I don’t make the rules
Remember how for six years when you mentioned autism the first person people thought of was at best Sheldon Cooper or the titular Good Doctor?
Now it’s going to be this guy :agony-shivering:
Aspergers is an outdated term and no one is diagnosed with it anymore, so that association hopefully won't affect most people on the spectrum
Oh NOW you care about optics huh??? Wearing the internalized ableism on your sleeve :yikes:
How about I don't want people to think of a ghoul when I share information about myself
You are correct. I attempted to use the capital NOW, the triple question marks and the comic sans yikes emoji to convey irony.
Oh god is he really saying he has this now? What a piece of shit, how fucking cynical.
I strongly suspect that there will be a line of bigotry / microagression that goes something like, "Look what Elon Musk did -- he has Aspberger's and he became the world's richest man! What's your excuse?"
I mean I'm highly suspicious he even suffers from the syndrome but I don't want to be like that and be the arbiter of who is and isn't truly on the spectrum. But regardless of that, of course people will conveniently leave out that he came from a wealthy family that owned diamond mines in africa allowing him the resources to do whatever he wanted in life.
I mean it do kinda suck sometimes. watching all the people i like, make friends w each other without me, gets old :(
Doesn't it negatively effect people as in makes their life worse? I'm not looking to pick fights here don't jump on me if I'm out of place here please.
Alright thanks for enlightening me. See, it's easy to correct someone when they're wrong in good faith instead of just always defaulting to someone is a piece of shit because they're uninformed and hitting them with snarked out emotes.
I'm ducking out of this conversation. I really don't want to be lectured about how much of a piece of shit I am today, I'm not in the mood for it.
Many people have many different experiences with it. Autism is unavoidably a disability in many respects, but some people have their own manifestations of autism that don't necessarily conflict with the life that they have. These people, as few as they may seem, still have a valid experience.
It can be disheartening to learn about the lives of such people when one's own experience with autism is marred with executive dysfunction and degraded interpersonal relationships due to being socially graceless (or a myriad of other things). You're not the only person who has felt left out in regards to advocation for neurodivergent acceptance, some people harbor absolutely no positive or neutral feelings for the challenges they face. It's an especially common sentiment among people who suffer schizophrenia, for example (as most experts never even attempt to assert positive qualities for schizophrenia as they might try for other disorders).
Many people who promote neurodiversity simply do it out of the hopes that the world would be a better place for those with mental disabilities. They don't necessarily want to make any declaration about how suffering is entirely external.
I'm not trying to be a dick or split hairs, but I don't suffer from anything, I just am the way I am. Don't make declarations for whole groups
Remove the spaces between the colons to make it continuous.
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Observe this transformation from empowering the disempowered to merit-shaming
Think we're good, Child labor in the Congo isn't a symptom of aspergers
inb4 libs start saying that wanting to enslave people just means you're neurodiverse
There's absolutely no way he's the first person with autism to host SNL. There have been so many hosts.
I think Dan Aykroyd was actually the first IIRC
This is literally wrong too, Dan Aykroyd has aspergers and hosted in 2003
I saw one clip from it and it was worse than I could ever imagine. He delivered his lines as if he just read them for the first time and didn't even attempt to change his tone or have any enthusiasm. Also that skit fucking sucked ass. They used a bunch of AAVE but didn't even bother do it correctly while also claiming it was just gen z speak. Awful
Does anyone still like this guy or is he still being pushed by bourgeois media as the savior of capitalism or what
Dan Aykroyd is diagnosed Asperger’s syndrome, has talked about it openly and has hosted more than once.
I wonder how long until he declares himself “African American” and tries to grant Joe Rogan an n-word pass
SNL already did this with Charlize Theron as a Tracy Morgan bit back in 2000.
This screenshot is not claiming that hating him is a form of bigotry, although I'm sure that'll be someone's bad take. There's nothing wrong with mentioning it, since he talked about it -- although I really wish we had better representation than him.
