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Cassandra Syndrome & Neurodiverse Relationships

My Friend Autism

CHAPTER

The Arguments for Disability

The social model says that all human beings are human beings. Everyone's different, but there are medically diagnosed thresholds of what can make people different to the extent that other people are not. So being diagnosed with a form of disability or condition is that is past a threshold of difference. The medical model says I am actually not as valuable, right? I am actually broken. But the social model says it's not actually that's not true. I'm as valuable as any other human beings. And the thing that's disabling me isn't in fact my disability, my condition. The thing that’s disabling me is the rest of humanity looking at it through a medical model and therefore disabling me

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