Silberman's a worthless, pompous carpetbagger, but the other half of this interview is worth reading. Just skip everything he says. http://www.thinkingautismguide.com/2018/04/on-hans-asperger-nazis-and-autism.html …
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Replying to @St_Rev
Not sure I like the framing of "pride in my autism is pride in resistance to societal norms." Good things to be appropriated from ableism rhetoric but I don't like being slotted into a narrative of 'resistance' and oppression. Interesting history. What's the beef with Silberman?
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Bog-standard post-2010 socjus missionary "journalist" applying the usual religious rhetoric to autistic people, where it's a particularly problematic fit. He's not helping. Also I just find him repellent.
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Replying to @St_Rev @IntentPerson
In that interview, he seems particularly focused on how we should be just totally squicked out all of a sudden by words like "aspie', because of the 'new' connotations. But autists generally don't give a shit about stuff like that. For all his blather he doesn't get us at all.
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Replying to @St_Rev @IntentPerson
There's a particular kind of obnoxious trope in autism "activism" where a bunch of beaming normies in brightly colored t-shirts surround one autistic kid who clearly doesn't want to be there. Normies making themselves feel good and using the autist as decoration.
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Replying to @St_Rev @IntentPerson
He uses autists as a decoration for his politics, and his politics are harmful to me.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Treated as a totem to be waved at enemies, useful only inasmuch as you suffer... which will incidentally happen much more often in a world where highly sophisticated social skills are seen as necessary to be a good person.
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I spend spare time writing up note-cards with views and palatable talking points so I don't get caught out, but even debate club autists get caught out by social reality sometimes. Sperged out at a party when someone talked about how it was good all the Boers were getting killed.
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Replying to @IntentPerson @St_Rev
People will look at you funny and avoid talking to you if you insist with emotion that a group of people getting killed out of hand is not in fact a funny, good thing.
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