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Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'

Torka posted:

It's a problem that the diagnosis is so broad that you can be told someone is "autistic" and not know whether that means they're a functioning adult who really likes trains or a drooling mental patient who needs diapers at 30.

Exactly.

I would not want to bring a severely autistic child into the world. But there needs to be definition between people who are 'high-functioning' and those who aren't, because when people say autism they're generally meaning the latter in my experience. Didn't they split Aspergers from autism at some point recently?

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