I know there’s a lot we just don’t know about ASD and that this is likely one of those things. It’s that’s true, what are some the theories for this?
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There is a growing field of what experts call “neurodiversity” and the basic hypothesis is that everyone’s brains work differently and that all individuals exist on a spectrum of social and cognitive comforts and abilities. So it’s less that people “have autism” like a specific illness, but rather that all individuals have various qualities and that we term people that fall within the norm “neuronormative” and people that fall outside of that norm “autistic”. So autism isn’t defined by the positive possesion of a specific set of traits, but rather defined as a negative possession, or lack, of certain traits. Since those traits are really broad, there is a really broad definition of autism.
Note – this isn’t, like, a true medical/psychological science (yet) but rather more of a social movement to change our collective view of neurodiverse individuals. The point being that autism is only a “disability” when viewed from the narrow lens of our neuronormative oriented culture. If we are able to change our cultural flexibility to allow better integration people of across the neurodiversity spectrum, the “disability” will disappear.
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