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If you are well organized, it is a healthy trait. no one would say you are "on the OCD spectrum".. but when that trait gets out of hand we would say you have OCD, and likely would be diagnosed as such.
I see (autism) ASD and ADHD as much the same way. Most people diagnosed with it who are high functioning dont really have it at all. It is just a personality trait and all in all a positive one. high-functioning ASD are just people without social hangups, good. And people with ADHD who are high-functioning are largely just amazing multi-taskers.
The harm in putting people on a spectrum is they see themselves asa diseased, broken, something that needs "consideration.. they arent, in most cases in the right proportions these "diseases" are in fact just super powers, things more people should wisht hey have really.
@freemo
That's not my point of view.
First, you don't even get a formal diagnosis if you are just high functioning and don't have any problems (at least in my country, Germany). On the Opposite, there are so many struggling day to day who are not formally diagnosed.
If you have ADHD/ASD, even when you don't struggle at the moment, there is a higher risk, so it is better to prevent possible negative outcomings. You don't lower that risk by calling those people "healthy" or "super powered".
@freemo @macberg
You said it because you want to take away the status of "disability" regularly.
The main goal of that status is to have the legal right to get accommodations.
Yeah, in another society maybe in the far future everyone will get the accommodations they need regardless their status. But not here, not today.
So if you want to change the way we think about ASD/ADHD please change society first. Too big for you? Then don't harm people when they try to live in that system at least.
You said it because you want to take away the status of “disability” regularly. The main goal of that status is to have the legal right to get accommodations.
No I didnt a d please dont tell me why i say things.
I said what i said so people will stop seei g disabilities in that way at all, or needing it as a means to qualify for accomodations. Accomodations should be given to everyone who needs them, you shoukd t need to prove a disability to get it.
@freemo @macberg
Considerably inhuman to not give a person the accommodations they need but wait until they suffer and than think everything could be repaired with talk therapy instead of changing the surroundings.
Did you ever hear of preventive healthcare?
Of course it's a disability even if you don't have acute problems. You permanently have to manage the accommodations in order to not get them again and that is also exhausting.