I too found this insightful. I live in Brazil, and it's basically the same here. You need to get an official diagnosis of ASD via psychological testing, to qualify for assistance. To the Brazilian government's credit, the support is substantial, but, yeah, there's that D (or T in Portuguese, for transtorno, but anyhow). Nevertheless, we help each other, and even the government helps us, for all sorts of reasons that aren't deemed disorders or pathologies. So, surely, we can flip the script here!
I still think that people with aspergers autism (ICD-10) are more intelligent, than what you call people with 'severe' autism. but we'll never know for shure, because, as you said, they don't talk. If you still gauge intelligence by putting together a picture story of crooks, then, something is wrong with the measurement of intelligence anyway.
I too found this insightful. I live in Brazil, and it's basically the same here. You need to get an official diagnosis of ASD via psychological testing, to qualify for assistance. To the Brazilian government's credit, the support is substantial, but, yeah, there's that D (or T in Portuguese, for transtorno, but anyhow). Nevertheless, we help each other, and even the government helps us, for all sorts of reasons that aren't deemed disorders or pathologies. So, surely, we can flip the script here!
I still think that people with aspergers autism (ICD-10) are more intelligent, than what you call people with 'severe' autism. but we'll never know for shure, because, as you said, they don't talk. If you still gauge intelligence by putting together a picture story of crooks, then, something is wrong with the measurement of intelligence anyway.
Thanks for explaining that, Pascale 🩵