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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so I have a pretty #UnpopularOpinion about #eugenics... I don’t want to have a kid because of my genetic conditions. I would be happy to adopt or foster or some variant of that, but I do not want to have a natural child who I know would very likely get my conditions.
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Holy shit, I'm amazed you had to pepper that with so many qualifiers. How is that even a controversial opinion? Wtf kind of crowd is following you? I think that you had to frame it that way makes me angry on your behalf.
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I phrased it the way I did not because of my following - not because of the internet - not because of some special way I had to frame it - but because I was being cognizant of others opinions on the subject and know that my opinion is only mine. This is anthropology at is core
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No I mean, I think I actually mean something different. Like my audience actually does not interpret things in the damaging way you're trying to protect against. I think you and I are coming from two extremely different schools of thought here.
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Honestly It would be really interesting to speak with you like not on the internet - I think what I’m trying to explain is never going to fully come across in 250 characters 🤷♀️
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If you're in the bay area and once the plague dies out I'd be down to talk! Thank you for consistently being reasonable in what you're saying, even though I probably disagree about a lot of it.
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I’m from the bay actually! That could be a very real possibility🤟 i did my bachelors in anthropology and spent a lot of time watching people have fruitless arguments on the internet that could really benefit from anth concepts - so when I see something that I can speak to I do💖
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Yeah, ping me after we can go outside again.
As a background for me, I have a higher-than-default skepticism of all academia and don't really assign a lot of merit to formal education.
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Will do! Don’t be fooled by my willingness to take academia’s money- I don’t think a degree really means much at all, it’s all about how you use it (and I like to think I’m trying to destroy the academic bullshit from the inside!)many types of knowledge gathering are essential 🤟
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as long as skepticsm doesn’t mean flat out rejection of all things academic just for being academic - we shall have a really interesting conversation haha 🙏