#ableism implied

I see your "autistic people are capable of performing labor and performing it well if given the correct accommodations" and I raise you with "autistic people's worth or quality of life shouldn't be judged based on whether or not we're able to perform labor"

I fully understand how labels can be oppressive, insulting, and downright wrong. But the thing is, labels are only bad if they were given to us by someone else without our consent. If we internalize the nonsense that assholes say. Self-labeling though, that's important. Figuring out that there are words to describe myself saved me from thinking that I was a failure, that I was alone. I'm not "childish" or "prudish," I'm asexual. I'm not "quirky," I'm autistic. The words people labeled me with never fit right. They were always missing something, always too small for what I was feeling. My labels though, my labels fit.