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Yes, I do remember. That was a latent effect of the great depression mixed with grandma not having to work so that was her hobby. Pretty tired of having a hobby
by tempaccount5050 7mo ago
Yes, I do remember. That was a latent effect of the great depression mixed with grandma not having to work so that was her hobby. Pretty tired of having a hobby or specific domain knowledge being labeled as "lol autism".
- 1shooner 7mo agoAutism as a contemporary identity and autism as a DSM-V diagnosis seem to have diverged in the past few years.
- rdevilla 7mo agoIt's because people have discovered that (1) motte and bailey fallacies [0] and equivocation of language (between, e.g. identity and diagnosis) are highly effective rhetorical tools; (2) merely identifying as something ontologically changes the metaphysical structure of reality [1] which confers certain societal benefits. There is a matrix of is-diagnosed, is-not-diagnosed, identifies-as, does-not-identify-as, which is open to exploitation by those who "identify as" something they are not diagnosed with. Who gets fucked? The people who are diagnosed but do not identify as their diagnosis. God help me once we start adding another dimension of people who have a condition, but are also not diagnosed and do not identify with it either... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538165