New mental illness diagnosis

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Those of us on the spectrum may or may not find this funny:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Neur ... l_syndrome

Wonderful!
(Please no one take it too seriously.)

I realize that this is meant to be a joke, but it's a very harmful joke. The last thing aspies should be doing is widening the "us vs. them" rift, which is exactly what this link is doing.

One of my classes had an assigned reading about using "White" methods to research. It was basically about a researcher questioning the covert racism in social research. White sociologists became very upset by this questioning, because they weren't used to looking at themselves or their own behaviors critically as a dominant racial majority.

I think the same kind of thing happens with NTs, where it OFFENDS them to be looked at critically and joked about. I've seen that article before and I think it's funny, but I'm used to looking at my own NT behavior critically because of my research and aspie family members

But I agree, if more people on the spectrum openly criticized NT behavior it would just end up with the NTs becoming more hostile toward the idea of neurodiversity.

I wonder how many NTs would actually meet the criteria lol.

It was just stereotypical stuff about NTs. I know not all NTs are like that so I wonder how many of them would actually have the condition lmao.