Is this social justice at work?

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You know, I've had a few transgender friends, and can sympathize, but I really doubt being coddled is the answer to anything or at all productive.

What's pronouns got to do with justice...? Does law specify them anywhere?

The problem here is that people have no sense of proportion anymore. Everything isn't black or white. There are shades of gray.

Also, just because something is done by many/most people doesn't make it right or okay.

Once upon a time women, children and people with certain skin colors were all COMMONLY considered property.

Was that okay because it was common?

Were abolitionists and suffragettes unreasonable to insist that society change to accommodate them and their uncommon views?

That's your youtube video isn't it.

Gee, and I thought that one of the hallmarks of autism is a tendency to view things in terms of black and white. Things are either right or they're wrong, they're good or they're bad. That's the only way that I can view things.

That being true about autistics, shouldn't one seek to be more flexible.....because flexibility provides a quicker path to what's really true.

Logic is all fine and dandy....but there are limits to it.

Being autistic doesn't mean one can't become better.

"Better"? Better than what? Better than being true to myself? I see things the way I see them, should I instead pretend to see them in some other way simply because that's what society apparently expects?

No, I don't advocate that. I mean better in something like accumulating knowledge

If one keeps to medieval logic systems, one learns at a stultifying rate.

I'm sorry I simply don't undertand what it is that you're suggesting. My brain is "wired" in a certain way and it predetermines how I think and view things, I know no other ways. I see in black and white. I can hear someone say "see in grey" but it has absolutely no meaning for me, it's not that I choose only to see in black and white, it's just how my mind operates

I'm sure you realize spectra are everywhere... even the autistic spectrum itself clearly isn't black and white.

Even amid a "set" thought pattern such as that found in autism, one can receive input which could change one's notion, even, of "right and wrong."

A dramatic life event could teach you lots of things.

Argue for your limitations, don't test them, and watch what happens.

I bet a psychologist could come up with some activities that might , at least, help illustrate the the concept of shades of gray....

It might be interesting to try that. Even if it doesn't change the way you think, it could give you insight into how others think. That's a skill that most autistics can develop with effort. I did.

What? I don't understand cryptic coments, if you want me to understand your point say it plainly in black and white.

? A dramatic life event such as what? Death of both parents perhaps? Death of brother and death of eldest sister? Repeated childhood rape? Two massive heart attacks? Been there, experienced them all, but didn't buy the T-shirts. Those events altered nothing. I think the way my mind is preprogrammed to think.

I decline.