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10 Dec 2017, 10:57 am

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I think it shows a great lack of imagination. I also think those people have been watching too many Autism Speaks commercials.


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10 Dec 2017, 11:09 am

EzraS wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
I think it shows a great lack of imagination. I also think those people have been watching too many Autism Speaks commercials.


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10 Dec 2017, 12:35 pm

If I wasn't trying to be PG rated here I'd simply say "f--k off". OK maybe not those words in real life, but still (never been called that personally, TBH).

The fact that it's done at all just proves a point that people are capable of turning anything, even the most useful thing, into something nasty. Take a piece of steel for example. You can build a bridge out of it -- or forge it into a sword and kill someone. Words and technology are neither good nor evil inherently. It's your choice to turn the next thing you pick up or hear into something constructive or destructive.


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10 Dec 2017, 5:41 pm

Glflegolas wrote:
If I wasn't trying to be PG rated here I'd simply say "f--k off". OK maybe not those words in real life, but still (never been called that personally, TBH).

The fact that it's done at all just proves a point that people are capable of turning anything, even the most useful thing, into something nasty. Take a piece of steel for example. You can build a bridge out of it -- or forge it into a sword and kill someone. Words and technology are neither good nor evil inherently. It's your choice to turn the next thing you pick up or hear into something constructive or destructive.



Wow! Good analogy! I never thought of it like that.


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10 Dec 2017, 6:33 pm

cfleischmann wrote:
Hi:

Those who use the term as an insult are taking an accepted medical term and using it as an insult (this has happened with terms in the past like ret*d) which was a legitimate medical term but is now seen as insulting when all ret*d means is “slowed down” (example the fire “retardant” meaning something (usually a chemical agent) that slows down the progression of a fire)

Just my thoughts. Glad you posted this.


I agree with all of this. And I wouldn´t be surprised if by the second half of this century the word "autistic" was deemed outdated as a medical term and replaced by an euphemistic name, turned officially into an insult like "idiot" and "ret*d". But this wouldn´t solve the problem, because the issue is not about the words, but about the people who misuse these words as if they were insults.


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10 Dec 2017, 6:41 pm

I'm trying to not let a word get to me.



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12 Dec 2017, 12:17 am

ZachGoodwin wrote:
I'm trying to not let a word get to me.



Good point. Water off a ducks back.


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26 Dec 2017, 5:28 am

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I was never called "autistic." I was called "ret*d" all the time.
Same here. Where I'm from no one including the so-called experts really know what autism is.


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26 Dec 2017, 5:40 am

It was used an insult towards to me in high school, part of the reason I felt so embarrassed when I actually ended up getting diagnosed



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26 Dec 2017, 6:13 am

nick007 wrote:
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I was never called "autistic." I was called "ret*d" all the time.
Same here. Where I'm from no one including the so-called experts really know what autism is.


I've had the "ret*d" name used against me more than once by several different people growing up. I've also had the name "Rain Man" used against me too, amongst other names. Those two monikers always reminded me, in a very negative way of course, that I was somehow different from the rest of the kids. It caused a great deal of anxiety for me. And it still does.


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26 Dec 2017, 4:21 pm

I think it's hilarious.



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29 Dec 2017, 1:02 am

There are many things that get under my skin, using autism as an insult isn't one of them.


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29 Dec 2017, 10:30 am

Odd, autism is from autismus, coined by Blueler. It's odd a word meaning "auto-ism" is an insult. It's so technical and medical, the only reason anyone can use it, is that they have never bother to look closer at what the word means.

In Asia, Autism is not an insult word, their word jiheisho (self-closeup-disorder) in Japanese is what it literally means, and would feel awkward. Like "You are so Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in that ball game yesterday!"



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29 Dec 2017, 2:32 pm

It shows vast ignorance, and I'd try to respond by educating them in a manner that they'd find inconvenient and embarrassing.


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29 Dec 2017, 2:46 pm

A couple of years ago I was reading Newsweek, an article about something or other (some work of art, or movie, I forget). But the author said that the creator of the work did such and such to "make it look a little less aspergian".

By "aspergian" he meant "stiff, wooden, rigid, dorky". I actually chuckled because I got the meaning. But then wondered if...I should be an SJW, and be offended, or....how should I as an aspie react? Never really decided. But that was the first, last, and only time I ever thought about my diagnosis being used in a derogatory way (though that was only in a joking derogatory-lite kinda way).