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Rose Ⓐ 🏳️⚧️ (it/its)"autism" is not a disease, it does not have symptoms, it is not "treatable". No more than you can "treat" being gay. Being autistic is good and cool actually. Fuck anyone that would dare use that terminology against us.
simon gray@RosethornRangerTTV @actuallyautistic @gillianography Similarly ADHD - it's not ADHD, it's ADH, and continuing to add the D on to the end smacks of ableism
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Clare 🐻@gillianography @simon @RosethornRangerTTV @actuallyautistic
Or maybe N for neurotype? So ASN and ADHN
@RosethornRangerTTV @gillianography @CGBrooding @actuallyautistic N and C are better than D, fersure, but I think we can collectively do better still! Might it be too bold to suggest A for Ability?
@simon @RosethornRangerTTV @CGBrooding @actuallyautistic as long as you add the ‘a’ for ability to autism as well.
@simon @RosethornRangerTTV @gillianography @actuallyautistic
I like it
Although I don't have an ADHD neurotype, a complete name change is warranted when it comes to ADHD imho because the first D is deficit - boo
Autistic Voices United refers to ADHDers as 'Kinetics' and I think that's a step in the right (positive) direction
@CGBrooding @simon @RosethornRangerTTV @actuallyautistic why do autistic voices refer to adhders as kinetics? And why are autistic voices concerned with renaming adhd when perhaps they could spend more time coming up with a new acronym for autisitic people?
@gillianography @simon @RosethornRangerTTV @actuallyautistic
Not sure if this reply is directed at me or more broadly, but I think AVU is AuDHD so ADHD is relevant
For me personally, my son might be ADHD and my brother is dx ADHD
@gillianography @simon @RosethornRangerTTV @actuallyautistic
Not at all. I never implied that
I'm #ActuallyAutistic, as is my daughter, and ASD has never been my preferred terminology for either of us
Tania MelnyczukI have a diagnosis of ADHD.
I used to have hyperfocus and hyperactivity. It was nice.
Now I am 57. I don't have hyperfocus or hyperactivity anymore. I have deficit and disorder and I don't have attention.
I don't like it. I don't want to be like this. What is the right name for what I have now?
@RosethornRangerTTV @actuallyautistic @tania @gillianography Personally, I’d say the right name for it is whatever *you* consider to be the right name for *your* (emphasis for personalisation not for pokiness) personal circumstances; I’m a strong advocate of the principle that nobody gets to be the unelected spokesperson on behalf of their entire identity group, they speak only for themself. [1/4]
@RosethornRangerTTV @actuallyautistic @tania @gillianography But my point here is that since people with ‘disorders’ are stigmatised by ‘society’, then the steps to reducing that stigma is to change the perception of what a disorder actually means. The Social Model of disability holds that for the most part people are not disabled by their conditions, is the structure of society which makes their conditions disabling. [2/4]
@RosethornRangerTTV @actuallyautistic @tania @gillianography Thus whilst there is value in providing medical assistance where appropriate (eg hearing aids, glasses, operations), we should also focus on restructuring society to make society less disabling (eg replace steps with ramps, make websites work with assistive technology, etc). [3/4]
@RosethornRangerTTV @actuallyautistic @tania @gillianography So if we persuade society that it needs to adapt to neurodiversity rather than tell society that neurodiverse people are ‘disordered’, then surely that is the better strategic approach? [4/4]
PepperI'm 54, and still have the crazy focus, but I'm autistic rather than ADHD. My theory is people ebb and flow, and maybe you're just in a low focus time. I'm in perimenopause right now and it sucks so bad, it definitely interferes with my ability to concentrate. Have you gone through it? Maybe that was what dampened your superpowers?
What if you have Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, does it smack of ableism to call it a disorder, or does the rule only count for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity?
Ulick@RosethornRangerTTV @actuallyautistic yeah. On a different note, have you ever read Paul Cockshot. He surmises a way for workers to have ownership over means without markets using labouur voucher type ststem