Pronouns Understanding

Hello Everyone

I am not sure if I am venting out or in SERIOUS need of advice!

Here in the twenty-first century, we are lucky to be a community that is constantly connected (here aren't we all?:))  But for the last few years, people have started to use pronouns to present themselves, in the gender that they please. And I thought: "That's great! People get to choose what they want, be open to a community, not be offended, feel free, and perhaps worst cases not feel accepted but at the very least like themselves! What could go wrong?" I thought 

Until my family came along...

Do you know in "An Inspector Calls"? "We tend to have a great influence on the youngest generation"? Or something close to that. That's basically how I feel.

My family, parents and siblings, all agree that pronouns are dangerous. And with the arguments that they bring it's difficult not to agree. The psychological effect on the youngest, the dangers to females, the censorship of some words, the audacity that some Woke (not all, I know please, it's example) believe that white people owe to the black, Asians and other races for generations of discrimination and must (you guess) pay to be repented for their ancestors' sins. (*shakes head uncomfortably) That sounds like a cult at this point. Or if we have to go back on the subject: the pressure that is put at work to create a "diversity-free" environment actually closes other people to say: "No, I don't agree." Because if you do: You're racist! So there is no choice!

When you hear that, every day, every time your sibling calls and describes how the choice of a little girl deciding to use the pronouns "cat", and so the little girl, believes that she is a cat! Of course, it's worrying, but at the same time, maybe my sibling is making a bit too much of a deal out of this than it should be!

I tried to tell them: "Hey! Can we talk about something else?" because, in all honesty, yes, there are things I agree with them, like the censorship of words, but their constant opinion is destroying my ability to create my own opinion about this whole mess! But no: they must vent out because their daily obligation is driving them crazy! I hate it! Some of you may recognise me because I expressed my discontent about pronouns and the psychological danger I expressed, but to be very honest I DON'T KNOW! This is driving me crazy, I can't talk to them without them seeing positively this whole thing! That it's people's choices and that things can be resolved if we are all careful! I know this is an autistic reserved account... but... PLEASE help me understand in a non-bias way.

(And on that note, I have NO issue with my gender identity!)

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  • Have NT's or Trans people taken this use of preferred pronouns from people with ASD and made it their own ?

    No, 'preferred pronouns' is just a way of saying 'how this person wants to be referred to', so it's something that can apply to anybody. There's a lot more gender diversity among autistic people than NT people but saying (for example) "please use 'they' and 'them' when referring to me" doesn't belong to just one group of people.

  • but we never actually had to tell anyone how we wanted to be referred to before. thats the difference.

    why do we have to now? ... before we just didnt care and allowed people to speak how they want to speak in their own way. hell people called each other "dude" even called women "dude" despite "dude" being a male sounding thing... no one cared. people use language how they want, their own language is their own personal thing, their own personal property. they own their own tongue, their own voice.

    at one point the hyper left wing radical saying was "dont tell me what to do" or say... or think... and yet now we have a complete turn around in which we have a new force claiming to be left wing trying to dictate how you use your own voice, how to speak, how to think. it is getting a bit oppressive and against human rights now.

  • It's literally just people saying 'actually could you please refer to me with these pronouns instead of those ones' like they might say 'oh I usually go by Bob rather than Robert'. Nobody's stopping you from continuing to use the wrong words to describe somebody, they just hope that you won't because it's unnecessarily confrontational to be like 'well I don't agree with your own perception of yourself so I'm going to ignore your wishes'.

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  • It's literally just people saying 'actually could you please refer to me with these pronouns instead of those ones' like they might say 'oh I usually go by Bob rather than Robert'. Nobody's stopping you from continuing to use the wrong words to describe somebody, they just hope that you won't because it's unnecessarily confrontational to be like 'well I don't agree with your own perception of yourself so I'm going to ignore your wishes'.

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