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I can tell you from personal experience as a person with a physical disability that it's still very much a stigma. It's also very much possible for something t
by apical_dendrite 10mo ago
I can tell you from personal experience as a person with a physical disability that it's still very much a stigma.
It's also very much possible for something to be both a stigma and an identity. In fact, the stigmatization can make the identity stronger.
- Detrytus 10mo agoWell, some kinds of disability still are a stigma, but here on HN neurodiversity/autism is celebrated as some kind of superpower, basically.
- apical_dendrite 10mo agoI'm aware. See for instance, VC Arielle Zuckerberg's comment that when deciding which founders to fund she looks for "a little of the rizz and a little of the tis" with "rizz" referring to charisma and "tis" to autism. One could argue that mythologizing a particular characteristic is itself a form of stigma.
- jay_kyburz 10mo agoI'm all tis and no rizz