other.
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