Talk:Autism/RFC on Focus

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The neutral point of view policy requires that articles "represent fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic". Does the Autism article as a whole currently overemphasize the clinical/medical model of disability viewpoint relative to the social/neurodiversity viewpoint?

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Viewpoints on autism include a clinical/medical model of disability perspective, which sees autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder with symptoms, impairments and deficits and uses terms like "cure", "treatment", "severity", "high/low functioning", "burden", "risk", and "co-morbid"; and a social/neurodiversity perspective, which sees autism as a healthy part of human diversity rather than a disorder (though it can be disabling if the environment does not accommodate autistic people’s needs and may also involve inherently disabling features) and uses terms like "features", "characteristics", "accommodations", "likelihood", "co-occurring", and specific descriptions of support needs.

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