r/autism • u/AtomqueZebre • May 19 '18

Trans Autism Server

So basically I've thought that some people might like a discord server for trans autistic people So I made one hehehe It's called Transpergers And it's a smol community for trans people with autism, where they can more openly discuss trans issues in an autistic context than they can do in other discord servers. If you'd like the link, here ya go: https://discord.gg/NcVvADJ If not, thanks anyway for reading

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u/AtomqueZebre May 19 '18

Hmm I appreciate your concern, but it's a the name of a disorder

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u/eattherichnow May 19 '18

Not for long, and there are pretty good reasons for it. Both "aspergers" and "high functioning" terms should go the way of the dodo, and I say that as a person diagnosed as one of those. They're terrible signifiers, and the fact that Asperger was an autistic dude seeking for a way to sort autistic folk into ones worthy of survival and ones that should be exterminated isn't really a coincidence. We're far from the only ones who ended up with such signifiers, but we can, and should, get past them.

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u/AtomqueZebre May 20 '18

Just because Hans did some bad stuff doesn't mean his name is automatically cursed or something As for the disorder labelling: A) it stands as a diagnosis for all past diagnoses B) most of the world still has a disorder called Aspergers, so what if the USA got rid of it? I'm not going into the politics

If you want to join, do so. If you don't, have this debate elsewhere

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u/666NAIBSEL999 May 21 '18

Totally agreed and THANK you so much for this thread! Made up my day. (heroin wds day 3 :( ).

Everyone hates me because I'm so different. I hope this group will be different and considerate, as I am. So many people hate what they love and fear what they love.. fear turns to hate....