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  • TerdFerguson@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldThe GOAT
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    2 days ago

    I mean it wasn’t meant seriously, but I can understand why you might take it that way.

    (we decided as a group that we didn’t like having our mental status named after the Nazi scumbag that tortured us to come up with our diagnosis)

    I’ll digress from the post a bit here… I can appreciate what you’re saying, but this is a wild distortion of what occurred to reclassify Asperger’s Syndrome as ASDL1. This is not what happened or why it was done, and there is no credible evidence that Hans Asperger himself was a Nazi or that he tortured anyone.

    Again, I appreciate where you are coming from. This story, although many people believe it, is not at all correct. But yes, his work to understand and determine the nuances of autism was used by Nazis to determine who would be killed and who wouldn’t. He did cooperate with them, but whether he doomed a group of people or saved another one in that situation is a matter of perspective.

    And I personally don’t think we should change the names of the things that might be rooted in darker history, regardless of the actual events, well-understood or not. Not simply for the sake of it (again, that’s not why it was done in this case). That begs us to forget things that need to not be forgotten. Maybe part of why we find ourselvse repeationg our mistakes as humans.

    Speaking, of course, as an autistic person myself.












  • I do not like the term AuDHD.

    I don’t mind if that’s how you want to refer to yourself or anything, but I think it adds noise when you try to socialize the concepts of autism or ADHD to the layperson.

    It’s an example where we’ve oversubscribed to labelling, to have a category for both when the word ‘both’ will do just as well. And you could say that it’s just because of the high comorbidity of the conditions and, for sure, that’s what it is… but regular folks still trying to adjust their idea of autism a bit to just include Asperger’s and having a hard time figuring that out.

    And so I think it undermines efforts to advance cultural acceptance.



  • Yep.

    It really becomes important not to value the opinions of others when you are different and outcast. Selectively, if you can manage that, but universally if you can’t.

    It helps that these folks operate on a lower standard of behaviour in how they treat others. It helps to understand they do these things to push down their own insecurities and to feed their ego. You can decide not to value the opinions of those who aren’t worthy of judging you and you shouldn’t try to appease them or put your energy into trying to control how they behave.

    Put energy into learning how to properly not care.