On autisphobic slurs
Please, don’t call me exceptional or special, even don’t you dare do this to other autistic people, neurodivergent people or psychodivergent people. By the way, even don’t you dare do this to people with neurological or psychological/psychiatric disorders.
For or you understand we are neurodivergent and our neurological divergence is not a pathology, and then you stop thinking we are sick and irrational, as you do now indeed, it is so that calling us “special” or “exceptional” is just an euphemism; or you admit you indeed do not consider us special, or exceptional, but sick and irrational. If you really thought of us as exceptional and special, you would not cry when you discover we are autistic. Families would not mourn. You would not try to cure us. You would not get sad by seeing us stiming or manifesting our neurological divergence.
If someone has a neurological or psychiatric/psychological disorder, don’t try using an euphemism, neither even use ofensive words or objectifying words. Admit it is a neurological or mental disease, nobody is called special by having diabetes, or having a disorder in the tyreoid gland and so forth.
Neither compare between ourselves. “Oh, but Mx. so and so is not that autistic, they do X, Y, Z”. First of all, it’s often just your mediocre understanding on autism as well as about the person under consideration, such that you don’t see all their autistic traits neither you see all the needs and dificulties this person has. Second point is that it is stablishing a pathologizing hierarchy in which autism is seen as derogatory, and then one struggles to show how the person is far from nonverbal autism, and here a misunderstanding about noverbal autistic folks is at stake, who are called severe autistic people (the only righteously called homo autisticus severus is Severus Snape) and portrayed as irrational and sick.
Accept there is intellectual diversity, intellectual divergence, intellectual counterhegemony, neurodiversity, neurodivergence, neurological counterhegemony.
There’s no need being neurotypical in order to be rational, there’s no need to be allist in order to be rational, there’s no need not being non verbal to be rational, since thoughts’ logos, thoughts’ ratio, is not exclusively and necessairly linguistic, but rather it is the pure logical structure of concepts, which is perfectly apprehensible in the order of nonverbal thinking. Here we need to keep in mind Scholastic philosophers’ verbum mentis.Â
