Aspies are basically NTs, but impaired?

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"Autistic people are just like regular people except with social, cognitive and communication impairments."

I guess I don't fully understand how this offensive.

It is called aspergers disorder, and there's autistic disorder, and autism spectrums disorder.

So there is the word disorder which is saying it is dis-ordered from some other ordered functioning, typical functioning.

There is also typical and atypical. But the atypical, would be atypical from what is typical or, "regular".

Then there is the word "impairment" but it is diagnostically an impairment.

I saw another thread about AS being different or a disability, I think. Someone said it is both a difference and a disability and that made the most sense to me. So maybe problem is that asd isn't just impairments but a difference too?

I would think it isn't just a a disability but also a difference.

We are all human. There are a lot of different ways that we can subdivide or subclassify humanity, and many of them don't make one group "greater" or "lesser" than another group. Every different language that we think in makes a different pattern of thinking, and every different culture. No individual is perfectly superior or perfectly inferior at every human task or pursuit.

Edit:
In the interests of accuracy, I take that back a little bit. Maybe the individual who is permanently unconscious or in coma would be "perfectly inferior at every human task or pursuit", but even then, he's still human, and entitled to be cared for by other humans as best they can until he dies. Humans have always behaved in that way. They have skeletons of early men which show traces of healed broken bones that could not have been healed without a lot of help from his friends.