• Comment105@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I bid that non autistic people be named and categorized in a way that highlights their subtly hostile, backstabbing, cruel nature. You know, the common household “psychopath” who doesn’t actually meet the requirements for real psychopathy, but is still pathologically a dickish cynic playing a social game for minor wins in wealth and status, instead of simply being a friendly and polite contributor to society.

    They named us.

    Maybe we should name them.

    Describe the traits that define them. Go into detail about what exactly is so wrong with them. Why they kill rally for warmongers. Why they sabotage eachother. Why they face obvious long term problems with such oblivious nonchalance.

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      2 months ago

      instead of simply being a friendly and polite contributor to society.

      Do you think allistic people are inherently incapable of doing this earnestly?

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      2 months ago

      Words aren’t bad in and of themselves, usually. For one, “psychopath” freely translates to “suffering soul” but you could also do “mind in disease”. Neither sound too insulting, per se, do they?

      You’ll alway have euphemisms and if there’s a difference that can be noted, then usually the people’s who differ from the norm will be called something “bad”.

      Take left-handed people. Sinister. That’s where the word comes from. “Sinister” as in the Latin word for “left”.

      Then we’ll just end up on the

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_treadmill

      Why care about what words someone uses if you know you have better ones yourself? It’s the intent behind the words that most often matters. To neurotypicals, anyway.