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Happy Autistic Pride Day!

Ausomely Autistic

Hello fellow autistic people! Today is the day (among every other day) to celebrate your autistic identity!

How will you celebrate? Are you proud to be autistic? If so, why?

 I am definitely proud to be autistic for numerous reasons but I shall list my top 3:

  1. I love the intensity with which I feel everything, it makes me a very passionate person.
  2. I love the way I make people laugh with my honesty and literal thinking.
  3.  I love the fact that being autistic means I belong to this Ausome Autistic community!
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  • I hate 'pride' whatevers .... they are (deliberately) a mechanism to split people apart by identities and maximize differences to create the maximum of division in society.  Those pushing it can then claim to be the saviors of those groups, when they are actually victimizing those groups.

    Emphasis should always be on our shared humanity, not 'pride' in immutable characteristics.

    Recognition, yes, acceptance, yes ... 'pride' no thanks.

  • in reply to Touay
    Touay said:
    I hate 'pride' whatevers .... they are (deliberately) a mechanism to split people apart by identities and maximize differences to create the maximum of division in society.  Those pushing it can then claim to be the saviors of those groups, when they are actually victimizing those groups.

    Sorry you feel this way. I didn’t mean to cause any offence. Autistic Pride Day is just about celebrating who we are as autistic people. 

  • in reply to Ausomely Autistic

    Sorry AA, I wasn't offended by you.  I am offended by the manipulation of groups such as us by those with ill-intent. Sorry, 'pride' events are not created to celebrate people, they are specifically designed to segregate people.  

    Perhaps think of it like this, if 'pride' in immutable characteristics is OK, why is gay pride ok but white pride evil?  the pride mechanism is a tool to pick certain groups to be used by others in order to gain power. You were sold a lie by bad people. ... just think about the type of people who were big into 'pride' of a certain ethnic group in 1930s germany and what that meant for those not in that group.

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  • in reply to Ausomely Autistic

    Sorry AA, I wasn't offended by you.  I am offended by the manipulation of groups such as us by those with ill-intent. Sorry, 'pride' events are not created to celebrate people, they are specifically designed to segregate people.  

    Perhaps think of it like this, if 'pride' in immutable characteristics is OK, why is gay pride ok but white pride evil?  the pride mechanism is a tool to pick certain groups to be used by others in order to gain power. You were sold a lie by bad people. ... just think about the type of people who were big into 'pride' of a certain ethnic group in 1930s germany and what that meant for those not in that group.

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  • in reply to Touay

    Your comparison between pride events for a community that have been treated as less than second class citizens and KKK/Nazi rallies is just awful. 

    If you're a British adult, you grew up in a country where it was basically illegal to teach anything to do with LGBT people in schools. If you're older, you might have been born in a country where gay sex was still a criminal act. Either way, LGBT people have been and still are overwhelmingly more likely to be on the end of violence of abuse because of who they are. Pride events are important because otherwise we have the previous situation where everyone has to basically deny who they are publicly to make the straight majority happy. That might work for you, but not so much for the millions of people being oppressed so you don't have to face that LGBT people have just as much right to be who they are as you do.