• Suspicious@lemmy.wtf
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        1 year ago

        Neurotypical means they have 0 mental conditions/disorders, allistic just means not autistic

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          Wouldn’t it be aautistic or non-autistic anyway?

          • BOMBS@lemmy.worldM
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            Maybe anautistic because autistic starts with a vowel. Or using the same logic with abnormal, we could say abautistic.

        • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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          100% it’s just an attempt to pathologize being “normal”, the same way some people use “neurodivergent” to mean that suffering from autism, ADHD, or other whatever is just a difference of opinion rather than a life-altering condition.

          • DroneRights [it/its]
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            So let’s just recap - you think that being referred to in a similar way as how you refer to autistic people makes you sound sick. And you find it insulting to be spoken about as if you were the equal of an autistic person?

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            1 year ago

            Allistic and neueotypical don’t mean the same. You can be allistic and still be neurodivergent.

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              1 year ago

              I agree. My comment was more a humorous play with words trying to be paradoxical.

    • Moneo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Also who the fuck is calling autistic people too sensitive? This image is like victim fetishizing.

      • BOMBS@lemmy.worldM
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        I don’t know about all autistic people, but over 75% of the people I’ve had a considerable relationship with have called me too sensitive at some point. It’s one of the hallmarks of being me: waiting for the moment someone calls me too sensitive. The other is being called an asshole because I apparently made some implication I was completely unaware of.

        • whatwhatwutyut@midwest.social
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          Same. This is exactly what happens to me. Along with letting someone know at the beginning of a friendship that “hey sometimes people perceive me as an asshole or overly sensitive” and getting “oh I don’t think you seem like that at all” only for them to tell me I’m an asshole or sensitive months later… and I don’t feel like I’ve changed how I act at all in that time

    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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      First time ive heard it. I genuinely dont mind it. Its a bit odd but its fun.

      Is it pronounced or-listic or al-istic?

    • clara@feddit.uk
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      you’re entirely right. allistic is silly. i think it’s slightly worse than silly though. i have two takes on this.

      my first take is that you shouldn’t slur people.

      my second is that if you’re gonna slur someone anyway, don’t be a chicken; just slur them. hiding behind “allistic” is a little bit like hiding behind “youths”, or “fruity”, or “welfare scroungers”, or “special”, or when people do that thing where they go “…she… oh sorry i mean he” (and vice-versa). it’s either a dogwhistle, or dogwhislte-adjacent. we all know what the speaker is implying when they uses these terms. you’re just slurring someone without the confidence necessary to do so.

      this is why i unironically use normie (on the internet). sometimes i want to be rude about it, y’know? am in the wrong to slur like this? yes, absolutely. whilst i might use normie in the context of venting, it still doesn’t make it right. but at least i’m not being a coward about my position by hiding behind “allistic”

      sometimes, especially when i’m chatting amongst autistics, it’s easier to casually write “when normies do x it upsets me, how about you?” instead of writing formal prose like “Oh I must say! These dastardly Neurotypicals have a particular behaviour pattern that troubles my mind… Do tell me how you bear the burden of such travesties.”.

      doing the formal thing is tiring, and sometimes i don’t want to be the better person. 😎👍

    • Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works
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      Also how are any of these things autistic traits? I’m sitting here chewing my tongue raw for the last 5 years and haven’t gone outside since, have no interest in socialization and have misphonia yet watch asmr. I’m not autistic.

      • Fog0555@lemmy.world
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        How do you know you’re not autistic vs undiagnosed vs misdiagnosed vs the definition of autistic is too vague?