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remember what a huge fad autism/asperger's was in the '90s? every weird kid and their dog was suddenly coming to school with a diagnosis, and then it jumped online, and suddenly people were self-diagnosing and proclaiming themselves "autistic" because they had an unusual hobby or whateverit's weird and obnoxious and it was also materially harmful. the thing is, autism is rare. it is also, in most cases, an extremely severe disorder. "high functioning autism" does exist but it's mostly a meme. in many cases absent a cure the only thing a civilized, compassionate society could really do for the victim would be to administer painless and dignified euthanasia to end their horrific and inescapable suffering, but because we're not a civilized society we do everything we can to keep these poor creatures alive and trapped in the hell of their own bodies for as long as possible and forcibly prevent them from even killing themselves, wasting vast amounts of money and resources on each case. it is horrible.quirky people are not autistic. however, there are vastly more quirky people in the world than there are autistic people, and when a significant proportion of them self-declares autistic and is enabled by hapless bystanders, this has an effect on what people perceive autism to be. and suddenly, the low-functioning people who can't speak for themselves are cut out of public and institutional awareness, with only the handful of doctors who actually have to deal with these broken, failed humans aware of their existence. and the deluded quirky people see efforts to cure this horrific disease, and they scream "NO YOU CAN'T TAKE MY SPORK AWAY THIS IS AKTION T4 LITERAL GENOCIDE!!!!" and start sending death threats to scientists working on cures.it's quite obvious to any remotely rational person that none of these mildly quirky people have any kind of neurological disorder (personality disorders, that's another question entirely). and when you've encountered enough of them, you might very rationally conclude that autism doesn't actually exist, and everyone's faking it for attention, and we should just remove the disorder from the DSM because obviously it was a mistake. because you don't spend time in the kind of psych hospitals where autistic patients are confined.and all of that will only make existence (i won't call it life) for the genuinely autistic vastly worsethis is why i'm not very happy about knee-jerk anti-trans reaction. because i'm one of the relatively few people who *does* know normal transexuals, normal people who you probably wouldn't even guess were trans if they hadn't told you because they're indistinguishable from normal men or women, who just live normal lives and want to be happy and have no interest in ruining the lives of normal people. there's even a trans woman writes for RT and is constantly calling out the insane depraved evil shit the tranny movement is doing. but normal people don't see this, don't notice this, they only notice the degenerate trannies who vastly outnumber the handful of legitimate transexuals, for exactly the same reason that self-proclaimed "high-functioning autists" outnumber people with actual autism diagnoses: social contagion.99% of the time i agree with the anti-trans crowd. 99% of the people they want institutionalized or jailed or shot for being psychotic monster pedophile sex freaks or whatever, i'm completely on board. the current situation where demented perverts have taken over the culture and are trying to brainwash children is beyond unacceptable and nobody should ever, ever be able to just declare themselves the opposite sex. actual transexuality is trivially detectable with brain scans, and it's crazy fucking rare, as you would expect of a condition this freakishly maladaptive. there's no material reason for this to be a national issue, there's no reason for ordinary people to even know or care what transexuality is anymore than autism or rare colon cancers. it's an obscure but treatable medical condition, nothing more. anyone who tells you otherwise is nuts and probably wants to rape your kidsbut that 1% includes people i care about and betraying them for the sake of trendy online politics would be subhuman
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@Moon @velartrill this is absolutist black-and-white thinkingmost abnormal human conditions aren't just "on or off" things controlled by one or two SNPs or something; there are gradients, so that of course the most severe cases are also the most rareand also personality disorder == neurological disorder; dualism hurts everyone
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@velartrill it rustles my jimmies that people agitate for autism as "just a different way of thinking" when it's so clearly debilitating.
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@Moon @velartrill and also "bad" people exist throughout every population. but they tend to naturally become definitive of minority groups particularly in the eyes of greater-population because the two abnormalities, "minority" and "bad", become perceptually linked, so that when a normal person is bad you have "that bad person", but when the minority is bad it becomes "that bad trans person"
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@Moon @velartrill of course yes, mmm. in order to treat or prevent a condition, though, you need first to understand it, which requires having an accurate view of the condition
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@shmibs @velartrill debilitating instances can both be a small percentage but a lot of people. I believe denying this harms treatment.
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@Moon @velartrill eh, offending?
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@shmibs @velartrill I apologize for offending you.
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@Moon ah no, i'm not upset! sorry for being overly blunt-responding maybe XX
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@shmibs you seemed upset, maybe I misread.
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@Moon ah gosh yeh, i'm sorry; went into clinical "science mode" for a second there...
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@shmibs I can take it, it just surprised me.
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@Moon @shmibs i had a close friend years ago who had to grow up with a severely autistic brother whose parents were too loving & hippie-minded to have institutionalized for the family's safety. the violence and stress gave her ptsd. people like her have no voice in this whatsoever
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@velartrill @Moon have got such a brother as well here. maybe less severe than what you're referring too, but still plenty of screaming, breaking things, etcin order for most people to recognise that there are more severe cases, though, they first need to realise that differences in severity exist, which black and white thinking doesn't allow. if people think "autism is just one thing" and then inevitably see only mild cases because they're the most common, that's when denial of more severe cases happens
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@shmibs @velartrill I have multiple friends with autistic kids that can't function, which is why it bugs me so much that advocates minimize it.
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