tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post49155944665936443..comments2024-03-14T18:26:18.208-07:00Comments on autism's gadfly: My Autism Parenting Magazine article on male/female sex ratios in autism jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14972394536850151087noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-11623379351354662342019-03-06T17:11:37.545-08:002019-03-06T17:11:37.545-08:00By their logic, is it also sexist that autoimmune ...By their logic, is it also sexist that autoimmune diseases are more common in women?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8353442983052145851.post-14300094315696988172019-02-14T13:32:26.244-08:002019-02-14T13:32:26.244-08:00Thank you, Jonathan for your continued effort to p...Thank you, Jonathan for your continued effort to paint a better picture of autism. Some autism advocates are not the only ones who distort the realities of disabilities. These disabilities advocates, neurologically focused or otherwise, rightfully lobby for all levels of assistance for their specific disabilities and rightfully so. This includes community funded and assistance with care giving, affirmative action in housing, higher education and employment. Then they will also trivialize their disabilities and call them other "abilities" within the range of normal, not <i>real</i> disabilities, in order to deflect stigma attached with being disabled. When they want help, the are disabled. But in other social circumstances they insist they are not really disabled, just different. The ND autism movement plays this double standard, too. Autism is a disability when it suits them, but when it doesn't it somehow becomes hidden in some women. Now you see it, now you don't. This muddling and trivializing hurts people who are already under enough burdens of their impairments.schaferatsprynethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00263422743462718045noreply@blogger.com