Holy shit. There's a whole Twitter inquisition going right now against autists who use the word '#aspie' to refer to themselves. Because rigorous monitoring of our language is absolutely the most important thing we need. Extraordinary.
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Sociopaths and borderlines get misdiagnosed as autistic sometimes, I guess. My model of autism has extreme difficulty with this kind of behavior. Maybe I don't have enough imagination.
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I think the key distinction is being able to read people's emotional states and not caring/enjoying their suffering vs. caring but being unable to read them.
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Getting an emotional charge out of bullying/dominating others seems like something autists will have difficulty with, because they'll have difficulty noticing when it happens (and they aren't, generally, sadistic).
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Jpeg of "autistic community card" being revoked is perhaps among the ten most ridiculously stereotypically autistic things I could have ever imagined
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It's autistic-literal performance of a mode of thinking that I associate with (hyper)neurotypicals.
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Sounds like a bumpy ride ahead... the aspies I know wouldn't say that. But maybe somebody sufficiently woke as a normie therapist could convince them that this is the way to think about it. Once accepted, they can be pretty zealous. D'fuq, tho? Why kick a hornet's nest?
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Yeah, and it's not like we're ever going to be anything but despised pawns at best in the activist scene.
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I assume these folks wouldn't want an accurate list of genius innovators who fall on the "ableist" end of the spectrum. Nor do they seem enthusiastic about finding suitable career paths for autistics throughout the spectrum.
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