How to talk about autism respectfully

Re:How to talk about autism respectfully by zepto on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:03PM (#29733060)

Re: call out. I think part of the issue is that chiming in to voice support for someone who is arguing on your behalf without adding any content automatically creates a ‘ganging up’ situation, so even if they hadn’t used the phrase “call out”, it would still have been an issue.

Re: engaging with the whole work. The piece as a whole doesn’t contain anything I haven’t seen before in autistic advocacy. I agree with a bunch of it, although it’s hard to get a lot of people to understand the double empathy problem.

So, the parts that are going to be critiqued are the parts that have conceptual issues - e.g. the two cultures problem idea, which is not universally shared amongst autistic people.

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Re:How to talk about autism respectfully by mbilokonsky on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:15PM (#29733119)

For what it's worth, I meant "thank you for pointing out the arguments that I would have otherwise had to do the work of pointing out."

The phrase "call out" isn't a universal dog whistle for bogey men to come drag you to the gulag for wrongthink. Your reaction to it has been exhausting.

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Re:How to talk about autism respectfully by zepto on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:22PM (#29733160)

> The phrase "call out" isn't a universal dog whistle for bogey men to come drag you to the gulag for wrongthink. Your reaction to it has been exhausting.

Once again you are completely out of line with the site guidelines. There is a reason your comments are getting flagged. Please take a look at them. This isn’t twitter. HN has its own culture which you seem not to understand.

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