• vala@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Can we please avoid “autistic” as an insult.

    Edit: I get that this was hyperbole/satire but it still can hurt people’s feelings.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      I didn’t read it as an insult. If it was, then “lesbians” was an insult, too. It sounds like OP’s just using the hate-mongers’ own words.

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      16 hours ago

      That’s literally what they call trans men. That is the argument. We are all supposedly autistic, which means that we can’t be trusted to make decisions over our own bodies. That is constantly used to infantilize us, and will eventually be used to take away our ability to access transition.