In recent years, the public image of autism has changed dramatically. Media coverage, social media advocacy, and popular culture increasingly portray autistic people as articulate, independent, academically successful, or socially unconventional in appealing ways. Autism is often framed primarily as a natural human variation – a different way to think and experience the world. For some autistic people, this representation is undoubtedly valid. But it is far from the whole pic

It is not straightforward Despite differences in approaches to define ‘intelligence ’, most experts agree that intelligence is the capacity to learn, think logically about abstract concepts and the ability to adapt to the cultural environment . Functional and intellectual disability Donna Williams (1996) distinguishes between functional and intellectual disability. The first one is to do with how a person functions in the world based on the capacity to act on the informat