Comment by dns_snek
1 day ago
> We label everything now though
Are "quirky" and "odd" not labels? How about "weirdo" and "creep", are those not labels?
These romanticized ideas of what autism is (or used to be) hit a brick wall when you consider that 2/3 of people with autism have contemplated suicide and 1/3 of people with autism have attempted it. Most of it could probably be attributed to social rejection, exclusion, and isolation perpetuated by people who don't suffer from these disorders.
The amount of condescension in this thread is astounding. People who have zero experience with autism have decided to split the autistic community into 'high-functioning' and 'low-functioning' groups and declare that the former is perfectly fine. I don't even understand what their problem is.