Happy Autistic Pride Day!

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.

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • Could you provide some evidence of what you say here please.
    Again, if you want to apologies for the abusive insinuation, maybe we can have an sensible discussion, but if your position is nothing more than, "agree with me or your a bigot" ... you are not someone open to reason.



    You are moving the goal posts by false accusation to dodge the responsibility of backing up your claims, Debbie was perfectly polite when she pointed out the burden of proof to you, if you don't have proof just admit it then there is "no harm no foul" you expended so much energy dodging a reasonable request when you could have just provided proof. There is no need to double down being nasty trying to gaslight her about her intentions, falsely claiming someone is being abusive when they are actually being quite reasonable, ironically, is actually abusive.
    Also this isn't the first time you have said something hateful to derail someone elses thread and done this verbal dance, so it's not like you can hide your intent through double speak with those of us who were there and remember it.
    Change starts with you, if you don't like people being "divisive" then you should work on being less divisive yourself. Our words are not unkind simply because you dislike what we have to say.

  • I simply asked you to substantiate your comments.

    NO, that is not what you 'simply' asked, is it?

    Otherwise, it's you who is demonstrating hate, with no substantiation.

    IS IT?

    Again, if you want to apologies for the abusive insinuation, maybe we can have an sensible discussion, but if your position is nothing more than, "agree with me or your a bigot" ... you are not someone open to reason.

  • I do not submit to that form of social coercion and abuse
    you are simply going to make abusive false accusations ... this is how you can know you are in an abusive cult.

    I simply asked you to substantiate your comments.

    The above reaction looks like projection to me.

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  • Could you provide some evidence of what you say here please.
    Again, if you want to apologies for the abusive insinuation, maybe we can have an sensible discussion, but if your position is nothing more than, "agree with me or your a bigot" ... you are not someone open to reason.



    You are moving the goal posts by false accusation to dodge the responsibility of backing up your claims, Debbie was perfectly polite when she pointed out the burden of proof to you, if you don't have proof just admit it then there is "no harm no foul" you expended so much energy dodging a reasonable request when you could have just provided proof. There is no need to double down being nasty trying to gaslight her about her intentions, falsely claiming someone is being abusive when they are actually being quite reasonable, ironically, is actually abusive.
    Also this isn't the first time you have said something hateful to derail someone elses thread and done this verbal dance, so it's not like you can hide your intent through double speak with those of us who were there and remember it.
    Change starts with you, if you don't like people being "divisive" then you should work on being less divisive yourself. Our words are not unkind simply because you dislike what we have to say.

  • I simply asked you to substantiate your comments.

    NO, that is not what you 'simply' asked, is it?

    Otherwise, it's you who is demonstrating hate, with no substantiation.

    IS IT?

    Again, if you want to apologies for the abusive insinuation, maybe we can have an sensible discussion, but if your position is nothing more than, "agree with me or your a bigot" ... you are not someone open to reason.