What's wrong with the neurodiversity movement?

ingen-u-e-deactivated20160521:

1) neurodiversity is a fact, autism alone doesn’t make you neurodivergent, everyone naturally is 2) it was founded on the idea that autism is a way of life not a disorder 3) autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder by fact 4) most in the community are obviously high functioning and have no right to speak for the majority of those who ate extremely disabled. 5) they don’t know what ableism is and throw it around because their arguments suck 6) claim pro cure means feticide 7) claim curing autism is somehow genocide and the eradication of their existence when autism does not define their existence, it is a gene 8) if pro cure is eugenics then curing genetic cancers might as well be the same 9) constant contradictions in the community 10) on tumblr alot of them are self diagnosed and probably aren’t autistic lol

hey douchebag!! lets break this down

1) Autism absolutely does make you neurodivergent, not everyone can be neurodivergent because then what are they diverging from? There is a typical and there is a diversion, neurotypicals and neurodivergent people, the latter including Autistic people

2) A way of life? um not quite, whilst some people do oppose the idea of it being a disorder we all acknowledge it as a difference in our neurotype, hence the neurodiversity title, we don’t see it solely as a lifestyle

3) ‘Fact’ meaning what scientists tell you, you know those subjective people who aren’t above criticism…but anyway yeah sure it’s a neurodevelopmental disorder…whats your point? That because of that we shouldn;t demand respect? lmao

4) Functioning labels are a disgusting silencing tactic created by allistic people in order to invalidate our experiences, wherein the people labelled ‘high’ are seen as not understanding the ~true struggle~ whilst those labelled ‘low’ are seen as not understanding anything enough to defend themselves (allistic people’s opinions are always relevant and important though…) Not to mention they are hopelessly inaccurate, no Autistic person fits neatly into either box, how we ~function~ depends on what area you are looking at and also it fluctuates constantly?

5) What precisely do you think ableism is, just wondering? :)

6) Too many Autistic children have been abused, tortured, poisoned or killed in the name of curing them so like it’s not exactly unfounded :)

7) We don’t actually know exactly what Autism is caused by, so your identification of it as ‘a gene’ shows your ignorance congrats! Also aiming for the eradication of an entire people based on a single people is basically the definition of genocide (and yes to try and ‘cure’ us is to eradicate us, being Autistic is intrinsic to who we are, it is not something that has to be removed for any reason than allistic people’s benefit)

8) Don;t compare Autism to cancer, they are completely different things? Like you do understand that right?

9) Yes wow! It’s almost like we’re a massive diverse community that you can;t generalise who often argue and discover new viewpoints and develop ideas and aren;t just the rigid monolith you like to think lol

10) Some Autistic people on and off here are self diagnosed sure! That doesn;t mean they’re not Autistic though, to define Autistic people as only those acknowledged by the medical profession is to give more power to the medical institution and remove it form Autistic people as well as hopelessly ignoring class, race, gender, location and disability barriers to getting a pro diagnosis

11) You’re bad and should feel bad