Autism is a disability by the way

As someone on the autistic spectrum I've been getting more and more frustrated by allistic people talking over us autistic people and insisting that "autism isn't a disability it's a different ability!!"

Even as someone who'd be considered "high functioning" or "level 1" autism disables me every day. It actively makes just the act of taking care of myself and engaging with activities I enjoy difficult.

My sensory issues make doing basic chores hard, my social ineptitude adds to my already existing social anxiety, etc.

I think people who claim that "autism isn't a disability" don't understand 2 things:

1. you can be disabled and not want your disability cured, like a lot of autistic people

2. being disabled isn't some sort of personal failure or inherently negative trait, it's a neutral state of being, some people are disabled, that's it.

A lot of the aspects of my disability could be easier for me to handle if others would take it seriously, it wouldn't cure it obviously, disability aids don't cure the disability that's like saying that someone with a wheelchair is cured, but god it could be a lot easier to manage.

I notice this thought process a lot in parents of autistic children, I want to shake them so badly, you need to accept that your child is disabled and care for them accordingly, if you didn't want a disabled kid you shouldn't have had children. Also I suggest you or your partner get tested, autism is hereditary. 

Also for the record, I do see some autistic people as well claim that they don't view themselves as disabled, and I'm happy that your symptoms are subtle enough that you don't feel disabled! But odds are you still are, just in more subtle ways. That's like saying someone with high functioning depression doesn't count as being mentally ill.