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@ziriuz84 that’s interesting — the US doesn’t use the World Health Organization manual so we have irksome variances

@bardmoss @autistics

@bardmoss from a medical and legal perspective that doesn’t mean anything since everything is a diagnosis

not debating it should be considered just basic human variance but that’s not the world we live in

@autistics

@bardmoss as long as there are legal implications re services and rights, it needs a
classification and that should not be disorder

@autistics

@ariadne rule
of thumb: if Elon says it, 99.9% chance it’s bullshit he made up that will never happen…

…YouTube is filled with videos with the receipts

@nullagent

@manon pretty sure OP didn’t realize i was part of the community

@pathfinder i have no issue with disability as a descriptor, i do not accept or tolerate disorder

@autistics

@hauchvonstaub not sure the OP even realized that they were glossing over the difference which is even more offensive in a way

@autistics

@autistics #ActuallyAutistic recently made the mistake of commenting on an IG post and i took issue with someone calling autism a disorder…

…i was then scolded that the "community" considers disorder and disability to be the same thing…

…i responded that disorder should be replaced with condition since disorder is inherently negative and leads to othering…

…am i alone in thinking disorder is not the same as disability?

@akamran i’ve been striving to normalize everything and make more of us feel seen

@autistics

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i’ll admit it, this was the laugh i needed today…

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@benroyce i'm lucky to live in an open primary state

@roknrol @mikelovesbikes @retech

@punishmenthurts that feels overly generous to their fuckery which i seems all too intentional

@autistics

@punishmenthurts conformity is always forced in all my workplaces

now that i push back on it so much, i’m in the phase of being actively “othered” as a form of retaliation to try to get me back in line

it's not working and some are not happy about that

@autistics

@aisling as Zoom world started a few years ago, i was not so subtly told i had to be on camera for all meetings, since “You need to be able to look people in the eyes during meetings”

@autistics

@coolcalmcollected that happens a lot after i leave a job

phrases like "We had no idea how much you were doing” and “It's just not the same” are frequently said

@autistics

@coolcalmcollected they have discovered over the past few years that i am uniquely suited to the shit show that is my job

i’ve had people try to cover 1/4 of my job while on vacation and they are fried after a week of it

my therapist says “They like what you can do, just not how you do it”

@autistics

@coolcalmcollected this is how i trained my (now year in their tenure) new coworker

few years ago a different co-worker tried to have a meeting with me about "best practices” since she was appalled that i worked in response to how my managers worked (with a lot of personal variance) and not in a uniform way the way her managers did

conformity is just control prettied up

@autistics

@Kierkegaanks oh i do and that is why i’m considered “not sociality acceptable" by the disabled employee group

the ableism is coming from inside the house

@autistics