a list of enemies of the autistic community
Why don't we just show sympathy for NT's rather than paint them as our "enemies", please? And I don't honestly think because some Youtubers use the "R" word or make jokes necessarily makes one a truly wicked person. They can be good people at what they do. I don't hate on anyone. It is making our community look bad because how easily offended we can get and we are setting a target on ourselves. Doesn't anyone agree with me here?
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Yeah, just like the way the members of the American Library Association gets their nose bent out of joint when the old librarian stereotype get dragged out in the media. You know what I'm talking about: the old grey haired spinster with her hair in a bun forcing everyone to be quiet.
Instead of getting their collective noses out of joint, why doesn't the ALA just not comment on whoever drags that stereotype up for whatever reason? (I know, because my master's is in library science, and it always irks me then the leadership of the ALA start spending my dues (when I was still a member) to combat the stereotype, when it could be put to better use.
1: The average Neurotypical
2: Autism Speaks and all those who follow a similar ideology.
3: Autistic people condemning anyone who criticises the way neurotypicals behave towards Autistics.
4: Autistic people who start petitions calling for censorship of anyone who speaks critically of Autistics, even if it is obiously satire.
Hmmm the enemies....
simplistic theorists who want to make a career on the backs of people on the spectrum:
a fair few of them hang out in the social sciences:
- reductionists (in science, in psychiatry, in theories of causes of autism)
- anyone working in mental health who takes a disability view of autistic people
- psychologists who divide difference into normal and abnormal arbitrarily
- any academic who is more wedded to defending his or her own theories and reputation than acknowledging opposing evidence which contests the theories (yes you, Baron-Cohen, and Una Frith, though others too)
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2: Autism Speaks and all those who follow a similar ideology.
3: Autistic people condemning anyone who criticises the way neurotypicals behave towards Autistics.
4: Autistic people who start petitions calling for censorship of anyone who speaks critically of Autistics, even if it is obiously satire.
I am on an enemies list, Whoopee, I never though I would be that important.
Never thought 95% of that people I have ever known including all sorts of family members were that important either.
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5: People on the spectrum who are who (usually falsely) accuses anyone who criticises some neurotypicals of a: criticising all neurotypicals and b: being bigoted, while ignoring (or denying) the massive discrimination by the average neurotypical towards the average person on the spectrum.
Sadly some religious groups are still living in the dark ages and still consider us has evil, mostly the baptist nuts. Her is an example of what they say about us (WARNING, what they say is very hard to take and read, especially if you have autism)
http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=69903
But that website is fake right? Satire or something? It can't be serious.
There seems to be a lot of confusion on threads, including this one, about the difference between satire and parody.
"Animal Farm", a novel by George Orwell, is a prime example of what satire is: a humorous exposure of the misuse of power by the more powerful.
Parody is making fun of a target, sometimes with malice disguised as "just humour" - like the website cited in this thread.
Typically, parody bullies try to justify their malice by saying "oh it's just satire, don't you understand that?"
The website is still satire. They are satirising the crazy and bigoted opinions of religious people.
6: People on the spectrum who take troll websites seriously, and play into the hands of trolls.
7: Trolls themselves (although they wouldn't have any power without troll-feeders).
The thing is I haven't seen people use the term some neurotopicals.. and neurototypical is often used as a slur which is indeed bigoted.
I do not deny that there is discrimination against people who have ASD. Many people with various disabilities suffer through the same experiences.. and disability stigma does not help. It is a shame that some on WP are also no more tolerant of disabilities than neurotypicals as apparently seeing some forms of autism a disability would put me on the list. Why? Is having a disability something people should feel ashamed of?
"You are either with us or against us"?
I feel like this whole thread is just trying to suck people into hateful group think.
Yes.
I don't like the r-word myself and have called people when used but it is often used in ignorance than malice. When it is used in malice then it's a different ball game of course.
6: People on the spectrum who take troll websites seriously, and play into the hands of trolls.
7: Trolls themselves (although they wouldn't have any power without troll-feeders).
They don't need to slur autistics in order to satirise crazy religious bigots.
Think about your comments in terms of blaming the victims..
I don't find the Landover Baptist Church offensive. What would offend me is if satirists chose to self-censor.
As for ED, the point of the site is to shock and offend. If you just ignore them, then they have no power, but if you get riled up about them then you are playing right into their hands.
8: People who see Autism as nothing more than a disability.
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