@UFO sorry, I changed my wording to "haven't encountered a single person" to try to leave room for the fact that I don't know what every single person on here knows or accepts, it hasn't come up in anywhere near all dicussions. Also I may misunderstand people.
My apologies to you and anyone else I have offended by over-generalizing and presuming and even in my edited words being unclear.
@Terpsichore , there is nothing wrong with those words. Some of us get touchy when someone calls themselves "mild" and then proceeds to say anyone who is not "mild" or ASD 1,1 is x,y,z things they may or may not be...or makes it seem like they are asserting that having certain difficulties (e.g. inability to speak, or severe self-injurious meltdowns - and I don't mean deliberately/intentionally self-injurious as if the person is thinking clearly about and intentionally, with any amount of self-control or deliberateness, doing any self-injurious action or with any self-control or normally-aware/thinking-deliberateness anything at all they are doing in said meltdown, in fact) or doing certain things (e.g. constant rocking, hand-flapping, or any self-regulating behaviors that look truly bizarre to most other people including fellow ASDers who cannot understand them or why they are happening) means a person cannot ever have any abilities a "mild" autistic has and/or also means they must have a whole assortment of other behaviours or difficulties that some but not all more "severe" autistic people have.
Nothing wrong with describing your autism as it is for you, you're entitled to do that and it should be respected by others,
One issue that can become problematic and offensive is when a person uses other people's autism as a comparative justification for their use of whatever label like "mild" and in doing so completely erases and misrepresents the lived reality of other autistic people's experiences,
Beyond that issue I don't think there is any valid reason for anyone to take issue with the words you use to describe yourself -- they don't know you like you know yourself and they don't live your life. It is your choice how to self-identify, not theirs.
My apologies to you and anyone else I have offended by over-generalizing and presuming and even in my edited words being unclear.
@Terpsichore , there is nothing wrong with those words. Some of us get touchy when someone calls themselves "mild" and then proceeds to say anyone who is not "mild" or ASD 1,1 is x,y,z things they may or may not be...or makes it seem like they are asserting that having certain difficulties (e.g. inability to speak, or severe self-injurious meltdowns - and I don't mean deliberately/intentionally self-injurious as if the person is thinking clearly about and intentionally, with any amount of self-control or deliberateness, doing any self-injurious action or with any self-control or normally-aware/thinking-deliberateness anything at all they are doing in said meltdown, in fact) or doing certain things (e.g. constant rocking, hand-flapping, or any self-regulating behaviors that look truly bizarre to most other people including fellow ASDers who cannot understand them or why they are happening) means a person cannot ever have any abilities a "mild" autistic has and/or also means they must have a whole assortment of other behaviours or difficulties that some but not all more "severe" autistic people have.
Nothing wrong with describing your autism as it is for you, you're entitled to do that and it should be respected by others,
One issue that can become problematic and offensive is when a person uses other people's autism as a comparative justification for their use of whatever label like "mild" and in doing so completely erases and misrepresents the lived reality of other autistic people's experiences,
Beyond that issue I don't think there is any valid reason for anyone to take issue with the words you use to describe yourself -- they don't know you like you know yourself and they don't live your life. It is your choice how to self-identify, not theirs.
