In the context of the prevailing social milieu, this person is going to be disabled, because their autistic style of embodiment and communication will result in social rejection, discrimination, misunderstanding, disrespect, exclusion, and abuse by the majority of non-autistic people they encounter. A multitude of doors will be closed to them; they’ll have undue difficulty getting or keeping jobs (or other useful things, like apartments); their performance at school and work will be seriously impacted by the hostility of peers and authority figures; they’ll have a hard time getting any
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