Sweet F.A.
@Meanlucario
Well, as an example, I had spent all my childhood and teenage years referring to myself as a person with Asperger’s syndrome, but then it became problematic to say that and so I had to start saying I have high-functioning autism.
But then people decided I couldn’t say
that, either, so I had to start saying I’m a “person with autism.”
And now I’m hearing that even saying
that is a problem, and I have to say I’m an “autistic person”?
Perhaps I’m reading too deeply into this, but I kind of find it a little moronic that people who
don’t have the condition get to tell me, someone who
does have the condition, how to refer to myself.
I recall reading that something similar happened with American Indians/Native Americans/Indigenous people, where white people kept telling them what to call themselves.