Published on 12, July, 2020
I can't stand stereotypes and do not wish to be defined by my condition. I would rather people saw me as an individual with strengths and weaknesses, some of which can be explained by me having Asperger's syndrome, rather than defining me by a label. This is why I can't stand the word 'aspie'. While having Aspergers is an important part of my identity, it is no more important than me being female, no more important than my sexuality or my age. I would hate it if someone did not see past me being a woman or past my age, why is having aspergers any different? The disability movement campaigned for disability to be seen not as an individual affliction or difference, to move beyond individualising disability and to see it as a societal problem: people with disabilities should campaign collectively to change society, making it imperative to see the person before the disability. I am a person with asperger's syndrome, not an aspie. I share traits that other people with AS may have, but I don't share all the traits, just enough to have aspergers. We are all different, to say I am an aspie suggests conformity with other 'aspies' and obliterates the part of me that defies easy categorization.
Hope said:I am an atheist but I believe all humans and animals have intrinsic worth because sentient matter has feelings, feels pain, feels satisfaction, have a RIGHT to exist. Do you believe we have a right to exist? I assume you do, because not to believe this suggests moral bankruptsy and cynicism
I am an atheist but I believe all humans and animals have intrinsic worth because sentient matter has feelings, feels pain, feels satisfaction, have a RIGHT to exist. Do you believe we have a right to exist? I assume you do, because not to believe this suggests moral bankruptsy and cynicism
I am also an Atheist. However I don't think humans have any right to exist. I would like to believe we do, however I see us an animal that will be here for a very small amout of geographic time and will become extinct through the process of evolution. Secondly right's can be taken away very easily. George Carlin expresses this well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWiBt-pqp0E
I am cynical tho, but I don't see that as a bad thing. I am certainly more moral than most people I know. I doo view the modern world as being morally bankrupt, too easily corruptable. I am partially nihilistic, but I see a lot of my thought in Max Stirner.