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1. I am not claiming that low support-need autists cannot advocate for hight support need autists. I am saying that I have encountered little evidence to support the idea that low support-needs autists have more insight into the needs and interests of someone who is nonverbal, intellectually disabled, and has severe self-injurious behaviors than others, including those who know and support those individuals daily. 2. Sometime being non-verbal is about trouble with expressive communication. But for others, it is an all encompassing impairment and communication, if much at all, has huge subjective/interpretative component by the observer. fMRI in these indivuals show near absence of activation differences for contrasts between passively listened to language and random noise. They absolutely cannot advocate for themselves, and to not understand this, which occurs in 10-20% of autism, suggests a blindness to the full spectrum, because those people are not seen, they are not on Twitter, they are at home with their loving and hardworking caregivers who should have a seat at the table.




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