Autistic self-advocate, PhD student, mum to autistic kids. Happily obsessed with all things autism. She/they. Views my own.
Nov 14, 2018 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
I think any way you try to split autism into subtypes it only creates more barriers for autistic people to overcome. If services are aimed at type A they have to prove they are A enough and not too B to access them. It becomes easier to exclude them.
I often quote this tweet which I feel captures how this applies in functioning labels language
So I've been thinking about this for a while now and I'd like to share my thoughts on the language we use, and how we think about, "challenging behaviour" (CB). I'd like to replace the term with Distressed Behaviour (DB)
For me the change from CB to 'behaviour that challenges', while welcome, doesn't go far enough. It also requires some clunky linguistic gymnastics to say. I think we can do better.
