Category: profound autism

  • Don’t Divide the Autism Spectrum: Unite the Whole Community

    Don’t Divide the Autism Spectrum: Unite the Whole Community

    Despite clear alternatives, some prominent voices in the autism world, whom I wrote about in November, are continuing to push for a new category which they are calling “Profound Autism.” They are completely ignoring Autistic voices. The Autism Self Advocacy Network, ASAN, “has continually opposed attempts to split autism into multiple diagnoses. These attempts will not…