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Okay, I've read only a handful of pages, but I've read enough to feel that I know what the rest say. I think most of our members are wildly overreacting to a very mundane post that does nothing more than request consideration. The prevailing reaction has been to suggest that the OP is demanding the blanket prohibition of the word "autistic" and kind of freak out. The said contributor himself clarified way back on page 1 that that wasn't the case and that he was but kindly requesting its more appropriate application in the future, but since people apparently can't be bothered to read more than one post before replying, the needless controversy continues on page 18. There is a real irony to this collective meltdown in that the purveyors thereof accuse the OP of hypersensitivity. I just wanted to point out that irony because it's really, really stupid.