Comment on It makes me shudder

SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, I describe myself as an autist all the time.

  I am an autistic. I am an autist.

  Its a word that describes what I am.

  If you get bad vibes from it, you have some insrcurities you need to handle.

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• ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In my experience living with an autistic husband and having working with many autistic people, they don’t mind the word at all and use it themselves.

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  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As an autistic person with several autistic family members, friends, and associates, I’ve never met someone who used it or liked it

    Perhaps it’s a US vs UK thing? I’ve only seen US and Canadian people use it, in the same way that I’ve only seen US people use the term “blacks“ when referring to black people

    It has that connotation to me. And the fact that it’s the term of choice to use as an insult in places like 4chan and other edgelord spaces doesn’t help

    Seems like it’s one of those things like “autistic person be ”person with autism“ where there’s no consensus within the community

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    • Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am in the “i dont have autism, i am autism” camp because i consider stereotypical autistic behavior to be “autisms”.

      When neurotypicals start saying “they or everyone also have a little autism” what i understand is they have 1 or 2 autisms but besides those scenarios they are completely within classic norms. The difference then with someone like me is there is no situation in my life where i am not actively experiencing one or more autisms. I have never known anything else and is therefore a core part of my identity.

      This said, i would so much prefer that everyone used the term neurodivergent instead and left the term autism for professional medial diagnosis only.

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve only ever heard the term(?) used by people with whatever aspergers is being called these days. They used it to refer primarily to themselves. It’s only 3 people though.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Aspergers has basically been rolled into Autism Spectrum Disorder.

    More technically, its a more specific sort of set of behaviors/mannerisms/ways of thinking and acting, but, they all fall into the new category of ASD.

    ASD is… a spectrum, of things that are different from the norm, Aspergers is basically a subset within that set, though many other subsets are possible and exist, in different instensities.

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