something i’ve been noticing more and more, and which i am feeling increasingly uneasy about, is how neurodivergent folks roughly on the left routinely assign virtue to neurodivergence and especially autism.
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something i’ve been noticing more and more, and which i am feeling increasingly uneasy about, is how neurodivergent folks roughly on the left routinely assign virtue to neurodivergence and especially autism.
@jepyang yeah it is a morally neutral thing, in and of itself. there are, like... ways that people relate to their neurology that may be good, but there are ways that are bad, too.
we've long noticed a kind of undercurrent of what we can only call autism-supremacy rhetoric, which doesn't really get much traction at all in queer circles, but we can see how it could, so we think it needs to be actively opposed.
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like “neurotypicals hate when i [do leftist thing], but yknow i got that justice hypersensitivity”
@jepyang it’s not like a person’s sense of justice and fairness is shaped by the culture they live in, and so could just as easily bend towards horrid things…no, that is definitely not a thing we have seen play out over and over again.
If there’s literally millions of any person with a condition or identity, there’s going to be some shitheads. Comes with being a human among other humans.
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like, if you take rigid thinking and love of rules, combine it with complex trauma from being part of an oppressed class (and in particular an oppressed class that often goes undiagnosed for decades), and sprinkle in some neurodivergent emotional dysregulation, it’s not hard to imagine the result is gonna look like “having an outsized reaction when people are mistreated in ways that aren’t usually or shouldn’t be allowed.” (2/2)
@jepyang i think some of what is described as “justice sensitivity” can also be due to misunderstanding social hierarchy and being very driven by ideals and rules.
it goes without saying that what autistic people internalize as “rules” to live by can be bad in a myriad of ways.
and the hierarchy thing can make autistic people have no fear about speaking up about someone they see as breaking those rules, even if it’s about someone with more social power than them or done in an inappropriate social context
this can look like noble behavior under some circumstances, but it can also look like acting like a snitch or a cop under others.
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@jepyang it’s not like a person’s sense of justice and fairness is shaped by the culture they live in, and so could just as easily bend towards horrid things…no, that is definitely not a thing we have seen play out over and over again.
If there’s literally millions of any person with a condition or identity, there’s going to be some shitheads. Comes with being a human among other humans.
@jepyang on the flipside, we ADHD brains make better anarchists…after all, we can’t even govern our own executive function! /s
Honestly, if a neurodivergent person isn’t queer, the chances that they have good politics isn’t any better than their background society in my experience. The only reason I know so many neurodivergent folks in activism is because they are also queer and frequently BIPOC, so they come to their politics through surviving multiple axes of structural violence.
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@Mage_of_Chaos hi there, comments like this one are actually the exact problem i’m talking about. what exactly makes you think that screaming at a random stranger (with whom you have never previously interacted) makes you morally superior to anyone? you’re actually just being kind of a huge jerk.
ps: i’m autistic
@jepyang you are so good at handling this shit, damn
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@Mage_of_Chaos hi there, comments like this one are actually the exact problem i’m talking about. what exactly makes you think that screaming at a random stranger (with whom you have never previously interacted) makes you morally superior to anyone? you’re actually just being kind of a huge jerk.
ps: i’m autistic
@jepyang p.s. I am a peer. They are totally a dick, you didn't mention that incident as the scenerio, & you seemed to be attacking people with autism so I made an observation about your vague description of the conflict.
I didn't make a problematic comment & will not apologise for my response because the vague statement you made absolutely did NOT entail that you were experiencing unprovoked shouting from a stranger.
You only said being autistic doesn't garuntee superiority in political views. -
@jepyang you are so good at handling this shit, damn
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R relay@relay.infosec.exchange shared this topic
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@Mage_of_Chaos so to recap:
- you were seemingly aware your response was not appropriate
- you apparently agreed with my sentiment
- you decided to scream at me anyway, including cruel name-calling and incorrect assumptions about my neurotypeso what was the point? just having a shit day and wanted to scream at someone else till they’re having a shit day too?
you gonna take accountability for being a douchebag here, or is that something only your autistic family members do?
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@Mage_of_Chaos hi there, comments like this one are actually the exact problem i’m talking about. what exactly makes you think that screaming at a random stranger (with whom you have never previously interacted) makes you morally superior to anyone? you’re actually just being kind of a huge jerk.
ps: i’m autistic
@jepyang @Mage_of_Chaos "God-dayum that's a shallow, eugenics lite dogshit take to a perfectly normal statement about avoiding the pitfall of confusing our own sense of justice with what is "right", who could have possib- oh, yep, mastodon.social account."
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your autism does not guarantee you have good politics
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@jepyang p.s. I am a peer. They are totally a dick, you didn't mention that incident as the scenerio, & you seemed to be attacking people with autism so I made an observation about your vague description of the conflict.
I didn't make a problematic comment & will not apologise for my response because the vague statement you made absolutely did NOT entail that you were experiencing unprovoked shouting from a stranger.
You only said being autistic doesn't garuntee superiority in political views.@Mage_of_Chaos not sure how you missed this, but *you* are the stranger who did the unprovoked yelling. you. there’s no third-party incident being referred to. just you.
you *egregiously* misinterpreted a post of mine, and instead of just moving on, or perhaps checking on your (very poor) assumptions, you jumped directly to screaming hurtful things at me.
i am *not* your peer.
making this explicit: leave me alone, this interaction is unwelcome and beyond repair at this point.
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something i’ve been noticing more and more, and which i am feeling increasingly uneasy about, is how neurodivergent folks roughly on the left routinely assign virtue to neurodivergence and especially autism.
@jepyang it feels a lot like the pop-christian idea that salvation (morality) is a matter of the right beliefs, and your actual deeds have no effect or value
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@jepyang @Mage_of_Chaos "God-dayum that's a shallow, eugenics lite dogshit take to a perfectly normal statement about avoiding the pitfall of confusing our own sense of justice with what is "right", who could have possib- oh, yep, mastodon.social account."
@Thatonepersonwithaface wtf are they putting in the water over at dot social
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something i’ve been noticing more and more, and which i am feeling increasingly uneasy about, is how neurodivergent folks roughly on the left routinely assign virtue to neurodivergence and especially autism.
@jepyang i can kind of see how people arrive at this framework, it’s so easy to see how so many people seem to lack any kind of actual moral compass when it comes to how they actually act, and completely contradict the things they say they believe as soon as it suits them, and go “those damn neurotypicals with their lack of justice sensitivity”, but i’ve also seen lots of people embody the other extreme in a bad way and be super dogmatic and unable to even consider that they might be wrong about some things, or that different people might have different perspectives. And while those behaviors do tend to correlate with neurotypicals for the first one and autistic people for the second one, i think those don’t 100% align and there’s often other factors, such as people’s upbringing and environment.
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@jepyang yeah it is a morally neutral thing, in and of itself. there are, like... ways that people relate to their neurology that may be good, but there are ways that are bad, too.
we've long noticed a kind of undercurrent of what we can only call autism-supremacy rhetoric, which doesn't really get much traction at all in queer circles, but we can see how it could, so we think it needs to be actively opposed.
Some trans people think they're morally superior too. "When I use LLMs I do so ethically", that kind of thing.
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Some trans people think they're morally superior too. "When I use LLMs I do so ethically", that kind of thing.
@angelastella @jepyang "us" can be as destructive a word as "them", yeah
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your autism does not guarantee you have good politics
@jepyang gods, so true. Sense of justice doesn't = liberal justice
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@Mage_of_Chaos hi there, comments like this one are actually the exact problem i’m talking about. what exactly makes you think that screaming at a random stranger (with whom you have never previously interacted) makes you morally superior to anyone? you’re actually just being kind of a huge jerk.
ps: i’m autistic
@jepyang good gods, wtf is up with people today?!? Sending 🫂 and energy for all the shit you deal with
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@jepyang It also makes neurotypical morally wrong, either implicitly or explictly. Which is bad to begin with and worse when people equate not having autism with being neurotypical.
