Autism and gender dysphoria are continuous disabilities in that they can be managed rather than cured and are of unknown origin and have serious or mild symptoms for unknown reasons and so are addressed with scorn or horror when other disabilities are treated with only sympathy.

Deviance is the process of identifying and castigating people and groups of people thought of as not included in ordinary people. The study of deviance also looks at the ways of life of people considered deviant. Deviance included a number of categories that have over time become absorbed inro life as members of a social class or ethnic group so that prostitutes are relabeled as sex workers and so within the strata of class structure and African Americans are untouchables, part of a caste, but among the ethnic groups, as are gays and lesbians, who also see themselves as an ethnic group with its own flag, particular customs and its own sense of pride. But there are also new groups emerging to be treated as deviants and so met with ostracism and scorn as a result of being somehow unnatural which was the case with earlier deviant groups. Two of these have become prominent in popular discourse. The are the autistic and the gender dysphoric, both of them becoming politically controversial in that the Trump Administration thinks there is an epidemic of autism and Conservative lawmakers think that gender dysphorics are an abomination that is not a medical condition and such people therefore to be retrained to normality or considered not quite human at all..