Neurodivergent on Yik Yak | My friend who is self diagnosed with autism (and she doesn’t have it) told me that autism isn’t a disability and I shouldn’t make it my personality. Ma’am…there are several problematic and wrong things about what you just said.

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Neurodivergent 1d

My friend who is self diagnosed with autism (and she doesn’t have it) told me that autism isn’t a disability and I shouldn’t make it my personality. Ma’am…there are several problematic and wrong things about what you just said.

Anonymous 1d

Just curious, how do you know she doesn’t have it? Not saying I think she could have it, just wondering how you can tell

Anonymous 1d

I can’t even fathom trying to explain how that’s just… no. My mom said similar shit about me and my little brother’s dyslexia. “It’s not a learning disability, it’s a learning difference.” Respectfully, diva, it is a disability and just bc you can accommodate and work around it doesn’t mean it’s a “difference” 🫠

Anonymous 23h

My parents said the same thing that I dont need to ACT autistic just because Im diagnosed… Im not ACTING😩

Anonymous 22h

The doctor who diagnosed me went on a whole speech about how it’s “only a disability because society is capitalist and sucks” and told me that in the olden days I could’ve just been “the best seed counter on a farm.” not kidding. I would’ve still had no friends and sensory issues in the olden days. Also, not a chance that our level 3 autistic friends would’ve been just seen as “quirky” in the “olden days.” Correct me if I’m wrong.

Anonymous

#4 17h

I see a lot of people in medical fields thinking that way. One of my professors (an audiologist) said that if everyone was Deaf, it wouldn’t be a disability anymore. I’m not deaf so I don’t have that valid of an argument however, there are still safety concerns at hand and we would need accommodations and deafness isn’t one size fits all so we’d still all need different tools, making it still a disability. Why does everyone feel the need to demonize the word disabled??

Anonymous

#1 15h

For sure! Like, technically if everyone were Deaf it wouldn’t be a disability because it’d just be how humans *were*, but that doesn’t mean anything about safety concerns, like you said. I heard someone say that this is an important way of thinking though because if we don’t think this way, people will just accept that we can’t accommodate people and stop striving for the goal of an accessible society. I don’t know how I feel about that. I feel like we should be able to say…

Anonymous

#4 15h

…that we’re disabled, no matter what, and still strive towards the most accessible society we can reach.