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It's ableist because it was used to reinforce the idea of autism that's good and autism that's bad. It was a quiet endorsement of the eugenics that Dr. Asperger and the Nazis supported. Using a different category of disability specifically to call them lesser is ableist. It's not just the name, but the separate categorization that pits autistic people against each other at diagnosis.