“Non-neurotypical” is the new black turtleneck. Mark of misunderstood Jobsian genius.
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The handful of obviously outlier non-neurotypicals I know well personally, without exception, take great pains to avoid inadvertently hurting others. This makes me somehow skeptical of self-serving incivility. I have a nasty, suspicious mind that way.
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If you’ll excuse my subhuman hyperneurotypical cognitive Luddism, I’ll wait till you actually create the next iPhone or prove P!=NP before according you the superhuman behavioral allowances you obviously deserve. I’ll even apologize for mistaking you for an ordinary asshole then.
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My sympathies and benefit of doubt allocations here have swung around 180 degrees since this topic first popped in the zeitgeist. There’s just too clear a pattern in the kinds of people seeking accommodation, and the behaviors they want get-out-of-jail-free cards for.
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And of course we all know actual non-neurotypicals who badly need accommodation will be the ones to suffer because of assholes trying to pass. Celiac’s sufferers vs fashionably gluten-free all over again.
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There’s probably a name for how the actual intellectual explorers try to name something they do, and then it spreads outward and becomes diluted like this. See also: contrarian
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That's... Messed up :/
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