Time for Autism Rights!

[Leader of the Zakonistians]

Let's fight for the quiet people of our world. Together they will be strong! Together they will prevail! Together we fight! Who's with me???

[Hathaway]

WarHeRo님이 먼저 게시:

:D님이 먼저 게시:

What rights do autistic people not have?

the right to be considered normal, thats what OP said

The entire point is it is not normal.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Leader of the Zakonistians님이 먼저 게시:

Let's fight for the quiet people of our world. Together they will be strong! Together they will prevail! Together we fight! Who's with me???

How can they be strong if other people have to fight for them?

[Stranger]

The Right is already really good about autistic signaling. The left often comes off condescending and judgemental.

[Magma Dragoon]

I will swear fealty to the first political movement to offer me autistic patronage benefits.

[Adversary]

…Autistic people already have the same rights as everyone else. And as someone who is indeed on the spectrum - the part that Asperger's used to occupy until revisions to the DSM occurred to appease both pharmaceutical companies and political activists - I'd rather not get special treatment solely on the basis of what I was born with.

If anything I'd rather just focus more on adapting to living in a world which was not made for people like me. Instead of demanding that others walk on eggshells and treat me like some god-king man-child, I'd rather they just treat me like they do anyone else.

Course that's just my opinion. Don't like it? Well, that's on you. Ergo that's a whole lot of not my problem.

[kilésengati]

As long as it remains recognised as a disability and not a "lifestyle" or "culture", as some idiots suggest, the people with autism already have decent rights, as long as the country they live in recognise disabled people as a minority that needs extra rights for special protection - most of the Western world.

Triple G님이 먼저 게시:

davidb11님이 먼저 게시:

I mean, I have Autism, so I can assure you, we would be terrible for the most part at being Bureaucrats.

Bureaucracy is like a computer program, and the people act like it. It´s usually straight forward programming - not much complexity involved. The complex part is the same as in programming - when You just have more code. And oftentimes laws which contradict themselves. A computer program would crash, and would require bugfixing, but in bureaucracy You can just say that it works fine as has to be that way - and then You give a weird explanation for it, and if the people don´t find it convincing enough You say that they have to pay a fee, or go into prison - or You simply say that You don´t want to discuss it, because the people can go 10 years to the court with it, if they think it´s unfair or doesn´t make sense...

No, unlike a computer program, bureaucracy usually makes no sense and goes against logic. You need to be brain dead (or at least know how to turn off your brain for the meantime) to survive bureaucracy.
Not to say there are no autistic people that like it, but many would be miserable with such a job.
If they do like it however, beg the gods for mercy.

[Kapitein Gnapmans]

Somebody already even made "Autistic pride" into a thing somewhere. No thanks. I wasn't against pride in the first place but it has gone way too far now and I will not be associated with any of that.