My Indignant Response to People Who Use Autism as an Insult
Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Thu, 11/30/2017 - 8:43pm
This is something I've noticed over the years, especially in comment sections (Youtube is by far the worst), online gaming, and other cyber spaces where people gather. I'd like to know just what the hell compels keybord warriors on various sites to use autism, autistic, or autist as an insult. It's no different than calling someone a retard or retarded.
Either way, using disability as an insult shows that not only do these keyboard warriors not understand disability, they don't have much of substance to say.
And here's what makes this worse: Some people actually make money (through posting derogatory content) from this kind of crap.
Such is the way of 'online etiquette', I suppose.
See ya around,
Aspie
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Don't let
that you can not change affect what you can.
Are you really surprised or angry that some make money while pushing human buttons?
The best you can ever do is laugh in the face of those who mock you.
Peace is hard to find but I pass mine on to you.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Yep, folks want a new insult,
Yep, folks want a new insult, especially moronic trolls with no clue what the word actually entails that they use. They just care that folks feel insulted when they do it. Best is to ignore them until the thrill of the word wears away and they find some new word to abuse.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Many people are just assholes
I see this type of comment on way too many websites. It apparently makes them see themselves as bigger and smarter than others. They make this type of comment on the articles when cops shoot unarmed blacks and they call smarter people libtards.
This says more about them than who they're commenting about.
It may be about people with disabilities, but I think it's more that they are asses.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
I don’t see autism as a disability, but as a different way
of looking at the world. People who use it as an insult are acting like ignorant louts.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
@Lily O Lady
Lol, yeah, telling someone they're doing something 'like a girl' is considered an insult, too. Always consider the source; sometimes sewer gas just bubbles up because it's there. If that helps at all...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I hope that didn't happen here.
But yeah, there are sites I have given up on simply because the crowd that hangs out there are unfiltered idiots. And comments like that related to Autism (or any other disability) simply expose the ignorance of the commentor.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Years ago, somebody on slashdot posted a rant about
the miscellaneous deficiencies of individuals with a behavioral syndrome he dubbed "sociotism". Sociotics mysteriously, and often to their detriment, tended to organize their lives (at every level of activity) according to an obsession with subtle and often ambiguous interactions and communications with other people.
It was thought-provoking, though I did not (and do not) fully subscribe to the thesis. I do think there is something "wrong" with folks on the spectrum (and I say that as the parent of someone who is somewhere in that space) -- but it would take half a book just trying to nail down a general definition of "having something wrong" with oneself. I'm afraid I'm not fully with the left-wing program on this realm of sociopolitical debate, either with the semantics or the pragmatics. I think deaf people have something medically "wrong" with them, whether or not it pleases them to think of themselves that way -- actually, I think it's fascinating that of the five senses, it is only impairment of the hearing that any significant number of people seriously argue represents a "differential" ability rather than a fundamental functional disability meriting whatever technological mitigation is available. I also think (uh, oh) that there is clearly something medically "wrong" with at least some transgendered folks -- because if there weren't, medical -- and especially surgical -- intervention would not ever be indicated. This seems to me to be a tautology: If something isn't broken, it doesn't need fixing, but I am told -- and I have no reason nor standing to dispute the assertion -- by the transgendered subjects themselves that for some of them, something does need "fixing" in the form of medical intervention.
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.