11-30-2017, 06:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-30-2017, 06:20 AM by Cynolove693.)
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On 11/28/2017 at 3:34 AM, zootrashcan said:
Autism isn't a mental illness fyi. Bringing it up doesn't need to 'prove' anything. Not everything is about performative respectability politics. Sometimes people just notice something about themselves and want to know if anyone else has the same experience.
Sadly it's a common misconception that autism is an mental illness, when it's actually a neurodevelopmental disorder; which in layman's terms means that a person with autism has a difference in the way thier brain developed compared to non-autistic people.
Autistism isn't a sickness, some people with autism are actually found to have abnormally high IQs.. however there is social and psychological drawbacks that come with autism, people with autism are different not mentally ill though, I hate hearing people say that autism is an illness and people with it are somehow a lesser being, I've heard it all my life and it's not true..
