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ASD: Autism spectrum disorder

Though I agree, in certain aspects is a super-power. In certain aspects it's a hampering disability. Semantics.

Disorder is a medical term that means an illness that disrupts normal physical or mental functions. This describes autism but not homosexuality (which, I was not aware, has now been declared to be of entirely genetic basis?)

Even if they were to both fit the definition, I’m not sure what the objection to the word is.

To slap down my lived experience: gay and on the spectrum.

And the spectrum part is definitely a disorder. It’s a deep-down and profound inability to connect. We are a fundamentally social species, to a fundamental inability to get socialization at a visceral level is pretty disordered.