Great point! And unfortunately, an example I've experienced. I honestly believe anything too far outside the "normal" part of the bell curve can become a disability.
Verbal skills too good? People don't understand you, make fun of you until you deliberately learn to use those same skills to code switch.
Creative? School will bore you to tears, many of your teachers will dislike you and lower your grades for failing to follow instructions exactly. People will think you're just trying to change the way they do things to be "difficult." Often, your ideas will simply go unappreciated because it often takes creativity to recognize creativity.
But good hearing is a better example because it's objective.
Perhaps this point should be its own post. Thank you 😁
Something that interests me, especially regarding autism, although I don't think this is necessarily exclusive to autism, is when a *positive* trait, or an ability that most people in a culture don't possess, becomes a disability.
Because not everything that makes autism disabling is an impairment or a lack of an ability that most people have. We often have outrageously sensitive hearing, for instance, and can hear at frequencies or volumes that most people can't, and that can be disabling when it means that you get hurt far more easily than most people, or are expected to function in auditory circumstances that don't bother most people, or can't even explain to others what's wrong because they literally cannot hear what you hear.
Great point! And unfortunately, an example I've experienced. I honestly believe anything too far outside the "normal" part of the bell curve can become a disability.
Verbal skills too good? People don't understand you, make fun of you until you deliberately learn to use those same skills to code switch.
Creative? School will bore you to tears, many of your teachers will dislike you and lower your grades for failing to follow instructions exactly. People will think you're just trying to change the way they do things to be "difficult." Often, your ideas will simply go unappreciated because it often takes creativity to recognize creativity.
But good hearing is a better example because it's objective.
Perhaps this point should be its own post. Thank you 😁
Something that interests me, especially regarding autism, although I don't think this is necessarily exclusive to autism, is when a *positive* trait, or an ability that most people in a culture don't possess, becomes a disability.
Because not everything that makes autism disabling is an impairment or a lack of an ability that most people have. We often have outrageously sensitive hearing, for instance, and can hear at frequencies or volumes that most people can't, and that can be disabling when it means that you get hurt far more easily than most people, or are expected to function in auditory circumstances that don't bother most people, or can't even explain to others what's wrong because they literally cannot hear what you hear.