What’s your take? I’m not sure if I know of an historic case of it like IDK maybe 200 or 150 years ago but nowadays I have several cases near of autistic people, so what do you think is old or new?

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Being included in the DSM doesn’t automatically classify something as a mental illness

      No, but those descriptions of a mental illness I thought fit autism fairly well. 🤷‍♂️ That’s what I meant.

      • kewjo@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        would you consider left-handedness a disability? just because someone struggles with things that suit the majority doesn’t mean it’s an illness

        • Victor@lemmy.world
          11·
          3 months ago

          Left-handedness doesn’t need to be a struggle, does it? We don’t force kids to write with their right hand anymore since many decades.