Lunatic is not really abusive in the U.S. either. It's not a medical term. It's not unlike saying you're bonkers. Kind of silly when people connect it to ableism like "you're bipolar."
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i will say as a guy who's a bit on the spectrum (so i'm told anyway) that it doesn't feel particularly good to have people laugh at me and say i'm nuts or call me a freak or a lunatic. it may not be the worst indignity i've suffered, but at the least it's rude & disrespectul.
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I’m sorry people do that. People shouldn’t say hurtful things because of part of what makes you you. That’s definitely wrong. But saying “you’re a lunatic” to someone who says the moon is made of green cheese should be fine. And I think it devalues true ableism to say otherwise.
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Adding 'you lunatic' to the end of a sentence is an expression meaning 'Don't be silly' here.
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In the US it’s “you got to be shitting me” or “wtf are you saying.”
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Aren't you domiciled outside the uk?
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Have you heard German spoken with a Scottish accent ?




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Word policing comes up a lot in my field. Some is healthy, some is not. Personally, I think it comes down to intent and whether or not you're specifically making negative comments about one's disability. In any case, it provides a means for others to derail the conversation.
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For example, seeing people just throw around the word Autistic or Aspie to label a way of thinking they disagree with gets very tiresome after awhile. Eventually we just become sensitive to the commonality.
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I thought it fit the person you argued with yesterday. Their argument made zero sense and was abusive towards you.
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I once dated a Brit who would address my insecurities by calling me "You delicious Loony!" This typically calmed me right down.
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Unless they're actual werewolves, they can just sit there in their sodium.
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probably because they're a lunatic?
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Yeah: remember to only criticise people by saying nice things about them in future ('cos that totally works).
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And aparrently dont use spaz in the uk its very offencive there.
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That's lunacy.
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We must respect our lunar friends. Anything else could be considered blatant racist anti-lunism.
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There are no victims, only volunteers.
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