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A community for respectful discussion and memes related to autism acceptance. All neurotypes are welcome.

We have created our own instance! Visit Autism Place the following community for more info.

Community:

Values

Acceptance
Openness
Understanding
Equality
Reciprocity
Mutuality
Love

Rules

No abusive, derogatory, or offensive post/comments e.g: racism, sexism, religious hatred, homophobia, gatekeeping, trolling.
Posts must be related to autism, off-topic discussions happen in the matrix chat.
Your posts must include a text body. It doesn't have to be long, it just needs to be descriptive.
Do not request donations.
Be respectful in discussions.
Do not post misinformation.
Mark NSFW content accordingly.
Do not promote Autism Speaks.
General Lemmy World rules.

Encouraged

Open acceptance of all autism levels as a respectable neurotype.
Funny memes.
Respectful venting.
Describe posts of pictures/memes using text in the body for our visually impaired users.
Welcoming and accepting attitudes.
Questions regarding autism.
Questions on confusing situations.
Seeking and sharing support.
Engagement in our community's values.
Expressing a difference of opinion without directly insulting another user.
Please report questionable posts and let the mods deal with it. Chat Room

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Be yourself and be true to who you are. Don't let neurotypical conditioning define your identity. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (6 children)

How alone am I in disliking the word "allistic"? To me it feels like an outgrowth of a persecution fetish, literally defining an outgroup. Especially since it has zero mainstream adoption, where "non-autistic" is immediately clear to anyone.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kinda burying the lede here. They are all different forms of “questioning their authority”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I dont agree it's about authority at all. This entire list is about showing disrespect for someone and expecting them to be OK with it.

To allistic people, everything on this list is insulting behavior that will offend them (except not wanting to eat certain foods).

This behavior will work fine with autistic people though. But you can't expect it to work with allistic people.

Different brains equals different expectations of what is acceptable social behavior. That's it.