"Autism spectrum is wide enough to have very different prototypes within it. On one end we have profound autism, representing someone with severe autistic traits who is completely dependent on others for care and has substantial intellectual disability or very limited language ability. At the other end, we have successful nerdy individuals with autistic traits and superior intelligence, often seen in science or academia, à la Sheldon Cooper."
He's just another ableist crank who thinks people with intellectual disabilities who are also autistic are “profoundly” or “severely” autistic. Neither of those are actual diagnostic categories; they were invented by “autism parents” (not autistic parents; parents of autistic children) as a way to exclude everyone except level-3 autistic kids with intellectual disabilities.
Then he throws in the “superior intelligence” nonsense.
No.
Just no.
More ableist BS.
I’m a late-diagnosed “level 1” autistic adult (also ADHD) who works full-time as a network admin. Functioning labels don’t make someone “less autistic”; they just reflect different support needs.
He also brings up BPD. Lots of autistic women get misdiagnosed with BPD. My wife was one of them. Once I dug into how autism presents differently in men vs. women, it became obvious she checked all the boxes. She later got an autism diagnosis too.
The android app had stopped working for me a couple of months before the new Pebble came out, so my Old Pebble Time was at EOL, and unusable.
The new Pebble app by Core devices made it work again.
Rebble didn't do that.
They were effective only keeping the old devices on life support.
Don't get me wrong, it's awesome that Rebble came along and extended the life of our Pebbles.
I'm siding slightly more with Eric and Co. than with Rebble.
We still do not use chip-and-pin on credit cards in the US. We use chip-and-signature for most credit cards.
I'm not saying there aren't credit cards with chip-and-PIN, there are a some.
We do use chip-and-PIN on most debit cards, but even that can be bypassed on 99% of terminals to fall back to chip-and-signature.
"Autism spectrum is wide enough to have very different prototypes within it. On one end we have profound autism, representing someone with severe autistic traits who is completely dependent on others for care and has substantial intellectual disability or very limited language ability. At the other end, we have successful nerdy individuals with autistic traits and superior intelligence, often seen in science or academia, à la Sheldon Cooper."
He's just another ableist crank who thinks people with intellectual disabilities who are also autistic are “profoundly” or “severely” autistic. Neither of those are actual diagnostic categories; they were invented by “autism parents” (not autistic parents; parents of autistic children) as a way to exclude everyone except level-3 autistic kids with intellectual disabilities.
Then he throws in the “superior intelligence” nonsense. No. Just no. More ableist BS.
I’m a late-diagnosed “level 1” autistic adult (also ADHD) who works full-time as a network admin. Functioning labels don’t make someone “less autistic”; they just reflect different support needs.
He also brings up BPD. Lots of autistic women get misdiagnosed with BPD. My wife was one of them. Once I dug into how autism presents differently in men vs. women, it became obvious she checked all the boxes. She later got an autism diagnosis too.