Autistic slurs.

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What do you think makes a slur against an autistic and what ones have you been called yourself?

I'll start with Mr Bean, Napoleon Dynamite, choir boy and spastic.

I consider a slur to be a derogatory caricature that was meant to be ridiculed and mocked or just words with known offensive meanings.

Trigger (from Only Fools And Horses).
Speedy

Dingbat, crazy b***h.

Freak. I hate this word.

The usual…

Weird
Weirdo
Snobby (a bit of a local one, that)
Brusque
“You’d almost make a proper human being”… supposedly from a friend.

I haven’t included any comments from family.

Fathead.

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When i First Arrived on this Internet Site, The "Wrong Planet,"
Back On Thankgiving Day, 2010, As an Avatar of A Real Baby of me

With A Bright And Shining Smile And Crystal Clear Baby Blue Eyes;

Yet Lost in the Darkness of Never

Remembering Even if i Ever
Felt A Feeling Of A Smile Then;

True, Escaping the Real Suicide
Disease; at Least An Attempt of Escaping

Literally the Worst Pain Known to Humankind, Type
Two Trigeminal Neuralgia From Wake to Sleep For 66 Months
As i Was 33 Months in So Far As A Shut-in in my Bedroom With

A Pain in my Right Eye And Ear Like a Dentist Drill that No Drug Would
Touch; Yes, Literally Assessed as Worse than the Torture of Real Crucifixion That

No Drug Would Touch for me; Rendering Eyesight and Hearing Almost Effectively

Useless; Having to Turn the Screen Brightness All the Way Down; Focus Provided by
Prescription Shades Only Making the Pain More Severe; Removing Those Lens Just

A Few Inches In Front of the Dimly
Lit Screen; Every Frigging Word i Wrote

A Mountain of Pain; Never Knowing if i Could
Make it to the Next Second of Life; All Faith, Love,
And Hope; Yes, Even the Memory of A Smile Gone in the

Same Old, Same Old, God Damned Hell Every Second of Every

Day of Another Ground Hog Day Then AKA AGHOGDAY in Hell

Within For Real, Never Ending then, along with 18 Other Life Threats

of Medical Disorders in Synergy That Came From A Long Highway to Hell

Related to 11 Years of Chronic to Acute Fight or Flight Work Related Stress

Then From 1996 Through 2007, Until All the Social Stress in Cognition And

Mechanical Cognition Stress For All i Had to Do in Both Realms Brought me to

my Knees
And Literally
Almost Killed

me in What is Commonly
Understood as "Autism Burn-out"

As Per the Blog Post i Wrote About that Back
in 2013, Shortly Before my Words Turned Poetic
Connecting Emotions to Words; Regaining the Feeling

of A Smile And Moving into Moving Meditating Flow
of Public Dance Free; Building Up my Cerebellum into

A Brand New Human Creation of Social Empathic Emotional
Regulating Ways of Being With the Sensory Integration Moving
Meditation in Flow Brings As Well As Science Shows This is True Now too...

Anyway that Very Short Technical Blog Post About Autism Burnout is still Referenced

By Several Research Papers, Peer Reviewed, About the Condition of Autism Burnout

That Quite A Few

People on this
Internet Site
Still Talk About
Today in Their Own
Challenges of Life That

Come With the Many So-called
'Autistic Slurs' They Have Endured in Life too,

As Even Tony Atwood, Considered an Expert in Asperger's
Syndrome Still Identified Then Before the New DSM 5 Definition

That Basically Lumped it all Together With Severity Scales; Yes As

Tony Atwood Who Was More Associated With Original Gillberg Criteria

For Asperger's Syndrome, More in Alignment With Actual Case Studies of Hans Asperger

That Showed in those Cases Verbal Hyperlexic Type Delays and Motor Coordination Problems

Where Also Part oF The Overall Condition to Where He Actually Felt A Male With Asperger's

Syndrome Could
Be Identified With
What He Called

"Spot the Aspie,"

Walking With Arms Stiff at
Side Looking Down at the
Ground to Keep Moving Ahead;

And Yes, This is A Real Problem as
Typically Humans Assess Other Humans
All Innately, Instinctually, And Intuitively Almost

in An Instance, Just By The Way they Move in a
Three Dimensional Environment; And of Course How

Their Facial Muscles Dance too In Non-Verbal Communication too;

Sadly, Some Folks believe that Folks With Asperger's Syndrome Who Don't
Understand it Are Doing This on Purpose, Just acting Like A Fool As I've Surely

Been Called A Fool Earlier in Life in So Many Ways, Just For How i Moved Differently;

Yet Still Very Happy and Smiling Yet Still Spit on For Not Fitting the Norm of a Very 'Toxic
Trump Meme Patriarchy' in the 'Deep South First Baptist Trump States' Then Too as True

The 'Master
Of Modern
Slurs The
Trump Meme' too
Still Surely Rings Dead
in Bringing Folks Down

Instead of Raising them Up For Real...

i No Longer Have Issues with the Way i Move...

True, i Was Just A Permanently Disabled Avatar

Online For Around 33 Months After Just Shut-in
my Bedroom For 33 Months Before That; Yes, Finally

Recovering From the Pain and Numb on July 19, 2013...

i've Been Called Just About Every Slur in My Lifetime in 'The Books'

However i've Also Been Named Famous, Hero, And Living Legend Yet

Not Until After Age 53 Becoming a Public Dancer Recovered From All that Pain and

Numb; Finally Naked, Enough, Whole, Complete Comfortable in my Own Skin Fearless

And Free

And Yes

As Much as Folks
Slurred me Before;

i Received Accolades

Everywhere i Went too
And Still Go Now As Well
For Over 112 Months; Yes,

Finally For my Skills Hehe

in Smooth Dancing Moves
Original And Creative All Coming

Naturally From Within Spiraling About

Like the Milky Way Above Below as me

And Even Accused of Skating on Terrestrial
Floors of Walmart, Until Folks Saw All i Had

on Was Athletic Shoes;

Last Kid Picked in Sports

in Middle School Nipped At By

All the Other Fish in that Big Old
Aquarium Owned By All of 'Them' Then

Versus Little

Old Man

Looking Moving
Boy Then; My my, What
A Gift Change Will Be For

Human Epigenetic Potential Unpacked

When Challenges in Environmental Struggle

Are Met And Even Superseded As Such As Just Last

Night A Young Man in the Military Gym Where i Work-out

At Easily Leg Pressing 1540 Pounds, 12 Reps, With My Arms Raised to
The Heavens in Just About Perfect Balance Warming Up With More than
6 Scale my Usual Weight of 111 Kilograms; Although i'm Pushing More
Than 247 Pounds of Personal Weight During The Holidays Hehe; Anyway

The Young Man Thanked me for Not Saying A Word; Thanked me for Inspiring

Him Just through
the Non-Verbal

Exercise of Leg Pressing

Three-Quarters Of A Ton 12
Reps With 'Look Mom' no Hands
Raised to the Heavens FRiEnDS With Gravity For Real.

Typically Folks More Comfortable in 'Packs' Will 'Assassinate
What They Don't Understand' to Shame Others into Conformity With the Norm.

If You are Trapped At Work or School This is Very Effective as There is No Where to Escape

Unless You Leave School or Work That Might mean Consequences Up to Literally Not Having Enough to Eat;

Indeed, It Can Be A Very Effective Way to Enforce Conformity to the Norm; And Of Course Particularly; Yes

Now for the Most
Abused Folks in
Society These
Days Folks of
Transgender Differences;
With Highest Rates of Suicide;
Feeling they Just Can't Survive
With All the Social Slur Abuse;

Yeah, i Was Also Confused As A Girl
When i Wore my Hair Longer too;

Taunted Verbally And Abused
For that too; Yes For Being Strange

Non-Verbally; And Stuttering too as i didn't
Even Speak Until Age 4; And Yes For Being Assessed
As Looking Ugly All the Slurs That Come from that And

Eventually For Being so Thin in 8th Grade Almost 6 Feet
Tall then And Only 120 Pounds; Oh All the Slurs and Verbal

Bullying That Appearance Brought too; Plus i Dressed Eccentrically too;'

i Didn't Know Any Better As my Mother Let me Be Whoever i Wanted to Be;

Guess what, i've Been Financially
Independent For 15 Years; No
School, Work, or Church alone

Imprisons me in their Walls,
Ceilings and Floors of Social Abuse;

As i Own my Own 'Aquarium' Now;

And Even Dancing A Free Style Martial
Arts and Ballet Style Dance in Public; i Move

So Fearlessly Now And Smooth that Folks Insist

i Must Be Undercover Law Enforcement Both in Stores

And Even Public Dance Halls too; As They Figure Out Why

Anyone Would

Solo Dance For

No Reason at All;

You See, Not Everything in Life is ALL About Reasons;

For Dance And Song Free May Bring You More Non-Verbal
Abilities Than You Ever Imagined Even existing to become

Naked, Enough, Whole, Complete; i Love to Watch the 'Little

Sheldon' Show on TV; Only Difference is He Looks Normal

And Nothing About

me Looked Normal
Then; And No Matter What

i Do Now Moving Fearlessly

And Free; No Matter What i Wear

People Pay Respect to me Wherever i Go.... IN REAL 'navi' LIFE;

Nah, No Spots the Aspie Anymore; And Whenever i Do

i Am Kind to
Them and

Treat 'Them'

No Less than me

As i've Stumbled

Around Like a Dizzy
Fly in Those Shoes too;

Yet i met the Struggle and
Overcame it too; i Don't See

Why Other Folks Might Not Do it too....

Anyway Here's A Candid Pic of Both

Me and My Sister Diagnosed With Asperger's
Syndrome in Middle Age By Many Different

Diagnosing Professionals in Agreement; in my
Case 4 Professionals; Yet Of Course that was Before

i Became A New Creation of Human Being Through
Much Struggle and Adaptation; All the Professionals

Agree That By Behavior at Least There is no Spotting The Aspie of me Now;

Hehe, Until, i Open

My Mouth and

Talk About my
Special Interests

to No End of the
Depth of my Story Now;

Yes, i Still Have my All Encompassing
Special Interests; In Fact, It's Still on the Record on this

Internet Site; Back in the Days Shut-in my Bedroom Mostly
in my Underwear Permanently Disabled Yet Avatar on this Internet
Site; Folks insisted that i was a Paid Employee of the Autism Speaks Organization;

As i Became So Knowledgeable About the Condition; And Didn't Agree with

Their Non-Sensical
Illogical Theories Then

About the Volunteer
Organization Being
Some Kind of Nazi
Organization With
A Eugenic Plan to

Rid the World of Autistic Folks;

Indeed, i did everything in my Power
To Rid Myself of the Functional Disabilities

of the Condition; The Best Remedy Ever to me,

Just Frigging Being Comfortable in my own Skin;

Something i Never Experienced Until the Real Remedy

of A Free Flowing Meditation of Dance That i Still Literally

Have A Prescription From a Doctor For; In case Store Management

Questions the
Reason Why

i Dance;

Truly, There is No
Reason, it's the Natural
Way to Balance Life in Both
Regulating Emotions and Integrating Senses;

The Reason Children Dance with No Lessons

And Sing Non-Sense Songs With No Meaning Yet the Joy

of Dancing
And Singing
Free Just Nirvana
And Bliss Within;

A Free Meditation and

Dance and Song Children Naturally

Do Until Trapped Behind Desks and Screens,

Forced to Become only Avatars of Human Frigging Free Beings...

After the First 'Avatar Movie,' it Was Reported Some Humans Committed

Suicide

After Seeing

How Lost they

Had Become From
Even Being Human

ALL NATURALLY AS NATURE

FOR REAL ALL INTEGRAL WHOLE;

And In My Case, Being the Star
Student With All the Gold Stars

For Sitting Still Behind A Desk

Eventually Leading to Three
College Degrees Earned at Once
Always Close to the Top of the Class;

Yet my Eventual Down Fall iN ParT From Even
Being Comfortable in my Own Frigging Skin...

At Least in the Way i Move and The Ease i Communicate
With Others Fearlessly Socially NoW As Well in Real Life; i'm Basically

The Least
Autistic
Person

i Come
into Contact With Now;

As Environment Counts A Whole Damn Lot;

As the Dudes in the Military Gym Spend Their
Minutes Behind Their Screens; And Sadly

Only Pushing the Weight of The Bars

Without Even Any Plates at all...

There's a Lot of Lessons to be

LEarned in Life, if You Actually
Put Them into Action For Change...

i Try to Inspire Folks For Change; In the 'REAL
World' at Least, i Am told i make a Difference...

In The Avatar World of Anonymous Faces, The

Measurable Results May Sound More like the Slurs

i've Received on this Internet Site For Ironically Expressing
myself in Even More Neuro-Diverse Ways Ranging From Accusations
Of Disorders Less Popular than Autism Here to i Should Be Strapped

Down in an Institution Injected Involuntarily With Thorazine

While the Same Day

Beautiful And Stellar

Intelligent Women in Other
Countries Assessed me as Profoundly Genius;

With Of Course the Quotes Still Recorded and Linked For Real

in both places as i Carry All the Evidence With Me in All Places Online

And in the 'REAL WORLD TOO' ON A 6 INCH SCREEN TOO;

And True As Far
As Leg Pressing Goes;

i Recorded 1340 Pounds
at 12 Reps Very Slowly
Back on Saint Patrick's
Day of 2019 in Much Better

Physical Shape and Much Stronger
Now at Age 62; Anyway the Response

There Was That 'They' Hoped it All Fell
Down on me and Killed me Dead; Just Like
Other Folks Say i Should Kill Myself for Expressing

Myself Differently too;

i Understand How Small
A Human May Feel to Try to Bring
Folks Down to How Small They Feel;

There Are Two Ways of Life; Either

Victory or
Vengeance;

i Choose Victory And
Still Naturally Continue to Truly Win
Lifting other Folks Up Continually Getting
Stronger IN EVERY WAY OF BEING TRULY HUMAN.

Change is All that Doesn't Change in Life; The Greatest
Gift or Curse Depending On How We Adapt to Challenge in Life....

Anyway, For those Who May Question the 'Male Autistic Stereotype,'
i Surely Met it Fully

By Appearance

in Non-Verbal

Ways and Moves
Back When i Was in 6th Grade
And Long After That As Well Until

i Reached 53 Years of Age; hehe,

When the Comic Book Hero 'HellBoy'

Started His 'Super Hero' Career Out of Hell too...

Funny Little Synchronicities, Indeed, Like the 'Omen'
of my Driver's License Birth Date of 6.6.60 That the

'Fundie Cashiers'
At Walmart Used
to Get All Literally

Terrified Slurring me
As The Devil in Hell then
in my 40's; Carding me for an Occasional Beer Soon to Come
For Real For me at Least Within, Just A Few Years Later at age 47...

Oh the Depth of 'The Story' Indeed, Where Younger Folks No Longer

Pay Attention

In So Many
Cases of the
LeSSoNS Elders Still BRinG...

A Few Still Do; Those Who
Desire More Than Just the 'Current Norm...'

For Indeed, The 'Current Norm' May BE A Real
FRoZeN Highway to

HeLL ON EartH...

For Real,

No Myth;

Don't Always
Accept What
Folks Tell 'You' Is 'Real'
As A So-Called Modern
'Norm' That is Truly Only Myth...

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ret*d. That ugly word that got thrown at me as a kid by NT bullies. Till this day, I'm still very sensitive to the notion of someone questioning my intelligence because that word had been thrown at me back when my socially inept behavior made me a target.

I was once in with a bunch of friends who wore the term "freaks" as a badge of honour. See "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers." Not that we were exactly like them (didn't know where to get the drugs from, for one thing, and not all of us even wanted to know, but that was OK). I'm still good friends with most of the ones who are still alive. We were in our late teens and we stood mainstream ideology on its head a lot. It's rather refreshing to see one's unusual nature as a progressive sign instead of something to hide away.

This is the only one that came to mind. The others are mostly just regular insults.

This one comes to mind because prior to Autism/Asperger's Syndrome/ASD, everything was just all lumped together as "Mental Retardation," and thus the word ret*d was used in a derogatory way to refer to anyone that exhibited AS(D) traits and/or low IQ and/or any of a number of learning disabilities etc and has since been used as an insult.

I use the word sometimes, depends on the situation/context etc. I don't personally get called that so it isn't a trigger for me or anything. But this is what autism literally used to be called soooo, it's the word that comes to mind as a slur for it.

Forest Gump.

ret*d.

Peanut brain.

Weird.

Freak
ret*d
Chrispergers

A few years ago, around the same time I was diagnosed ASD-1, a cousin called me "Sheldon"...given he and I mostly spent time together when we were young this is likely a reference to Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon.
>-1. I don't know if he knew about my diagnosis.⁺
>-2. I don't know how negative he meant it to be, if at all.
>-3. I've not seen much of Young Sheldon and I've never watched young me on TV
>-3.-so I don't know how accurate it might be.
All in all, I don't know whether or not I'm offended (though certainly not much). ⁺

But I am confused and curious.

When I was a small child, like maybe 4 or 5, sometimes when grandma got overwhelmed she would call up my mom and tell her to pick up her "ret*d" child.

I was late to join the first grade mid-year, because local schools were refusing to enroll me, saying I would be too "disruptive", instead advising my parents to find a special needs school, I was able to join when my parents and I moved in with grandparents in a different district. Because it was mid-year, the children were already used to one another and I was a newcomer, a nickname the rough equivalent of "new kid" stuck around because I was not fitting in even after some time. We moved (and therefore changed schools) a couple more times, so that was a recurring thing for me, I think I even self-identified as such. I changed schools due to moving residence a total of 4 times.

No, that's BPD. The "crazy b***h syndrome" is the unofficial name for that disorder. Encountered one myself, literally the first thing that flew out of my mouth, it's very accurate when they make up the most insane falsehoods. I realize it's hurtful to hear, but it's so very true!

It wasn't me but I understand there was one kid who was called "the dopey one".

I've got "sloth". Because I speak slowly and I move slowly apparently. That is something many people have told me.