Depathologizing Asperger’s / autism ~ the diagnostic criteria edition

What if we removed Part D (the requirement for significant impairments in areas of functioning) from the diagnostic criteria?

(My Autism Is… (#AutismIs)

… missing things other people see, and seeing things other people miss … both a disability and a superpower … …

16 Words and phrases you might want to strike from your vocabulary right now, when referring to Asperger’s / autism

Apparently, this is the third post in an unintended-but-happily-accidental series of vocabulary-related posts. The other two can be found here: …

Asperger’s / autism vocabulary 201 ~ a proposal toward a 21st-century shift

Yesterday, I celebrated six months of awareness of my true nature: I am autistic (Asperger’s). This does not make me …

Truths about Asperger’s / autism

For the last three posts (Myths about Asperger’s & autism Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3), I droned on …

Myths about Asperger’s / autism ~ Part 1

I’ve been mulling over this for a long time, and it’s about time I wrote it.  This might get long, …