• Nonameuser678@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Am autistic and can confirm that many aspects of their science are bullshit. Still deal with the impacts of this every day as many in my community are willfully ignorant about Hans Asperger and how concepts like ‘high’ and ‘low’ functioning are based in nazi ideology not science.

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      1 year ago

      It’s exactly why I don’t participate in most communities for autistic people and instead look for those that brand themselves as neurodivergent-focused. There’s a lot of “I had it bad so everyone else should have it bad too” as well as conditioned acceptance of societal issues in communities that label themselves as autism communities in my experience.

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        1 year ago

        Yep I’m right there with you. I find the push back against the neurodiversity movement in some of these autism communities really problematic as well. It’s often based on a significant misinterpretation of what the ND movement is.