The ever growing plague of Aspie supremacism

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I checked neurodiversity. I haven’t really seen much in the way of “aspie supremacy” around here. Even if I had, I wouldn’t follow it because 1. I’m a socialist and consider every person to have their own inherent worth (with the exception of a few specific kinds of criminals) and 2. I’m not an aspie, I’m a moderate functioning autistic.

I like the neurodiversity movement because it normalizes us and our behaviors. We’re not weird or broken, we just have a different and no less valid way of doing things, just like people from other cultures aren’t disabled because they have different ways of doing things. That’s not to say that I don’t consider us disabled, we definitely are, but that disability doesn’t negate the value of our unique way of living in the world.

While still a small minority of WP I have noticed an uptick in Autistic Supremacy(not so much Aspie supremacy) this year. Besides NT bashing it has come lately from people who think they have found the truth and want to liberate us. The writing is often in motivational speaking style. What usually happens is that these posts receive a lot of criticism and after a few months these people think we are hopelessly apathetic and pathetic and it dies down for a few months until a new crop of enlightened ones(sarcasm) start it up again.

You might be talking about that guy who was a troll. Him and his posts are deleted. 40% of us probably don't know any other people in person, 90% of us don't know another Aspie, is my guess at least.

To me the supremacy mindset reminds me of fear of the unknown and a desire to control reality, a maladaptive coping strategy.
Every so often a new member will post something akin to autistic supremacy, but to me it's just a troll, or someone that has developed the above coping mechanisms.

Don't really know. In the end the personal character counts much more than being ND or NT. Would like if there would be more aspies around because it would make us less isolated and I think we get along a bit easier with each other.

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