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Re:Autistics in the Silicon Valley by sdrothrock on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @07:46PM (#8205275)
> Also calling people 'autistic' and later calling people with autism 'it' as in 'try to injure itself' is a really shitty way to talk about human beings. Check yourself.

mamcx is not a native English speaker and was perhaps trying to use "it" as a gender-inspecific pronoun rather than intentionally portraying people on the autistic spectrum as "objects" or "inhuman."

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Re:Autistics in the Silicon Valley by mamcx on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @10:07PM (#8205647)
yep, sorry for the bad choice of words.
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Re:Autistics in the Silicon Valley by sdrothrock on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @10:11PM (#8205653)
No problem.

I think most people will tend to use a plural (they, them) in this kind of situation. People who are pickier about grammar will probably say "he or she" or "him or her."

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