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Well, better in what sense?Some of the other respondents to this question were quite light-hearted and casual.Let’s look at both the sides independently and check out their advantages.Note. If we change some inputs to this discussion such as the size of the book, the type of the book, the binding, usage, popularity, price, author,etc the preferred option will sway. So, let’s standardize and keep this fact in mind.Printed booksMore accessible. This is what I feel personally.More accessible in terms of the first reading. They have felt easy to the eye over the years and better connections were made when I read them first. Touching the pages and holding the book makes reading a good experience.Easy edits. I can draw, highlight, mark, add, cut, note, remind, tear,etc easily without having to toggle. It feels very easy to do it on a printed book. No clicking and selecting required. Printed books contain personally hand-marked symbols which lead to better cognition, not the same as in case of E-books though.Printed books hold memories. I still have the first (Oxford pocket edition) dictionary which I bought in 5th grade. I used to carry that to the school everyday. Today, that dictionary is almost 10 years old. I had written some words on the back of the dictionary. I still remember that English lecture to this date. I have passed on that dictionary to my brother, the same way my dad had passed on his.Better mornings. When I sleep on a printed book, it leaves me in good shape the next morning. As mentioned earlier, printed books are better for the eye than e-books. Reading on a Kindle/Ipad after sitting hours in front of the computer does not sound the best idea to me. I cannot read the e-books simultaneously and for a long time. Comparatively, printed books promise a better night’s sleep. Reading the E-books for long is pretty tiresome and harmful.Theft. I will lose only the book which has been stolen and not the entire set of e-books if my reader is stolen which boasts of a greater probability.Special Case. Imagine a printed book lying besides you and someone visits and glances on the cover of the book. That becomes a talking point instantly. I have came to know about the veracity and vivid description of various places and events from people which were mentioned in the book without even asking them. The people themselves start speaking when they see a book relating to some place,personality,etc that they have had some experience with.No Battery issues here. If you are charged up to read, that’s enough.E-BooksSome obvious ones. Holds thousands of books, less spending on buying the books, better portability, etc.Sharing. It is possible to share specific quotes, lines, chapters, extracts, diagrams on the go. It is easier to dissect content and share among each other for furthering discussions. As some sharing infrastructure is already available, it is also easier to discuss the shared content off the e-books. A large number of people have access to shared content. e-books are ubiquitous and can be built upon easily.Durability. The e-books will stay as they are without any risk of getting damaged, torn, mutilated or eaten by rats, or any of that sort. However, the only issue is the existing e-book formats might get outdated or replaced if any better reading technologies are available in the future.Easy Purchase. You’re only a few clicks away from getting a e-book in your hands in the next few minutes. Affordable e-book readers and e-books.Flexibility. You can resize stuff and change the reading style that suits you. The Acrobat Reader has been modified and good additions have been made by Adobe. A lot of options to deal with the e-books. So, it makes it possible for different types of people to read e-books pleasurably. Also, the reader apps allow to jump between chapters without turning the pages. A ‘tap on the word dictionary support’ is also a good feature.The recent surge towards e-books is quite observable and I personally think that e-books are advantageous in some cases.Online reading and other reader apps provides us with links and search engines which makes it possible to study related concepts quickly and briefly. In case of printed books, we need to refer other books or media.A better way to deal with your reading habits is to mix and match.That provides a better way to read effectively.If you have 5 books to read, then buy printed editions of some books whereas read via the soft copy for others.If the book has too many diagrams, charts, tables, I will certainly go for a printed edition.If the book is a novel, then either way it’s fine. Actually, e-books will do here.The books which require some brainstorming, I will certainly go for printed editions.The main book should be printed and rest ancillary material can be electronic stuff.Until, a better reading technology is available which makes reading more accessible than what it is currently, printed books (even though their sales have plummeted in the recent years) will still be the favorites.

People "living with person first languageness". (Sorry for the snark). Most autistics prefer to be called autistic. Now you know. If a person defends PFL with the rationalization that they need a constant neverending reminder, that we autistics are, in fact, human/people, then what does that have to say about them? That they don't see us as people. That we are less than human to them. That's how you know that the dehumanization is working. That's how you know that dehumanizing us is so normalized.How everything has to be an overstimulation mess and try to capitalize on being an overstimulation mess on top of being an overstimulation mess, for forever recursive inception fractal capitalism overstimulation mess, as if it's some kind of selling point. I still haven't figured out why bounce houses for my niece and nephew's birthday party has to blast music at 90+ decibels and why Buffalo Wild Wings brags about its 42 teevees blaring varying forms of sportball. I mean, I get being under stimulated because I also have ADHD, but clearly this is excessive and it needs to stop. My department store experiences are already dismal so they added vertical tvs every few aisles in Walmart to scream at ya and rolling name brand razor demonstrations in a case— electronics making chewing sounds demoing a product on ear level in Target, as if it wasn't annoying enough already.People who regard autism as a disembodied pile of behaviors, or symptoms devoid of true reasoning or motivations. It's also a sure sign the dehumanization tactics are working. I know they have ABA and fear to sell ya in the name of Autism BewarenessTM—make it a hard pass. Don't fall for it.People who say that our sensory issues are "preferences" or misbehavior. God I wish it was that— that would be so much easier to not like lose focus over a rogue shirt tag or not gag on our food or to not overload at stores. And people who call our meltdowns tantrums— they aren't— both are very different in nature. Basically we get gaslighted since day one because people can't conceive of the possibility of the idea that our brains process everything unfiltered with the volume turned way up. They will instead argue that "the tv isn't really that loud, honey" as if that makes it better. It's like that for the entirety of our lives, too.People who co-opt our identities as a badge of pity. I'm not here for Allistic (non-autistic) moms making it about their commiserating pity parties and merchandising with puzzle pieces. Yes, we hate puzzle pieces too. Even NAS has moved away from this symbol they started with in the 1960's that definitely wasn't chosen by us. The symbol itself (and its usual primary color presentation) is infantilizing. I'm done with people who think the whole narrative of autism should focus on everyone BUT autistic people. No, please stop talking over us and dedicating the floor to everyone but autistic people. If "living with a person affected with autism" is so bad, imagine what it's like living in a world not made for you as an autistic person who has to suffer people who make your brain all about them while telling you that you're at the mercy of their nonacceptance. For all that it matters that people harp on autistic people for lacking theory of mind— there are a lot of neurotypicals and allistic folk in general who won't even bother to even walk a mile in our shoes. Ask them to meet you halfway on anything and they look at you like you're the worst ever.That every ounce of actual functioning is largely based in executive functioning— and yet people for some reason people mistake "functioning" for short term trained indistinguishability* when it's anything but (and that instinguishability is contextual and largely comes at the expense of actual functioning). *Bonus points when people utilize that trained indistinguishability to gaslight you by saying your problems aren't real.People forcing us to adhere to a dichotomy. Allistic folk seem to think that we exist at one extreme or another— either we're so "high functioning" (aka wow, you can pass for 20 minutes in public, or you can keyboard fluently on the internet) that you aren't like their child, or you're considered "low functioning" and dismissed completely by lack of presumed competence aka you're "too autistic to know what being autistic means" or some kind of "too aloof to know what a burden you are", basically. Mostly it's some form of "you're not like my child— they'll find any reason to believe this drivel to dismiss your truth by. Functioning labels are trash and used to deny supports all around— they're not specific enough to call our particular supports and are regularly used to deny support either by painting you as erroneously not needing support or being a lost cause. And it isn't just functioning labels— a lot of people try to force and bend us to fit absolutes and then wonder why we break. If you value thinking outside the box, stop trying to put us in one, thanks.The idea that everything operates under one context, is linear, and static and unchanging. I'm so done with this NT idea. I never married it and I still want to divorce it because like a zombie this idea never dies despite how much I want to quash it and it is everywhere.Not everything operates in the same context. Which is why I am more functional in some environments than others. Sometimes I am not given context with the NT idea that everything operates at the same context and they're wrong. There are differences.And nothing is linear. Progress, development, and functioning aren't linear. We go back and forth like other kids do— we learn some things, take a step back, take a leap forward and maybe even sideways. Some skills might develop much faster than other skills. This isn't always like Xbox achievements or an RPG video game where you have achievements or skill levels in a chart that build on top of each other. Or have to achieve them by a definitive timeframe in order for those skills to "count." Or that some skills have to be unlocked before given access to more skills to unlock.And that nothing is static. Sometimes, the Allistic parents hear The Case of The NevarsTM (your kid will never XYZ as if the "professional" has a crystal ball, and usually this happens early on) and they freeze and forget that people will have more skills at age 30 than age 5. They can't conceptualize their kid ever becoming an adult because they are either scared of what that looks like or infantilize their kid forever and view autism as a "childhood" condition, forgetting that we become adults and so will their kids, providing they get the chance. Many times, this fear of autistic people entering adulthood enforces that infantilization used against us while at the same time lending to erasure of autistic adults. Or it leads to people acting condescending towards us, forgetting that their kid will grow up to become one of us in the autistic community.People who undervalue technology. It is basically my access to a social life— my access to finding and bonding with other people who understand me. There are groups of thousands of autistic people on the internet. And we communicate in text, which works better for us. And there are apps that nonspeaking and semi-verbal autistics use to communicate. And typing works better for dysgraphic folk like me. This isn't the 1990's, where you only know 3 other autistic people and have no access to other people like yourself. Sometimes I feel like a lot of allistic parents forget that they need to not make their world so small and they need to get out of that isolation and seek out communities and technology to help their kid.I'm pretty sure there are a least 20 more points I am forgetting but that's a start.

Unfortunately, it does happen. It happened to me personally.I am a patient in a major national HMO that provides its own facilities and physicians; I arrived 10 minutes before my scheduled appointment time with a specialist. The doctor was running extremely late, though no one initially told me this. 45 minutes after my scheduled appointment, I was called in by his LVN and was told it would be at least another 30–45 minutes. She was going to have me sitting in the exam room this entire time. I explained I could not wait another 45 minutes and then another 20–25 for the actual appointment with the doctor, or another 70+ minutes. She went to the doctor, and he noted in my chart for the appointment, “Pt refused to be seen despite waiting <15 minutes.”Note: Like most healthcare facilities nowadays, they use electronic records, and the nurse’s note, as well as the time stamp for the doctor’s erroneous statement, was 50 minutes after the scheduled appointment time. My check in receipt (they use electronic check in machines) was 10 minutes before the appointment, so I was on time, and this couldn’t be used as a defense.About four days later, I end up in the ER over a problem related to why I was going to be seeing that specialist, and the ER triage doctor states to me, “Well if you didn’t feel your time was so special, you would have been seen and this ER trip prevented. Maybe you’ll learn to be patient in the future.” I explained that I waited over 45 minutes past my scheduled time and the nurse stated it would be at least another 45 before he was able to see me. He said I was exaggerating it because of the note the specialist put in the chart. That was when I ordered my medical records to see just what he saw.I filed a complaint against them both, and changed specialists so I don’t have to deal with him again.