• Moneo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Also who the fuck is calling autistic people too sensitive? This image is like victim fetishizing.

    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      First time ive heard it. I genuinely dont mind it. Its a bit odd but its fun.

      Is it pronounced or-listic or al-istic?

    • clara@feddit.uk
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      you’re entirely right. allistic is silly. i think it’s slightly worse than silly though. i have two takes on this.

      my first take is that you shouldn’t slur people.

      my second is that if you’re gonna slur someone anyway, don’t be a chicken; just slur them. hiding behind “allistic” is a little bit like hiding behind “youths”, or “fruity”, or “welfare scroungers”, or “special”, or when people do that thing where they go “…she… oh sorry i mean he” (and vice-versa). it’s either a dogwhistle, or dogwhislte-adjacent. we all know what the speaker is implying when they uses these terms. you’re just slurring someone without the confidence necessary to do so.

      this is why i unironically use normie (on the internet). sometimes i want to be rude about it, y’know? am in the wrong to slur like this? yes, absolutely. whilst i might use normie in the context of venting, it still doesn’t make it right. but at least i’m not being a coward about my position by hiding behind “allistic”

      sometimes, especially when i’m chatting amongst autistics, it’s easier to casually write “when normies do x it upsets me, how about you?” instead of writing formal prose like “Oh I must say! These dastardly Neurotypicals have a particular behaviour pattern that troubles my mind… Do tell me how you bear the burden of such travesties.”.

      doing the formal thing is tiring, and sometimes i don’t want to be the better person. 😎👍

    • Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Also how are any of these things autistic traits? I’m sitting here chewing my tongue raw for the last 5 years and haven’t gone outside since, have no interest in socialization and have misphonia yet watch asmr. I’m not autistic.

      • Fog0555@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        How do you know you’re not autistic vs undiagnosed vs misdiagnosed vs the definition of autistic is too vague?