Take a seat and learn to be a better person with language.

https://twitter.com/TheFaerth/status/1411441095767064576?s=19

  • NewAccountWhoDis [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Started off good and then went into uh, some really insulting territory. A lot of these in an attempt to defend neuraldivergent people actually ends up attacking them for example the part on empathy. Most talk about a group of people lacking empathy is actually just an ableist lie rather than them actually lacking it. All this thread does then for that part is perpetuate the lie.

    Some of it is also clearly personal pet peeve rather than actual language problems. Many people do prefer to use terms such as differently abled with themselves.

    Another one is Asperger's, many people grew up with the term and identify as having Asperger's or as an aspie, they are not anti-semitic for doing this.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Idk if someone calls me "differently abled", "specially abled" or anything like that I'll whack them with my cane. It's just so incredibly insulting in my personal experience

      • NewAccountWhoDis [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        That's fine to not like it, just that there are plenty of people who do use it for themselves so it's not good to paint with a broad brush either.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Very true, but at the same time people are taught this person first language and think that they can use it to refer to any disabled person, despite a ton of us hating such language and terms. Like ask us first please. Not everyone is the same. At the end of the day just ask if you're not sure