I’m really tired of high functioning super smart “autism” like ok we all have madeup diagnoses—anyone with a IQ slightly above 90 knows that they can learn the slogans to manipulate gatekeepers to get performance enhancement, and they decide not to if they think theyre performing well enough already. That doesn’t mean “ADHD” describes something in the world. Similarly, there’s this drift of “autism” getting more and more popular. It’s obnoxious because labels and identities are obnoxious, but i only find it repulsive because of the general trend of articulate and charismatic minorities setting agendas that effect the less talkative (and worse off!) fellow minorities https://open.substack.com/pub/jessesingal/p/why-disability-advocates-are-trying?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5hj2m (I only read up to free tier, but I’ve seen a bunch of this stuff).
Maybe neuroscientists or psychologists have good reasons for this, but “autism” is the most immensely deranged word in the history of categories—what utility is a word that crosses absent minded professors and people who can’t conceptually distinguish a week from a month insofar as you can wordlessly elicit conceptual understanding from them???? If you worked at the dictionary factory and you tried to slip that word in, you’d be fired immediately. So why do psychologists or neuroscientists get away with this???
I’m a computer guy. I’m bad at social queues sometimes. I feel at home in lots of sperg culture. But leave me out of your stolen valor campaign. We’re fine, you guys—we’re smart enough to correct for most of the downsides.
Yall, this is a rant. It will be sloppy.
I’m really tired of high functioning super smart “autism” like ok we all have madeup diagnoses—anyone with a IQ slightly above 90 knows that they can learn the slogans to manipulate gatekeepers to get performance enhancement, and they decide not to if they think theyre performing well enough already. That doesn’t mean “ADHD” describes something in the world. Similarly, there’s this drift of “autism” getting more and more popular. It’s obnoxious because labels and identities are obnoxious, but i only find it repulsive because of the general trend of articulate and charismatic minorities setting agendas that effect the less talkative (and worse off!) fellow minorities https://open.substack.com/pub/jessesingal/p/why-disability-advocates-are-trying?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5hj2m (I only read up to free tier, but I’ve seen a bunch of this stuff).
Maybe neuroscientists or psychologists have good reasons for this, but “autism” is the most immensely deranged word in the history of categories—what utility is a word that crosses absent minded professors and people who can’t conceptually distinguish a week from a month insofar as you can wordlessly elicit conceptual understanding from them???? If you worked at the dictionary factory and you tried to slip that word in, you’d be fired immediately. So why do psychologists or neuroscientists get away with this???
I’m a computer guy. I’m bad at social queues sometimes. I feel at home in lots of sperg culture. But leave me out of your stolen valor campaign. We’re fine, you guys—we’re smart enough to correct for most of the downsides.
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-autism-surge-lies-conspiracies