I am highly verbal as well. People overestimate how well I can function. I can't work either. I am in a relationship. I have a part time carer because I have a hard time looking after myself. I have trouble with activities of daily living. ADL's as they are called where I live. People can't understand that you could be fairly intellectual but you can't look after yourself. But they are different brain functions.
I don't think neurodiversity, as presented by the NDM is at all scientific, so whilst Signer was inconsistent, I think she was at least honest in stating that the concept was political not scientific. Singer (like Chapman) wanted to challenge the idea of normality and she used autism etc as a tool to do that, making the false comparison as so many NDM types to, with homosexuality (which I think is due to potential influence of Queer theory - and it's concept that normality is an oppressive social construct that needs to be overturned through the process of 'queering'. - on Judy Singer's thought). It is hard to make the case that autism is simply a neutral difference and that the disability it causes is primarily or solely due to society in anyone other than the most minimally impaired, which is why Singer and the NDM foregrounds the experiences of the least affected.
I am highly verbal as well. People overestimate how well I can function. I can't work either. I am in a relationship. I have a part time carer because I have a hard time looking after myself. I have trouble with activities of daily living. ADL's as they are called where I live. People can't understand that you could be fairly intellectual but you can't look after yourself. But they are different brain functions.
I don't think neurodiversity, as presented by the NDM is at all scientific, so whilst Signer was inconsistent, I think she was at least honest in stating that the concept was political not scientific. Singer (like Chapman) wanted to challenge the idea of normality and she used autism etc as a tool to do that, making the false comparison as so many NDM types to, with homosexuality (which I think is due to potential influence of Queer theory - and it's concept that normality is an oppressive social construct that needs to be overturned through the process of 'queering'. - on Judy Singer's thought). It is hard to make the case that autism is simply a neutral difference and that the disability it causes is primarily or solely due to society in anyone other than the most minimally impaired, which is why Singer and the NDM foregrounds the experiences of the least affected.
Spot on! NDM uses autism to challange normality and once they 'achieve' this we are thrown under the bus lol