
Yeah I’ll call myself an autist and I have no problem with other autistic people calling themselves that but if someone else called me an autist I would punch them in the throat
It’s a slur, and like other slurs it’s okay for the targeted group to apply it to themselves, it’s not okay to refer to others.
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But we also tend to be very good at doing the work capitalism demands of us. Thats why at 6 years old they pulled me aside in class to give me harder math and say “You should be an engineer” a thousand times.
It’s not even a problem of capitalism, it’s a problem of distribution and not putting autistic people in roles they can perform well.