No, these are my hobbies. Let’s face it. If I’d been an NT kiddo, or if I were an NT adult, my hobbies would never have been pathologized as “special interests”. They would have been acknowledged as hobbies, and if it was something I was really into, someone, be it a …
There are many, many, many excellent posts by other actually autistic people about the problem of functioning labels. Please note we are specifically talking about labels such as high, low, mild, severe, etc. Not the actual label of autistic. That’s a helpful one! I have linked to a lot of …
For those of you for whom using the telephone orally is stressful (all the time, or only when you’re talking to people you either don’t know well or aren’t comfortable with unless you’re in person for whatever reasons), how many times do you run across Tech Support or customer service …
Neither is disability. Neither is getting on disability. It’s not giving up either. It’s not a shameful word. It’s not a shameful concept. Why someone needs to get on disability is different for every person. Even if two people who both are go on SSDI or SSI are both …
