This reference is to the "power" we feel we have when we name things, versus the real power in the Universe, that actually creates things. And to the fact that a diagnosis is not action. Moreover, a diagnosis is an opinion.

From the homepage of this website: "We view autism, not necessarily as a disability, or something that is negative for everyone on the autistic spectrum, but as part of who the individual is."

So "autism" and "Asperger's Syndrome" are symbols. They have no real power or reality. But you, and I, are real. Our bodies and minds exist independantly of any descriptions. If the descriptions disappeared, we would still exist.

Of the two statements "I am" and "I am autistic", which is more powerful?

Naming a thing gives it power, or takes power away from it.

This site declares that "We know that autism is not a disease."

But check out the definitions of "diagnosis". Every single one says basically the same thing - a diagnosis is an identification of the presence of disease.

Now some may argue that "pregnancy" is a diagnosis. I would reply that pregnancy is a condition, a description of a stage of human growth. Medical assistance is in order to make it more comfortable and enhance the probability of a successful outcome, but it is not a disease. And so pregnancy is not a diagnosis, but rather a description.

So accepting a diagnosis, or even a description, using it to describe yourself is like a fashion choice.

And someone once said: “Why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”