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Let’s talk about Autism and the problem with functioning labels

article image placeholderThe problem with Functioning Labels
Essentially, what these labels are doing or implying is that the default in society is not having autism. When that's not really fair. People with autism are still humans and are still people, and just because they may not be neurotypical does not mean that they shouldn't be considered abnormal, but that was just a paraphrasing of some of the things that Chloe says just to give you an insight

Princess Aspien talks about misconceptions and issues with functioning labels from her perspective https://bit.ly/3iEwayX

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@liora
Liora H
@liora · 1:59

People first!

So the first thing we watched in class was this short video with a lot of young people, and all of these young people had different disabilities. Some of them have down syndrome, some of them have autism, some of them have spina bifida. And they were all just saying, hey, my name is so and so and I like these things. And I have this disability. And the point of this video was to make it clear to viewers that these people are more than just their disability
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