carlos55 wrote:
Autism acceptance is classic Orwellian Doublespeak.
It’s problematic behaviours that get autistic people into trouble, not the autism label itself.
Nobody cares what something is called people are only bothered about how it may impact them.
For example schizophrenia has a stigma of fear around unprovoked violence committed by those who are psychotic, there are a number of tragedies that back that up. People are scared of “crazy people”
With autism it’s usually other things that negatively impact others maybe not respecting social norms, personal boundaries, annoying disruptive behaviour.
So it’s the behaviour itself people are being asked to accept, except we don’t go round with autistic tattooed on our heads so the public don’t know if they are dealing with someone deliberately being rude or with a brain condition.
Autism is not accepted anyway by the gov around the world they dedicate funds each year to research and prevent it.
All around the world gov research autism in an effort to prevent, treat or limit its effects in some way, irrespective of what hypocritical rubbish they put on their research websites about neurodiversity in some of these countries.
It’s all hypocrisy and BS and everyone laps it up every year without thinking logically.
It’s all one big lie
You make some good points here, Carlos.
Autism is often considered as something undesirable, stemming from eugenicist viewpoints of the late 19th and earlier 20th century. It is often spoken about like it is a death sentence by the media and is sometimes lumped in with other serious health conditions or disorders.
Whether a societal shift in attitudes towards people with autism and a lessening of discrimination would make autistic people less disabled/more able to participate in society as a regular person might be of some help, seems to be lost on a lot of NTs.
Instead, we get this awareness framing of autism, as if ignorant people suddenly being aware of autism is going to make them less discriminatory towards people with autism? Acceptance seems to be less problematic, but still relies on the voluntary participation of people willing to not discriminate against autistic people, which seems not to be happening at all currently, for the most part.
19 Apr 2025, 4:03 pm
