Why do people insist on calling us autistics "people with autism?"
No matter how much we insist that we want to be called "autistic people," or simply "autistics," they insist on saying the other thing because "autism doesn't define you" and "you're so much more than autism!"
Why do they not understand that we WANT autism to define us? Telling me that I am more than autism is not a compliment, it is an insult, because it implies it is this terrible disability that i should overcome. It is not. I am not mentally handicapped. It is not like down syndrome. I know I don't speak for all autistics, but I speak for most.