Hey full offense but if you use “autistic” as an insult you can go right ahead and unfollow me right now lol

In addition, also full offense, if you use “retarded” as an insult, then unfollow me immediately

Reminder that “tard” and all variations of it (“fucktard,” “libtard,” etc) are literally just a “PC” way of calling someone a r*t*rd and I’d really appreciate it if my mutuals stopped putting words like that on my dashboard.

I had to get schooled on this one myself a while back; I’d mistakenly assumed it was meant to evoke “bastard”. But nope!

As ever, we learn better, we do better.

The same is true for the ‘reeeeeee’ noise.

^Important addition

Most of the people who say these things absolutely know what they mean, and choose to say them anyway. On the off chance that someone truly does not know what they mean, here’s your chance to learn and do better.

it’s making fun of meltdowns! its formally called “autistic screeching”, its a stereotype made to mock us and its absolutely offensive 💞💞

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“Autistic” shouldn’t be an insult. There are people I’ve suspected to be autistic but I’m too afraid to tell them because they may be insulted since “autistic” has a long history of being an insult. Also because we’ve been conditioned into believing that autism is something to be ashamed of.

Tumblr users: We support autistic people!

Tumblr users: Unironically liking any media is cringe oh my god stop having such Weird interests you fucking freaks why can't you just like things like a normal fucking human being oh my god lmao why do you cringe freaks all type so fucking Weird oh my god why do you care so much about this insignificant thing you crazy freaks like oh my god freak go outside just be a normal fucking person you freaks

it’s not cool or funny 🌈

A sincere fuck you to anyone who is using autistic as an insult

(Anti-kink, radfems, queerphobes, aphobes don’t interact.)

you can’t disconnect words like “moron”, “idiot”, and “dumb” from their original meanings. they are ableist words. and continuing to use them in a derogatory fashion is ableist. 

calling someone a “moron” is comparing them to someone who is disabled, usually someone with an intellectual or learning disability. so if that’s used in a derogatory way, you are saying that the disabled person is worthless, or whatever other word you would use instead of “moron”. even if the person you’re directing the word to is abled themselves. 

comparing abled people to disabled people as a joke, or as a method of bullying is ableist. end of. 

And you can’t argue that the meaning has been confused over time. These words have always been ableist.

Moron meant someone who was intellectually disabled. This was a medical term. It’s root word means “foolish”.

Idiot was a medical term for some who was intellectually disabled. It’s root word means “ignorant”.

Dumb was a medical term for people who couldn’t speak. It’s root word means “stupid”.

These were always ableist. They are not misconstrued. They came from abled people making assumptions about disabled people.

Add “imbecile” and “cretin” to those ableist words too, they were also used to describe intellectually / developmentally disabled people.

Also, “smooth brained” is a gross insult because there is a condition called lissencephaly where someone’s brain comes out smooth instead of with folds and they’re often multiply disabled. People have said this word is intended to compare someone to a lesser evolved animal with a smooth brain, but I don’t buy it. It’s too close to the idea that intellectually / developmentally disabled people are “lesser evolved” and that’s crap.

It’s so easy to tell someone they should stop thinking with the shit in their rectum or tell them their behavior is bullshit without ableist insults if people make the effort to replace the language they use.

But ableism is so baked into our language. I’ve taken many steps to extract it from my own vernacular.

Don’t use disabilities as insults. Don’t use disabilities as insults. Don’t use disabilities as insults. Don’t use disabilities as insults.

autism problem #1264

Having to inform literal adults that it’s not cool or funny to use autistic to mean stupid.

Alright so I’m about to go off.

Recently I was talking to one of my friends about this teacher she has, and she said (and I quote), “He talks to me like I’m autistic or smthn”. And this isn’t the first time she’s said things like this either. I’ve asked her not to say these things before, and her response was basically, “You’ll have to excuse me”. Not “Sorry I’ll stop,” and not even “I’ll try to do better”. It was an “I’m gonna keep doing it and you’ll just have to deal”. And like honestly they’re such obviously offensive things to say, so I don’t know why she says them. It should be common knowledge that you don’t use those words, even (especially) as a joke, whether it be autist, autism, or the R-word.

I absolutely hate the fact that the word autistic has come to have such negative connotations. I hate that it has become synonymous to stupid. Because it’s not. Autistic people are just the same as allistic people in the sense that, hey, maybe you weren’t aware of this, but we have feelings. We have interests and we have brains and we know what you’re saying about us. So stop. Stop using our condition as a joke. We aren’t. We aren’t your free entertainment. We aren’t a punchline. We are human beings and we deserve respect.

I’ve grown up being ashamed of my autism. I’ve grown up wanting to hide it from everyone, being petrified of what might happen should anyone ever find out. I’ve grown up hiding it, because if I tell people, then I’ll be the one they poke fun at, the one they whisper about and call “special” when they think no one is listening.

I shouldn’t have to hide! I shouldn’t feel like I won’t be accepted for who I am. I shouldn’t have to listen to people making jokes about a part of my identity. I shouldn’t have to push down my anger or my hurt because people think it’s funny to use autism as a joke.

So how about we change that? How about we stop abusing people on the spectrum and start treating them like actual human beings? How about we stop using autism as a joke, and start respecting people?

autism jokes aren’t funny

autism jokes aren’t funny

autism jokes aren’t funny

autism jokes aren’t funny

autism jokes aren’t funny

autism jokes aren’t funny

autism jokes aren’t funny

autism jokes aren’t funny

fuck your ableist humour

it’s not cool or funny 🌈

Ari Ne’eman, quoted in Ari Paul’s “The Chapo Dilemma,” Souciant (x)

Don’t use disabilities as insults. Don’t use disabilities as insults. Don’t use disabilities as insults. Don’t use disabilities as insults.

So there is something that I’ve noticed about the autistic community here and the neurodiversity movement in general: that the people on the outside looking in have a lot of misconceptions about us.

One thing I see mentioned a lot is that “The neurodiversity movement makes autism look quirky and cute and ignores all the bad parts and suffering that autistic people experience!”

My opinion? No, it really doesn’t. Also this is really just an ableist talking point and a concern troll argument.

We, as autistic people, know what it’s like to suffer because of our autistic symptoms. We know what it’s like to have meltdowns, or to be in pain or discomfort because of sensory difficulties.

We’re not trying to just look uwu quirky and cutesy and unique and special, or to present autism in this way. Maybe we just want to feel a sense of positivity and pride and identity about something that’s part of us, and to feel accepted. And what’s wrong with that?

And of course we’re aware of and recognise the difficulties of autistic life. What we’re really tired of is just being reduced to poor suffering victims because of our condition. Yes, we recognise the difficulties of autism, but we don’t want to be seen purely as victims who suffer all the time because of it. We want to be allowed to feel proud and talk about the good parts as well. That’s all.

So to sum this up: Yes, we do recognise the struggles of autistic life - we experience them every day - but let us see ourselves and our condition in a more positive or neutral light instead of a) trying to reduce us to victims who need to be cured, or b) trying to imply that we shouldn’t be so positive about autism and should see it in a more negative light.

It really sickens me.