| Mummelmann said: As someone who works with autistic kids; I agree with OP. I'm very, very far from being politically correct as a person but I really dislike this term being used this way. |
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It's very easy for people to misunderstand where we are coming from when we simply reject the use of a word in certain context due to the nature of our work, culture, religion etc. While I myself don't let words bother me so much, using "autistic" as an insult really gets under my skin because I know and work with adolescents and adults with varying levels of autism and all most of them want is to desperately be accepted by society like any other person.
To an uninformed, immature person, autism is a "fun jab" or "joke", but to an autistic person it's another reason for them to continue believe that society views them as different. I mean using the term as mere insult implies that autism is bad thing by default.
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