If I had a nickel for every eloquent person who claims to have autism...

04/08/11 12:25

I just read about a series highlighting people with autism writing about their feelings, stories, and earliest recollections. First, let’s stop and redefine for a moment, people! If someone with autism is writing their inner most thoughts in a coherent, easy to understand manner, they have just excluded themselves from the diagnosis of autism! Remember, autism is characterized by a COMMUNICATION disorder, which means that if you can eloquently argue your case that you are indeed autistic, guess what? You’ve just lost the debate!!!

I’m terribly sorry if I’m breaking some social norm by which it is considered “unseemly” to question the diagnosis of a person with autism; however, it does a huge disservice to people who actually have autism to consider these individuals (who may or may not have Asperger’s Syndrome or be on the autism spectrum at all) as in any way suffering from the same disorder!!!