I was seeing very heavy "bad actors ruin bpd for the REAL bpd sufferers" yesterday
Oh yuck. Lol. That's a really gross attitude for someone to hold.
It's all good though, I'm glad that it was just a miscommunication and I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and giving me the opportunity to clarify.
I know it's no consolation but there's a similar sort of civil war raging within the autistic community - on one side is a faction where people are claiming to be the "real" autistic group, to the exclusion of higher support needs and non-speaking autistic people (these are the "it's not a disability, it's a superpower" types and the ones who refuse to recognise that there are difficult/harmful aspects of autism, even if they do not personally experience them, such as stims that can cause serious injury or having an extremely restricted diet to the point that it negatively impacts your health) and then on the other side is a faction that essentially wants to re-establish the Asperger's-Autism diagnostic divide because the lower support needs autistic people are "taking over" or, sometimes, that they are "stealing" supports and services from the people who genuinely deserve them. It's a real mess and I don't see it clearing up any time soon. The autistic community desperately needs its own Huey P Newton figure, I think.
Yeah, I wanted to get active in my local "queer" stuff and it's too much infighting and the well-off people dominate and make it into like protest pyramid schemes and municipality funded cop hugging parades... I am also autistic, but besides professional ngo career people there is no one speaking in our name in my place and the ngo people are doing a godawful job obviously. My idealist impulses said that solidarity needs to like make a comeback (if it ever was there)but obv it's not that easy
Oh yuck. Lol. That's a really gross attitude for someone to hold.
It's all good though, I'm glad that it was just a miscommunication and I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and giving me the opportunity to clarify.
I know it's no consolation but there's a similar sort of civil war raging within the autistic community - on one side is a faction where people are claiming to be the "real" autistic group, to the exclusion of higher support needs and non-speaking autistic people (these are the "it's not a disability, it's a superpower" types and the ones who refuse to recognise that there are difficult/harmful aspects of autism, even if they do not personally experience them, such as stims that can cause serious injury or having an extremely restricted diet to the point that it negatively impacts your health) and then on the other side is a faction that essentially wants to re-establish the Asperger's-Autism diagnostic divide because the lower support needs autistic people are "taking over" or, sometimes, that they are "stealing" supports and services from the people who genuinely deserve them. It's a real mess and I don't see it clearing up any time soon. The autistic community desperately needs its own Huey P Newton figure, I think.
Yeah, I wanted to get active in my local "queer" stuff and it's too much infighting and the well-off people dominate and make it into like protest pyramid schemes and municipality funded cop hugging parades... I am also autistic, but besides professional ngo career people there is no one speaking in our name in my place and the ngo people are doing a godawful job obviously. My idealist impulses said that solidarity needs to like make a comeback (if it ever was there)but obv it's not that easy