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You think people with mental disorders are stupid? Pull your head out of your ass. Many great minds had mental disorders and I'm fairly certain they are/were far smarter than you will ever be.

I have APD (I won't say the full name since too many people think it means something else) and schizophrenia.

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You think people with mental disorders are stupid? Pull your head out of your ass. Many great minds had mental disorders and I'm fairly certain they are/were far smarter than you will ever be.  

I have APD (I won't say the full name since too many people think it means something else) and schizophrenia.  

 

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Auditory processing disorder?

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I am not disabled, but my sister has Down's syndrome and I work with disabled young people.

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I have FOP, doesn't mean I'm not smart.

I hate when people assume you have nothing going for you just because you have a disability.

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It's not, and I kind of find it offensive.

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Btw, I don't think autism should be classed as a disability.

It's not, and I kind of find it offensive.

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Perhaps the 'milder' forms of autism aren't particularly disabling, but it can be.

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Btw, I don't think autism should be classed as a disability.  

 It's not, and I kind of find it offensive.

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Perhaps the 'milder' forms of autism aren't particularly disabling, but it can be.

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How many kids do you know with autism?

No form of autism is disabling.

Bad parenting perhaps, but not autism itself.

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Btw, I don't think autism should be classed as a disability.  

  It's not, and I kind of find it offensive.

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 Perhaps the 'milder' forms of autism aren't particularly disabling, but it can be.

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How many kids do you know with autism?

No form of autism is disabling.

Bad parenting perhaps, but not autism itself.

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Quite a lot... I would say as a guess at least ten, most of them severely autistic.

I don't believe that the problems autistic children have are due to bad parenting, and I don't believe that autism is not a disability.

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Btw, I don't think autism should be classed as a disability.    

 It's not, and I kind of find it offensive.

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Perhaps the 'milder' forms of autism aren't particularly disabling, but it can be.

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How many kids do you know with autism?  

No form of autism is disabling.  

Bad parenting perhaps, but not autism itself.

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What? My cousin has severe autism and simply cannot function on his own. At all.

Fair enough if you think classing autism as a disability is offensive, but I find you blaming bad parenting as a cause for it being disabling offensive. Just wow.

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How many kids do you know with autism?

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Roughly 30, raging from almost mld to sld and most points in between.

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No form of autism is disabling.

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How do you define "disabling"? I'd say people with learning disabilities (especially children) are the most vunerable group of people on the planet.

If a disability is a "condition or function judged to be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual of their group" (here) then I'd say asd is a disability.

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You think people with mental disorders are stupid? Pull your head out of your ass. Many great minds had mental disorders and I'm fairly certain they are/were far smarter than you will ever be.  

Yeah!  I have straight A's and I have autism!

 

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Btw, I don't think autism should be classed as a disability.    

 It's not, and I kind of find it offensive.

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Perhaps the 'milder' forms of autism aren't particularly disabling, but it can be.

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How many kids do you know with autism?  

No form of autism is disabling.  

Bad parenting perhaps, but not autism itself.

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What? My cousin has severe autism and simply cannot function on his own. At all.

Fair enough if you think classing autism as a disability is offensive, but I find you blaming bad parenting as a cause for it being disabling offensive. Just wow.

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I can't quite see why labelling someone who is severely autistic as 'disabled' is offensive. I can perhaps see the reason the point is being made if it refers solely to people with mild autism... maybe.

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I find you blaming bad parenting as a cause for it being disabling offensive.

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How many kids do you know with autism?

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Roughly 30, raging from almost mld to sld and most points in between.

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No form of autism is disabling.

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How do you define "disabling"? I'd say people with learning disabilities (especially children) are the most vunerable group of people on the planet.

If a disability is a "condition or function judged to be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual of their group" (here) then I'd say asd is a disability.

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If we're going to take a word, and use it literally, then I'd say almost everyone with mild depression to living in a vegetitive state is mentally retarded.

Have a good night, sir.

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