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    Could eliminating the autism diagnosis reduce harm/discrimination?

    NOT JUST NOT NAMING THE ISSUE> READ NOT GIVING THE COPS AND THE SCHOOLS POWER TO HURT YOU! JUST NOT GIVING THEM POWER TO HURT YOU! SIMPLE AS THAT! BULLIES ARE NOT AS BAD AS BULLIES IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM! YOU THINK BULLIES ARE BAD? HOW ABOUT TRY BULLIES NOT EVEN DARKNESS OR TIME CAN...
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    Could eliminating the autism diagnosis reduce harm/discrimination?

    Yeah, but they did before they put you in a place you could not even fight back, right? Before autism, the bullies had no offical power. They could taunt you and ruin playground, but that was it, rigth? Did they have the power to TAKE YOU OUT OF CLASS AND RUIN YOUR EDUCATION? DID THEY HAVE...
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    Could eliminating the autism diagnosis reduce harm/discrimination?

    EXPLAIN. EXPLAIN WHY I DESERVE TO LOSE MY BASIC PHYSICAL SAFETY! EXPLAIN WHY I SHOULD LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS! EXPLAIN WHY IT IS BETTER! HERE IS YOUR CHANCE! EXPLAIN EXPLAIN! EXPLAIN WHY IT IS BETTER TO BE HURT THAN NEUTRAL EXPLAIN WHY IT IS BETTER TO HAVE BULLIES AND A SCHOOL THAT WANTS...
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    Could eliminating the autism diagnosis reduce harm/discrimination?

    How about we just agree to something basic, which seems to me to be hard to deny. It's better to be bullied by a couple bullies than to let even more bullies to the fight. You're arguing to MAKE SOMETHING WORSE WHEN YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST LEFT IT NEUTRAL! Please, for the love of god, do...
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    Could eliminating the autism diagnosis reduce harm/discrimination?

    You kidding? being left alone to deal with being weird is better than a system built from the ground up to deprive you of your rights. Yeah, well, again, why is it any better to have a system that names you something that helps make it worse. Without a system = you are bullied With a...
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    Could eliminating the autism diagnosis reduce harm/discrimination?

    I feel like I am going to get in trouble for this, because it goes against a lot of what people say and stand for and want. Okay, here goes: For me personally, and probably for others, it would be better if the autism diagnosis was totally non existent like it was in the 1800s versus what...
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    Could eliminating the autism diagnosis reduce harm/discrimination?

    Okay, maybe it's hopeless. I guess nothing can be done. I hope everyone gets what I am trying to say. AS for me, the diagnosis has been really horrible, because it ended up just getting me a ton of patronizing "accommodations" that I neither wanted nor needed, and which I could not get rid...
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    Addictions

    I am addicted to basically anything that I can get my hands on that puts me into intoxication. So this is often alcohol, but if I can get pills, I would rather use those. If I can get pot, I might use that too. Anything." I do not always use it, but if I can I use it to the maximum. I...
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    Could eliminating the autism diagnosis reduce harm/discrimination?

    This is a topic most autistic people (and I am one, basically) seem to really disagree on, but I am going to try to present it respectfully and hope nobody will get angry. Right now we have two groups we divide people up into: Autistic and non-autistic or neurotypical. The neurotypical group...
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    Despirate to get autism diagnosis removed...

    I think I titled this wrong. I don't know what I want! Best I can say: if you were ever diagnosed with mild autism and they said "It's fine. No big deal. No problem with you. We're going to treat you like everyone your age. You deserve respect" Well... you found heaven. Wish I had...
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    Despirate to get autism diagnosis removed...

    I guess I do not know if I should have the diagnosis removed. I wish more than anything in the world never to have been diagnosed with autism, because I believe I could have made it without the diagnosis. I could have gotten by, and I was hurt so much by the people who came after. Mostly, my...
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    Despirate to get autism diagnosis removed...

    Um, wow. That was not what I expected or what I came here for and I do not know what to say. They say autism is a lack of empathy, and I disagree, but look at that, maybe I am wrong. I share that I was abused for more than half my life over this title, and that it drove me to try suicide, and...
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    Despirate to get autism diagnosis removed...

    Okay, let me start off with this. I've met a lot of people diagnosed with autism and happy with it. They're happy with who they are. They are just... well they're okay and they accept it. That's good for you. I wish you well. If you do not find it to have stigma on it, then that's fine...
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