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The attempt to transform autistic people into a marginalized identity group is incredibly off-putting. The point of the article is for the author to assert his
by slibhb 5y ago
The attempt to transform autistic people into a marginalized identity group is incredibly off-putting.
The point of the article is for the author to assert his authority based on nothing but his proclaimed identity. He gets to lecture us (or "journalists") about the "right way" to think and write about his identity group. What could be more "neurotypical" than this kind of power game? Also some new tortured neologisms are introduced ("neuroqueerness").
- mbilokonsky 5y agoAutistic people die before age 60, are subjected to electrical shocks in the US that are illegal to use on dogs, and have their entire subjective experience erased in the name of conversion therapies that cause CPTSD but are fully covered by insurance. If that doesn't describe a marginalized identity group I'm not sure that the phrase has any meaning?