Dividing Up the Autism Spectrum Will Not End the Way You Think ↗

"If you believe that autistic people can’t be happy, or live good lives, or grow up and learn new skills—as the dominant message tells you—then when you, the parent of a child with high support needs, see an autistic person who can do things as an adult that an autistic child can’t, or who seems happy, or who has a good life, it can seem easy to think that they must not have “real” autism. After all, in this false message, “real” autism means suffering in our society. "