To this, after 25 years of self-studying psychology on and off, I would theorize that it shows the contradiction that autistic people often cant function in this environment and go the self stigmatizing and agonizing route of getting tons of diagnoses to somehow get taken off some of the burden which otherwise might lead to suicide.

Can personally relate.

Being gifted (as in having a special talent for e.g. spatial thinking, word association, memory, etc.) is real. People have different capabilities and denying such is ableist and reactionary imo. The difference imo is that bourgois society and psychology uses a binary approach which labels people as gifted or non gitfted, making them two “classes” which makes sense in an oppression perspective

Oh i do think being gifted is real, and I can see how it can be reactionary to flatten the exceptional skills talents and thinking one may have. I was definitely referring to the gifted to burnout paradox, of typing and classifying people to be exploited, and then discarding them.

One thing i feel may be helpful to say is that from my experience, autistic people will mask to pass in these conditions and often that means over self reliance, saying yes to everything, overworking, willingly being maipulated and coerced, and so on. So disabilities become disabilities in this case when the energy stress and strain to maintain that mask eventually fails. This whole process can have dramatic effects, including diminishing and reduction of gifted skills and talents. With the conditioning western societies impress upon autistic people, the idea of binary giftedness can very well manipulate gifted peoples into diminishing these traits.

Autistics are hyper-exploited in capitalist societies but I too hear very little about it’s impact in socialist and dem-soc countries, or in the global south in general. The tension of demanding our (autistics) hyper-exploitation and us being acutely aware of that could be a factor (such as through diagnoses ascribed as ‘pathological demand avoidance’ or other ‘developmental disorders’). Even apparent efforts to reframe autism in a positive light also positions us as exceptional, gifted, and thus groomable and exploitable. Whereas out of that context, epigentic behaviors as impacted by environment don’t seem to be so significant for accomodations (disability).

As a USian I feel like pulling all my “credentials” of my autistic diagnosis, so it may not be used againat me, if that’s even possible. It seems too late.

Look at how countries like USA treat their homeless— people displaced from housing and denied a gainful living. The worse scenario is already happening to them. Nevermind Gazans being killed to turn the whole strip into a resort for these presumed philanthropists