New Word For Anti-Autists

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As you can see from this thread, envirozentinel thought up of this one.

So I'm thinking about the consequences of this. Maybe it could stop employers from disrespecting the autistic community for example by asking specifically for programmers only. It feels like they're saying to us, "We want the brainy ones only and don't care much for the rest of you". It's stereotyping too.

Maybe it could shut down discriminatory websites like heartlessaspergers.com

Maybe it could even allow autistics to come out with their autism in the workplace without fear of getting discriminated against.

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The title is a bit misleading. It's a new word to describe anti-autists. The title does sound a bit as if the word is anti-autism.

Thanks though.

Seriously though people, I think this is a massive deal. This would help us speak out against Autism Speaks.

I get what you're saying.

Folks who hate autistics would be …

I suppose that it is a subset of "ableism"- a term that already exists.

But if want to make it specific- "neurodiversaphobia"?

I prefer to use the word c***s

It could cover neurodiversity, since it covers quite a lot of people than a subset, and would therefore be more likely to be included in the majority of people as a proper term.

Autism though specifically has people dismissing it as not real, something to be judged or in the case of Autism Speaks, something to be erased.

Here's my suggestion: "neurological Procrusteans." A bit long, but gets the point across about what's wrong with it and why, and also encompasses ill-treatment of other kinds of neurodivergent people besides just autistic people.

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I think a great word would be autisticphobic. Another good word would be autismphobic. Autiphobic also sounds good.

No magic word is going to accomplish this without a much bigger and better organized civil rights movement than we have now, which isn't going to happen until we have a much bigger and better organized community than we have now.

While I like the reference, I don't think most people know what Procrustean means.

And...you've got to have that sound bite or "magic word" at least in the US.

I'm sorry to criticize, but the majority of people would not understand such a term and be very resistant to trying to understand a new "big word". It needs to be simplistic and easily understandable. It's got to sound catchy too.

Procustean sounds like it means someone who loves lobsters and crabs!

Lol, it reminded me of that too!

In my opinion, a new "big word" might make people think, wheres "auti-phobic" (or a similar term) would more likely be resisted as just another variant of "political correctness."

The word "Procrustean" means ruthlessly conformist. It refers to the Greek myth of Procrustes, who invited travelers to spend the night at his house, and then either cut off their feet (if they were too tall) or violently stretched them (if they were too short) so they would exactly fit the size of his guest bed.

In my opinion, ABA (or at least the classic kind of ABA that focuses on making autistic kids "indistinguishable from their peers") is a Procrustean methodology.

Personally, I think "autismophobic" fits better with the other "phobics", though it would probably be pronounced au-tis-mo-pho-bic

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