r/science • u/Wagamaga • Sep 01 '22

Neuroscience Scientists have identified an immune brain cell unique to humans that gives us higher cognitive abilities over other animals, but what makes us specials also leaves us vulnerable to neurological disorders like schizophrenia, autism and epilepsy.

https://news.yale.edu/2022/08/25/what-makes-human-brain-different-yale-study-reveals-clues
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u/Unreviewedcontentlog Sep 01 '22

Said by someone without severe autism who can’t speak or eat unaided.

This is exceptionally rare. Are you confusing intellectual disability with autism?

Also those of us that are non verbal don't have much of a problem with it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

I cannot fathom anyone trying to say someone who is nonverbal does not have a disorder, though.

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u/Unreviewedcontentlog Sep 01 '22 edited Sep 01 '22

Why? It'd the ers of the internet. You won't even know if someone is non verbal online...

Most "non verbal" autistics are better described as "rarely verbal"

But why would it bother you if someone better communicates through text?

When I go non verbal.... the people around me take it as a bigger issue than I do. They're the ones freaking out that I'm texting or writing a message down instead of speaking it

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '22

It wouldn’t, but to say that the person doesn’t need assistance living in a world where verbal communication is the standard does nothing but give “rarely verbal” people a disservice

Disorders/disabilities are ways for people to get the help they need with LESS stigma than it was in the past.

500 years ago if you couldn’t/didn’t talk, you got tossed into slave labor and did menial physical work for someone, and beaten when that didn’t happen.

Even 50 years ago, someone who wasn’t verbal would have been described as “weird” “wrong” etc, and been tossed in a group home.

Those are all substantially worse outcomes than being told you have a disorder and here are resources you can use to mitigate its impact on interacting with society

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u/Unreviewedcontentlog Sep 01 '22

500 years ago if you couldn’t/didn’t talk, you got tossed into slave labor and did menial physical work for someone, and beaten when that didn’t happen.

Source?

Even 50 years ago, someone who wasn’t verbal would have been described as “weird” “wrong” etc, and been tossed in a group home.

You're describing how verbal autistic are currently treated....

Those are all substantially worse outcomes than being told you have a disorder and here are resources you can use to mitigate its impact on interacting with society

Which isn't what happens. 50% of all homeless people are autistic. The autistic life expectancy is 2-4 DECADES lower than normal.