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26 Aug 2017, 4:39 pm

In the current PC culture of victimhood, if we're a minority, then we have rights and a voice. People will care, people will rally for us, we'll be something worth fighting for. It will be OK to be us.

If we're not, then we're just "broken normal people who need to be fixed." If we're not a demographic minority, then we're just a disease.

That's sick, and sad, and disgusting...

...but it's also kinda TRUE.


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30 May 2018, 2:33 pm

Because we are not the majority. and for the same reasons other discriminated groups do.



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30 May 2018, 4:36 pm

K_Kelly wrote:
Yes, most of the world's population aren't autistic. But I associated the word "minority" with identity politics and this "poor me, poor me" mentality.


Why is that?


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30 May 2018, 4:40 pm

NightEclipse wrote:
If autistic people feel like minorities, sometimes it's because they choose to feel that way. Personally, I try not to let my Asperger's define who I am. I'm so much more than some disorder.


Its not a choice that there are more people who aren't autistic than those who are thus making autistic people in the minority...that's just a fact.


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30 May 2018, 5:51 pm

Autistic people are a minority and should be regarded as such.


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31 May 2018, 8:15 am

Well the whole world isn't autistic so maybe that does consider us as being a minority. I know just being black generally tags me as being a minority but technically being autistic might would tag me as such too.



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31 May 2018, 8:47 am

K_Kelly wrote:
... I associated the word "minority" with identity politics and this "poor me, poor me" mentality.
Same here. I see any attempt to gain 'minority' status for a disability as a thinly-veiled attempt to gain the special privileges accorded to real minorities -- preferences in education, hiring and housing, for example.

I also believe that a small group of 'Special Snowflakes' is trying to create a 'Safe Space' for themselves where they could be free from any form of criticism or legal action for 'Acting Out' against whatever they don't like.