Wait a Minute, I'm the One with a Disorder?

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Lot of self diagnosers and self advocates seem to misunderstand the word disorder. Something is not made a disorder because they are the minority of the big population. Disorder means it causes you an impairment and makes it hard for you to function. If autism didn't cause anyone an impairment, they wouldn't have a disorder and it would be considered a personality like introversion is and highly sensitive and being an empath even though those three things are also the minority.

I see the diagnosed tell the undiagnosed from time to time on Reddit that autism is a disability, it's not a personality or a quirk before deciding to put the autism label on themselves.

I do see these high functioning people trying to make autism normal and a personality so it makes me wonder how they are even autistic in the first place if they are not impaired. They might have been impaired before but then overcame it by no longer being impaired so they would be considered "cured" or "outgrown" by medical definition.

Also not going out to party and not doing drugs doesn't make you abnormal. It just means you are not into that and that is okay. Everyone has their own interests and hobbies. Not going to parties and not drinking or partying doesn't cause you an impairment.

OK, I get it that some people really like to party, and some of you probably like to party. I still stand by my assertion that the distinction between "normal" and "disorder" is social/political rather than scientific. We could make the argument that many or most or all of us are here because of the irresponsible sexual behavior of our ancestors, and we could argue that such behavior is normal because, well, we're all here, and their irresponsibility enhanced their life rather than impeded it, at least in some cases. Either way, I think it's a political distinction rather than a scientific one.