• Taokan@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I’m just glad they got a power hungry, austistic lunatic in charge now, so everyone can see this is absolutely the end game, before this becomes normalized and people like me get called retarded for not wanting a car that can be remote deactivated.

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      2 months ago

      Autism doesn’t make someone an asshole. Let’s not normalise hatred of neurodivergence

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        To be clear, autism doesn’t make someone an asshole, but autism makes it a lot more apparent when someone is an asshole. Which in the current climate,

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        2 months ago

        Thank you for calling this out. Autistic should not be derogatory!

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        2 months ago

        The user also dropped the R slur. The “people like me” part stands out to me as a little suspect as well.

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        2 months ago

        It doesn’t but a neurodivergent person can absolutely be an arsehole.

        Its not a magic label that makes everything “quirky” and “eccentric”.

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            And i was correcting the misconception that just because someone is neurodivergent doesn’t make them immune to being an arsehole.

            Neurodivergent people are people, with all that entails.

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                2 months ago

                Nobody said autism is bad (in the chain im replying to), but here we are.

                Two statements that never happened with two corrections that aren’t needed apparently.

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                  2 months ago

                  They did say autism was bad. That’s the whole point of the correction. Are you just dead set on being an asshole?

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                    2 months ago

                    The entire post was :

                    I’m just glad they got a power hungry, austistic lunatic in charge now, so everyone can see this is absolutely the end game, before this becomes normalized and people like me get called retarded for not wanting a car that can be remote deactivated.

                    Point at where the person said autism was bad and i’ll drop it.

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        I see no difference between calling him autistic and calling him narcissistic, except that one of those two mental disorders is one he claims to have a diagnosis for. Let’s fry the bigger fish first and then circle back to autism.