The medical model in the diagnosis of autistic people focuses entirely on the identification and "treatment" of symptoms, and fails to acknowledge the obvious underlying causes, ...
i.e. the sources of trauma in industrialised societies, which connect the dis-ease of autistic people with the symptoms experienced:
1. The mental and physical health impact of industrialisation in terms of sensory overload and commodification of human relationships.
2. The W.E.I.R.D. social norms that present the hyper-competitive industrialised social operating model as a form of "progress".
3. Behaviourism: the pervasive use of coercive techniques for perpetuating W.E.I.R.D. social norms.
4. The normalisation of social power gradients, to legitimise the use of coercive techniques and dehumanising treatments.
5. The uncritical promotion of abstract group identities, to make human behaviour more predictable and humans more exploitable in the name of abstract financial profit.
The cultural bias that is baked into the pathologising framing of the diagnostic process compounds the trauma and perpetuates internalised ableism.
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