The ever growing plague of Aspie supremacism

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I don't like labels, unless they're on jars and bottles.

Anyway, Aspie Supremacy sounds like, I dunno, people dressing up like ghosts while setting a giant Autism $peaks sign on fire.

I'm inclined to believe in the Neurodiversity side, regardless how helpless it is. At the same time I could care less if one changes their view and learn, or not; it's their choice.

But it's very clear what I'm against: Aspie Supremacists and deniers. More so when taken to the extreme.

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I've seen the supremacy attitude here before, it usually only rears its ugly head when someone is having an obvious breakdown though. About the only thing on that list I come even close to identifying with would be the neurodiversity movement, which has some credibility and seems like it's not harmful. Some people who have serious symptoms that do majorly impede on the quality of their life do need help though. I try to stay away from labels these days. There doesn't seem to be any definite answers about what Autism is actually.

Aspie supremacy is thinking Aspies are superior to NT's or Low Functioning Autistics. The supremacists will not usually say directly Aspies are superior but more often say negative things about NT's in general. They can make broad generalized unsupported positive statements about Aspies such as they don't lie, or Aspies have more of a sense of justice then the rest of the population.

As for feeling superior over LFA's I have seen it expressed in statements such I am offended if you call me “a person with autism” but it is ok to call Low Functioning people that. Unfortunately low functioning Autism advocate Carly Fleishmann lost her ability to communicate when she took electric shock treatments for OCD. Her father said the decision was hers. There is no evidence to contradict his statements. Despite all of her posts which showed intelligence and compassion most believed her dad made the decision or she was helplessly bamboozled into the decision. Nobody seemed to believe she was capable of making a decision on her own that was bad that went horribly wrong.

If a person says they oppose the dropping of the Aspergers diagnosis because others will associate them with low functioning autistics possibly leading to incorrect treatments for themselves, why is it assumed most people don’t mean that literally, but assume what that really mean is that they do not want to be associated with low functioning people personally?

Why do so many people assume Aspies who oppose ABA do so because they lack empathy for low functioning autistics and their parents? Maybe, just maybe they feel their Autistic brethren are being mistreated?

As for aspie neurodiversity supporters mentioning low functioning neurodiversity advocates why is assumed to be tokenism to resolve guilt over their supremacism? To me it is a normal defensive reaction to being constantly accused of all sorts of bad motives to mention the fact that some of the key leaders of the neurodiversity movement are severely autistic.

Neurodiverisity, agree or disagree with it on its merits. Don’t judge it by its extremists or critics who have successfully defined the movement by its supremacists.

In response to the above definition of Aspie Supremacy, posted by babybird:
Really? That's horrible.

Yup!!

Hard to be a supremacist when you have one of the worst disabilities around.

I'm for neurodiversity/autism pride, but heavily against autism supremacy.

I think there is an unhealthy notion that has worked it's way into the mainstream that there is some type of "perfect model brain/person" and that anyone who does not conform to that standard should be in some way changed or drugged into zombie-dom.

According to much of our society we should all be "straight, cis, neurotypical, christian, undisabled, white, handsome, male, western, tall and intelligent (etc)", where I think that diversity is a source of strength which should be accepted, accommodated and celebrated instead of attacked, dehumanised, vilified, brutalised and drugged into "conformity".

You can't even feel pain or have a natural feeling of stress without having drugs thrown at you these days.