Autism and Functioning Labels

another crowd that can't see two independent categories with overlapping surface forms is the actually autistic community. this group stigmatizes low functioning autistic people and demands they must be kept out of sight and their needs marginalized.

This was illustrated earlier this year with their confused crusade against Sia's movie, "Music," which depicted a low- functioning autistic girl. The high-functioning community saw a girl with a condition millions of kids have as somehow a harmful stereotype. This belief is fundamentally in the name of returning certain high-functioning autistic adults to a sense of control they feel was stolen from them by their own therapist, by giving them inappropriate control over the treatment of low-functioning autistic people generally.