I saw this on a site I recently joined–the Aspies for Freedom community.  It’s a place where folks with autism can talk and blog, read articles, and such.  What I like most is that they are not for a cure–a movement I have come to support in recent months.  So, here it is:

Autistic adults can seem very much like typical adults if all you have to go on is a sample of something they have written, so diagnosing autistic adults or undiagnosing them based on what they write is pretty pointless. Many autistic adults can even pass for typical adults if you sort of tilt your head at an angle and squint and if they aren’t under too much pressure and/or aren’t cutting loose at a Star Trek convention.

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