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Oct. 25th, 2015 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyI feel like "person /with/ autism" makes autism sound like a nifty accessory that you can take off. Like a GI Joe's Secret Wrist Communicator or something, when autism is really more like the Cool Karate-Chop Action. It's part of me and it's not going away any time soon.
From here.
From now on, that's definitely how I'm going to refer to autism. "I'm Connie with the Cool Karate-Chop Action. (Actual Cool Karate-Chop Action not included.)
From here.
From now on, that's definitely how I'm going to refer to autism. "I'm Connie with the Cool Karate-Chop Action. (Actual Cool Karate-Chop Action not included.)
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Date: 2015-10-28 06:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-29 01:30 pm (UTC)But then, I always translate "PC" as "having good manners", so... yeah.
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Date: 2015-10-29 05:54 pm (UTC)I had a professor fail my writing on an assignment because I wrote "I am a schizophrenic 25 year old." She circled the "ic" and wrote "25 year old with schizophrenia." I was like "my self image. My identity... I am schizophrenic." She didn't like it very much. She really wanted to make sure I wouldn't refer to my students as "autistic" Which I understand the point of being PC with other people's children. Just I prefer the ic term.
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Date: 2015-10-29 06:41 pm (UTC)