• Comment105@lemm.ee
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    I bid that non autistic people be named and categorized in a way that highlights their subtly hostile, backstabbing, cruel nature. You know, the common household “psychopath” who doesn’t actually meet the requirements for real psychopathy, but is still pathologically a dickish cynic playing a social game for minor wins in wealth and status, instead of simply being a friendly and polite contributor to society.

    They named us.

    Maybe we should name them.

    Describe the traits that define them. Go into detail about what exactly is so wrong with them. Why they kill rally for warmongers. Why they sabotage eachother. Why they face obvious long term problems with such oblivious nonchalance.

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      I bid that non autistic people be named and categorized in a way that highlights their subtly hostile, backstabbing, cruel nature

      Are you sure you’re “autistic”? Are you sure you’re not just a fucking asshole?

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        I don’t doubt they’re autistic.

        I also don’t understand why you think they’re an asshole. Allistic people often do act like low tier psychopaths: manipulative, selfish, overconfident and hypocritical.

        It’s just that they do this in ways they don’t perceive, such that they don’t recognize it until it crosses a more extreme threshold.

        Here’s a … perhaps more palatable version of the same idea:

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cZiR4o6j4HY&pp=ygUyd2hhdCBhbGxpc3RpYyBwZW9wbGUgc291bmQgbGlrZSB0byBhdXRpc3RpYyBwZW9wbGU%3D

        And if you’d like to know more:

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ugQEiZG19Rs&pp=ygU_d2hhdCBpZiBhbGxpc3RpYyBwZW9wbGUgd2VyZSBwYXRob2xvZ2l6ZXMgdGhlIHdheSBhdXRpc3RpY3MgYXJl

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          Allistic people often do act like low tier psychopaths: manipulative, selfish, overconfident and hypocritical.

          All human beings have the capability to act this way, including autistic humans. When you say “well, but these other guys are just like that” that’s when you should suspect you’re being an asshole.

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            Ok so you don’t seem to know much about psychology.

            Sure, in an extremely broad sense, all humans have the capability to act in any way.

            When certain groups of people actually do, repeatedly act in certain ways more often than others do, when its so commonplace to them that other people have to point out that they are behaving that way because they do not even realize it, now you have the beginnings of how to classify people psychologically.

            If we all have the theoretical, idealized capacity to violently assault and murder random animals with no provocation or explanation… super. Great.

            How about the people that actually do that regularly?

            You can’t do any kind if psychological screening or differentiation or descriptors whatsoever if your entire theory is ‘well technically anybody can do anything, so everyone is the same’.

            This is like 11th grade debate club sophistry you’re pushing here.

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              When certain groups of people actually dorepeatedly act in certain ways more often than others do

              But they don’t, and in any case that’s not “psychology.” That’s just you being a bigoted fucking asshole.

              when its so commonplace to them that other people have to point out that they are behaving that way because they do not even realize it

              Isn’t that literally the described experience of being autistic? Having your behavior pointed out to you and you didn’t even realize you were doing it? Constantly?

              How about the people that actually do that regularly?

              Is that something you think is true about neurotypical people? That we’re constantly “assaulting and murdering”?

              How is this not you just being a giant gaping asshole? You can wrap it up in therapy terms if you want but surely you have to see how offensive this is?

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      instead of simply being a friendly and polite contributor to society.

      Do you think allistic people are inherently incapable of doing this earnestly?

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      Words aren’t bad in and of themselves, usually. For one, “psychopath” freely translates to “suffering soul” but you could also do “mind in disease”. Neither sound too insulting, per se, do they?

      You’ll alway have euphemisms and if there’s a difference that can be noted, then usually the people’s who differ from the norm will be called something “bad”.

      Take left-handed people. Sinister. That’s where the word comes from. “Sinister” as in the Latin word for “left”.

      Then we’ll just end up on the

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_treadmill

      Why care about what words someone uses if you know you have better ones yourself? It’s the intent behind the words that most often matters. To neurotypicals, anyway.