What is ASB?

Autism Spectrum of Being — ASB — is not a diagnosis.

It’s a reframing. A reclamation. A way to describe the autistic experience not as something broken, but as something profoundly human.

For decades, autism has been defined through deficits — first as ASD, then softened to ASC to reduce stigma. These labels have their place in support and medicine. But they often miss something deeper:

Autism isn’t separate from us. It is us. It’s how we experience the world.

ASB doesn’t deny difficulty. It sees the whole.

For some, autism means 24-hour care, high support needs, or being non-speaking. For others, it’s hidden — a constant effort to cope, to mask, to pass.

ASB holds space for all of it.

It recognises the full spectrum of sensory, emotional, and relational experience. It makes no assumptions about speech, independence, or ability. It simply says:

You exist. You belong. As you are.

This isn’t a rejection of science, diagnosis, or support. It’s a widening of the frame — a language that honours difference, especially when that difference is invisible, unspoken, or misunderstood.

It’s not a toolkit. Not a label. Not a cure.

It’s a lens. A grounding. A way to say: this is me.

Because we were never meant to fit.

We were meant to be.