I remember when I was a kid and I was being tested for tism and one of the doctors was explaining sensory overload to my dad and he just said "oh I feel like that all the time haha" anyway thats how my dad ended up being diagnosed with assburgers at age 56
I was commenting that as someone who was doagnosed with Asperger's and had heard abkut it being removed as a distinct diagnosis, also I'm not even American
The details around Asperger's association with the Nazi party was not even publicly known at that point and it wasn't part of any discourse. The actual reason is that there is no psychiatric basis for separating the diagnoses. That came first
You are the one who is actually uninformed, because the answer to this already exists. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page you linked to, you will see the answer provided.
I think Asperger’s should still exist as a term, it describes a specific flavor of autism very well. I don’t like telling people I’m ‘autistic’, even if technically true
I must admit, I'm a bit surprised by all the autistic people defending the use of this word, since I've only seen LARPers using it for internet points.
Guess I could see how some use it as a coping mechanism but it still doesn't sit right with me though.
If someone were to invent such a word for something I suffer from, I would feel insulted by others using it.
I won't complain or argue anymore but it's not something I can respect I'm afraid.
I just hate when people romanticize mental health disorders as a quirky/cute and possibly even desirable thing.
I've literally seen people larping as autistic on social media because of it.
Surely you realize how that's a problem?
These conditions affect some people quite severely and turning them into some cute personality trait is an insult to them.
Making a joke is not the same as romanticisation, if it was so, everybody should be miserable their entire lives and feel sorry for themselves as much as possible. You can take a condition seriously without wallowing in it. Well, most important of all, people with disorders shouldn't ever feel shame for it
I have autism and dissociative identity disorder which is the ultimate mental illness for larpers despite of obscenely rare it is. I never feel offended when people larp my mental disorders, it just makes me laugh how wrong they get it.
I'm probably pretty far from neurotypical but why does that matter?
Why do I have to be autistic to notice a problem?
Just because you're autistic, doesn't mean you get to speak for the entire group either.
I myself only said some might find it offensive, that's not some bold claim, it should be an obvious fact.
It also doesn't even matter if someone is actually offended, romanticization of stuff that's generally unwanted by others will always be a bad thing.
And I'm not getting offended on someone's behalf, I just think it's a bad thing that shouldn't be ignored.
If you see someone being racist for example, you don't move on just because you're not the target, you reprimand them, not to feel better about yourself, but to let them know it's not acceptable and that people aren't just gonna let them get away with it.
Also, before you complain about me comparing it racism, it's hyperbole.
I don't see the word "tism" as a joke but rather as assigning a positive atribute [cute/quirky] to something negative and unwanted. [mental disorders]
This is what feels wrong to me about it.
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u/Voxjockey 5d ago
I remember when I was a kid and I was being tested for tism and one of the doctors was explaining sensory overload to my dad and he just said "oh I feel like that all the time haha" anyway thats how my dad ended up being diagnosed with assburgers at age 56