Someone on Mastodon shared this link with me, and I thought you might find it as interesting as I do.
I really hate the misconception of the spectrum. It enables nasty people like Ellen degeneres to justify being a bully (in case you missed it, she tried to get diagnosed autistic. When that didn’t work, she said, well it’s a spectrum so we’re all a little autistic, so I’m not a bully). And enables others to dismiss our struggles, cos hey, we’re all on the spectrum!
Back to the article, I feel like I’m a mix of the three examples. I can see some that match from each example. How about you? When I stop feeling so lazy, I might do my own custom one.
Ellen might be Autistic, she might not. I’ve never met Ellen so I wouldn’t really know. As it turns out you can be Autistic while still being a shitty person. It feels very weird to gatekeep being Autistic. She’s totally wrong about everyone being Autistic but I do think Autism is more common than many people want to admit.
She said she got tested and she wasn’t (she said she has an ADHD diagnosis).
It’s not so much whether she’s ND, it was the way she invalidated the autistic community’s struggles with that dumb take. You can’t bully people and then try to excuse it by saying, we’re all on the spectrum, I was just playing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh48IlFkyic
Relevant part at 16mins.
B**** literally traumatises people by forcing their phobia on them, humiliates people on air, forces people to disclose pregnancies, and that’s just the stuff we’ve seen in public. That’s not autism, that’s sadism. No contrition, no admission that she was in the wrong. And her trying to get an autism diagnosis to excuse that really ticks me off.