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Is this phrase acceptable to describe autistic people?

People need to get over their sensitivity of words they don't like. I don't take offense to being labeled Mentally Ill as a neurological disorder is technically just that. You will be much happier in life if you learn to laugh things off rather than being upset by everything.
I cant forget the people labeled mentally ill that were gassed by the nazis (let me be clear not a gas chamber or vehicle but a hose rammed down their throat in what is kindly called a sanitorium)
 
The reminds me of a time I spoke with a person online. We were starting to get along, but then one day, he was laughing at me because plans fell through and he got interested in something else. I told him that I try to respect that everyone has a schedule including myself, but that I did not appreciate him laughing at me with "lol" and that there was no real context for a joke. I told him all this. He was not physically attracted to me (it was through a dating app) and we still considered being friends. He made one last reply saying that he was thinking of blocking me but that I was too nice all the other times and felt I at least deserved a response that I was making a big deal about nothing.

I didn't block him from memory, but we just didn't talk after that.

Like a year or two later, he joined an anime group that I was in and happened to be a co-organizer of. He signed up to attend an event. I let a few friends know of my experience with this individual. We would still welcome him, but I would not bring this incident up unless he did and I would also not have him over at my place. A few days later, he left the group instead.
 
@Streetwise You are speaking of events that happened in a foreign country over 70 years ago. Yes I am quite familiar of the atrocities committed by the Nazis but it is not happening in the USA today as far as I know. If you have information that it is still happening please provide a link.
 
People need to get over their sensitivity of words they don't like. I don't take offense to being labeled Mentally Ill as a neurological disorder is technically just that. You will be much happier in life if you learn to laugh things off rather than being upset by everything.
Actually developmental disorders such as ASD are not mental illness. Calling someone with ASD mentally ill may or may not be offensive, but it is incorrect (assuming no co-mormid mental illness).
 
I don’t agree either that ASD is a mental illness, that’s just not true. Incidentally I read the link about the Mayo Clinic and it never mentioned ASD being a mental illnesses either.

What it did say was “Mental illness can begin at any age, from childhood through later adult years, but most cases begin earlier in life.”
Can ASD ‘begin’ at any age? I don’t believe so, either you have it, or you don’t.
 
@NothingToSeeHere Disorder is just a nicer word for mental illness.
Mental illness - Symptoms and causes
The difference is between developmental disorder and mental illness. A mental illness is a change from a persons normal and healthy mood/thinking/behaviour, where as a developmental disorder is the brain being fundamentally wired differently, it may be different from other people but it is the healthy norm for that person, and thus not a mental illness.

If you want to think of ASD as a mental illness that's fine, but... it's factually wrong.
 
It's a developmental disorder, not a mental disorder. That's the incorrect bit. Developmental =/= mental.

It could, probably, be correctly termed a neurological disorder as well. Though I do not have any sort of medical degree and am just speculating here.
I personally don’t think neurology is that advanced that you would be incorrect, if there is still !not !a drug to cure !Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis !after 19 !years I think I’m very close to the truth.
 
Y'all believe what you want, that is your right. I will take the word of the two Psychiatrists that told me abnormal wiring of the brain is a mental illness.
 
Y'all believe what you want, that is your right. I will take the word of the two Psychiatrists that told me abnormal wiring of the brain is a mental illness.

The psych and medical people who work with me say it is not a mental illness ... lots of specialists say it is not.
 
Y'all believe what you want, that is your right. I will take the word of the two Psychiatrists that told me abnormal wiring of the brain is a mental illness.
That's your prerogative of course :blush: Personally I prefer to believe the leading autism experts and latest research when it comes to these things.
 
I was curious to an extent I guess but think I was mainly interested in what I was doing on the computer, I couldn't help hearing them converse. The kitchen door is open normally and the kitchen is practically next to the kitchen.
 

So as someone with Aspergers would you consider yourself mentally ill? I’m just wondering, because I have a diagnosis and I wouldn’t.

Surely an illness can be treated, it would go through phases of being nonexistent, mild or more severe? ASD doesn’t work like that, well for me anyway I don’t have bad ASD days and good ASD days, I just have days. I don’t get medication for my ASD or any treatment and I’m not recognised in UK law as having a mental illness despite being diagnosed.

That’s not to say there aren’t people with ASD who also have a recognised mental illness or Comorbid condition that requires medication or therapy etc, I’m sure that is the case. However, ASD on it’s own without anything else is not an illness which fluctuates, it’s nothing more or less than having a brain which is permanently wired slightly differently from the majority of other humans.
 
Yes I consider myself mentally ill. I do not see it as necessarily a bad thing nor did I consider myself mentally ill when I was younger due to ignorance on the subject. It was only after speaking with the Navy Captain psychologist that is helping me get my discharge upgraded that I reflected on my life, did research and reconsidered my position on the matter. I do not deny Autism is a PPD I believe it to be both as it isn't my severe SPD sensitivity that causes the irrational, abnormal thoughts I have had all my life and that and gastrointestinal problems are the only comorbid problem I have.
 
Yes I consider myself mentally ill. I do not see it as necessarily a bad thing nor did I consider myself mentally ill when I was younger due to ignorance on the subject. It was only after speaking with the Navy Captain psychologist that is helping me get my discharge upgraded that I reflected on my life, did research and reconsidered my position on the matter. I do not deny Autism is a PPD I believe it to be both as it isn't my severe SPD sensitivity that causes the irrational, abnormal thoughts I have had all my life and that and gastrointestinal problems are the only comorbid problem I have.

I’m sure no one here would consider mental illness a bad thing, it’s not likely to be unfairly stigmatised on this site like it might be other places.

What do you mean by “I do not deny autism is a PPD I believe it to be both?” Am I correct in thinking you are believe autism is a mental illness and a Purified protein derivative or do you mean something else by PPD?

If you could post some links to the information which you researched that led to your conclusion that autism is a mental illness I would be grateful to have a look. I think you’re wrong, but I’m willing to be educated.
 

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