cybervegan on Nostr: nprofile1q…8wjs2 "Children who get an autism diagnosis — even in its mildest ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqd8altdvrmk5nvk6xhdc00w7x0p4pfn7kgwca0enakrrchw96skdsl8wjs2 (nprofile…wjs2) "Children who get an autism diagnosis — even in its mildest form, what used to be called Asperger syndrome — can get allowances and special consideration in both the academic resources available to them, as well as their academic performance."
Milder form? You mean "less disturbing form"?
And pushing the narrative that Autistic kids get preferential treatment? That's just untrue. I don't know what reality you live in, but in the UK, it's slow, uncertain and painfully unhelpful.
"autism doesn’t have a drug to treat it" nor does lefthandedness... do you mean a drug that makes us more socially acceptable? Or a drug that makes us "normal" by rewiring our neurodivergent brains? Or maybe a drug that makes "normal" people not bothered by our differences?
"Yet I don’t know of any good mainstream media stories that have covered all the secondary (usually academic) benefits children with these kinds of disorders can get." pity we're not all savants with an amazing superpower, right? Going through school as an Austistic person was a bundle of laughs. Not. My neurodivergent kids have also not found any particular "(usually academic) benefits" either.
This takes the absolute biscuit: "Autism, like ADHD, remains a serious and often debilitating mental illness".
It's not a mental illness. It's a neurological difference and you should (and I suspect do) know better.
#ActuallAutistic #ableism #AbleistBullshit
Milder form? You mean "less disturbing form"?
And pushing the narrative that Autistic kids get preferential treatment? That's just untrue. I don't know what reality you live in, but in the UK, it's slow, uncertain and painfully unhelpful.
"autism doesn’t have a drug to treat it" nor does lefthandedness... do you mean a drug that makes us more socially acceptable? Or a drug that makes us "normal" by rewiring our neurodivergent brains? Or maybe a drug that makes "normal" people not bothered by our differences?
"Yet I don’t know of any good mainstream media stories that have covered all the secondary (usually academic) benefits children with these kinds of disorders can get." pity we're not all savants with an amazing superpower, right? Going through school as an Austistic person was a bundle of laughs. Not. My neurodivergent kids have also not found any particular "(usually academic) benefits" either.
This takes the absolute biscuit: "Autism, like ADHD, remains a serious and often debilitating mental illness".
It's not a mental illness. It's a neurological difference and you should (and I suspect do) know better.
#ActuallAutistic #ableism #AbleistBullshit