Hedra42 said:
What if that kid wasn't autistic? How would he feel about the various posts that have suggested that he is? My eldest messed up in a science experiment recently, causing one of his classmates to call him 'special needs'. Have you any idea how much that can hurt? As for the speech impediments, you'd need to define the "normal child experience" for me to even comprehend what you're talking about. Get a large number of people in any room, and you'll have a proportion of them who have a disability or disorder of some kind. But my point is that the video was not targetting disabled children, but making a compilation of awkward, cringeworthy and funny moments created by children. Unfortunately, in this day and age, it's going to be ridiculed. |
I think from his question he obviously doesn't view autistic as an insult and in fact thinks it has positive advantages. So he probably wouldn't feel all that bad to be honest. Nobody was diagnosing him anyways. There is just the assumption that he has some type of history with autism to pose the question in the first place. Either with himself, or a family member or friend.
The "normal child experience" is whatever you think it is. I don't label people into categories of normal and abnormal unless we are talking about Gaussian distributions and a specific trait. Having said that, I think the speech impediments are not generally considered as normal by others.
Okay, well your point is misplaced. I was specifically talking about the instance when a disorder was brought up, not the various instances where it was not.