Odd Girl Out: My Extraordinary Autistic Life

This way of understanding and supporting autistic people is sorely lacking. It treats the person as a problem to be solved and to be fixed rather than an individual to be understood. It fails to show respect for the individual and ignores that person’s perspective and experience. It ignores the fact that their neurological differences mean autistic

“Adults” are supposed to be independent, though of course no person actually is. We all rely on the hard work and social-emotional support of dozens of people every single day. You’re only seen as less adult, and supposedly less of a person,[3] if you need help in ways that disrupt the illusions of self-sufficiency.