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Judge said:
Autism is on a spectrum of traits and behaviors. Making some of us possibly exempt, while others don't quite fit into all the categories noted as exemptions.
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It isn't even a well-defined spectrum. ASD1 says I need minmal supports. I need zero supports. If anyone needs a support it's the ND who is competing with me for a job I want. I regard the DSM as more of a billing manual than anything else.
 
velociraptor said:
It isn't even a well-defined spectrum. ASD1 says I need minmal supports. I need zero supports. If anyone needs a support it's the ND who is competing with me for a job I want. I regard the DSM as more of a billing manual than anything else.
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Indeed. When you really delve into the DSM-V, it appears as a way to legitimize a murky description of what they aren't quite willing to admit to what they don't know.
 
The levels of ASD seem to be created for the purpose of disability claims more than any sort of true/pure knowledge, from the looks of it. I guess that they give the level 1 descriptor to the highest functioning autistic folk, regardless of whether the description exactly fits, or not.
 
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