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The Social Model of Disability
I was diagnosed at a young age. I certainly believe that I was posing a problem in the classroom, right? For my, I was a smart kid. They bumped me up a year because they thought I was impulsive and I was like causing disruption in the classroom. And now again, I'm an adult. I'm coping fine. And I don't think there was anything wrong with me then either. So maybe being extremely male, analytic and focused and maybe not as caring about relationships or as attuned to them, isn't an illness, it's just a set of traits. Maybe under certain circumstances, and there's a lot of great work in the disability community now about getting