• isles@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    people are starting to use “autistic” in it’s place as an offensive term.

    I must have run in toxic crowds, because “autism” as a derogatory slur was in vogue circa 2005. I never used it, but I had to dismantle a lot of ableism to accept my own diagnosis.