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Autism is a disability. We are not afraid of that word.

A lot of campaigns about autism avoid the word disability. Neurodiversity, difference, divergence, variant, are used instead. The reasoning is usually kind.

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A lot of campaigns about autism avoid the word disability. Neurodiversity, difference, divergence, variant, are used instead. The reasoning is usually kind. Autism as a disability is the old deficit frame, and we are trying to get out of that frame.

We are not trying to get out of it far enough to lose access to it.

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