Using "autistic" as a derogatory term; please don't

[VGPolyglot]

Azuren said:

VGPolyglot said:

Well, it works well with stereotypes of how autistic people are expected to act I guess. Just like how my aunt calls unmowed lawns "niggery", a family friend calls a deed to the house a "nigger's will" and how my uncle calls jerry-rigging "nigger-rigging", the fact of the matter is that it is using an innate trait as a negative term.

That's a whole lot of N-bombs to drop just in the name of conflating autism with race.

Because essentially they are similar, people don't choose whether they have autism in the same way that people don't choose their race, so criticizing/attacking them for it should not be acceptable. Using autistic or "dripping with autism" as an insult is saying that being autistic itself is a bad thing.

Last edited by VGPolyglot - on 23 June 2018