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The myth of Autism
'Autism' assumes a condition from a set of behaviours and uses this
condition to infer that what is observed are 'symptoms'. Yes, you are right, the concept 'Autism' is circular, incoherent. I worked for 7 years with people with disabilities, some of whom were very socially challenging. Not once did I think 'he's got autism'. Then one day someone said 'he's got autism'. This meant nothing to me. I already knew the person, now I am told he 'has' (has?)something. So the only time I EVER found this 'autism' was when someone labelled someone else with it. Now why would anyone want to do that? And that's precisely what autism is - a vicious, unhelpful label, a conceptually irrelevant, confused notion. Try this link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistic_culture |
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