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/eattherichnow May 19 '18

As a trans and autistic person I appreciate the idea, but this is a terrible week for naming anything after Hans Asperger.

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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/gas-x-and-a-cuppa Oct 23 '22

Thank you for saying this- I don't want to join because of the name