+ honestly I get that you’re interested in people’s opinions- but is it really worth essentially tormenting the autistic people who feel pretty personally attacked by this? Just throwing that out there. I get the pursuit of truth and knowledge - but is it really worth the grief?
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The only people who are truly benefiting from this discussion are cis white people, and you, and it doesn’t seem like you’re having all that fun of a time with it anymore anyway. What’s the point?
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I'm not talking about autism in this poll. One extreme illness I had in mind that I was asking about was one that runs in my family, has killed some of my uncles, that might randomly kill my mom any day, and that I thankfully just tested negative for.
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I didn’t say you were talking about autism - I said you were talking about eugenics which is a subject that hits different for a lot of autistic people. As another person pointed out - whatever particular condition you’re talking about doesn’t really matter
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But what about my experience? I absolutely want a world where we can eliminate the genetic diseases that have hurt my family so much. Am I just supposed to shut up about this because other people might somehow interpret this negatively? No, that thought makes me angry
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There’s a difference between sharing what you think and sharing your experience and opinions- and asking strangers to weigh in on whether or not disabled/ill/genetically different people should have kids. Or exist at all. That kinda stings for a lot of us
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It's really hard to interpret this as a request for me to restrict my speech and questions not because of it directly, but because of associations people make to bad things.
This is categorically not a persuasive reason, and agreeing to restrict seems like a dangerous precedent.
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I’m not asking you to restrict your speech - I’m asking you to be cognizant of it and how it can effect others - I get the historical point but I’m not saying “don’t say this we don’t like it” I’m saying - this is problematic can you adjust how you’re talking about this.
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Maybe part of the problem here is it looks like we're used to talking to extremely different audiences. My audience typically interprets what I say exactly as I mean it, without association problems. It sounds like yours has association problems
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And if you only care about the particular audience that you have cultivated here - go private. Do you even see any interactions on my tweets? My page is a giant only fans ad and a place for me to word vomit my thoughts -it was phrased that way because that’s genuinely how I think
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Part of what I'm doing is trying to bring my way (and that of my community) thinking to the world - and that is consistent, strong decoupling. I don't want to go private and hide this from newcomers.
Would recommend reading AI to Zombies to get a good summary
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Again - please look into anthropology research methods. Esp for surveys and polls - if that’s genuinely your goal here you could have so many more tools to actually just do that and avoid the endless arguments with ppl like me 🤷♀️