Hi! I’m a much newer user in the forums. I mostly play UU and well I’m a part of the autism spectrum, Asperger’s Syndrome to be precise. I like to view smallet details of a much larger picture, I also am a little more sensitive to textures. I am pretty terrible at being social so I use Pokémon Showdown as kind of an outlet since I’m not great at talking outside of the site. To most people in real life, I just look like an average person walking down the street. Today, I would like to discuss an issue that I’ve seen on the internet and it really bugs me:
Why do people use autism as an insult?
People seem to use autistic or autist as a buzzword for retarded but how exactly did that start? There are many factors that were possibly in play for this to occur:
So yeah just put that in a box there so that you don’t have to scroll down. So anyway if you did click on it and read my factors, I’d like you to put your input in on this. What happened with the internet or was it always like this? I hope that this can be a nice discussion post in the forums
Why do people use autism as an insult?
People seem to use autistic or autist as a buzzword for retarded but how exactly did that start? There are many factors that were possibly in play for this to occur:
1. People got bored with using retarded and decided to use a word that they would assume would be quite similar to it (but it’s not at all).
2. Autism Speaks twisting people’s views on autism. For those who don’t know: Autism Speaks is a charity that are supposedly helping people with this disorder but they treat it like it’s a disease or an epidemic that must be eradicated immediately. They have gotten better, but they already revealed their true intentions so I cannot trust them at all.
This video is a perfect example of how awful their propaganda used to be.
3. The hate crime that has occurred. There has been all sorts of news about parents killing or attempting to murder their own children who were autistic. People are scared of us because they don’t understand us and that’s why they throw jokes like that as such.
4. How the media portrays us as a whole. They only seem to show the lower functioning kids. Yes I’m aware that these people are unfortunately the burdens of society, but the media puts these ones more in the spotlight and it makes the high functioning kids that fit much more in society look stupid.
5. This is probably the biggest factor: 4chan put the internet into this mentality because of the endless amount of 4chan trolls that bombarded ChrisChan (or Christine Chandler idk why he’s a woman currently). I’m not going to link anything about ChrisChan because he’s literally the most documented human on the face of this Earth because 4chan decided to go even more hardcore than they normally do with their pranks on ChrisChan. ChrisChan also made all the other high functioning autistic people look like morons.
2. Autism Speaks twisting people’s views on autism. For those who don’t know: Autism Speaks is a charity that are supposedly helping people with this disorder but they treat it like it’s a disease or an epidemic that must be eradicated immediately. They have gotten better, but they already revealed their true intentions so I cannot trust them at all.
3. The hate crime that has occurred. There has been all sorts of news about parents killing or attempting to murder their own children who were autistic. People are scared of us because they don’t understand us and that’s why they throw jokes like that as such.
4. How the media portrays us as a whole. They only seem to show the lower functioning kids. Yes I’m aware that these people are unfortunately the burdens of society, but the media puts these ones more in the spotlight and it makes the high functioning kids that fit much more in society look stupid.
5. This is probably the biggest factor: 4chan put the internet into this mentality because of the endless amount of 4chan trolls that bombarded ChrisChan (or Christine Chandler idk why he’s a woman currently). I’m not going to link anything about ChrisChan because he’s literally the most documented human on the face of this Earth because 4chan decided to go even more hardcore than they normally do with their pranks on ChrisChan. ChrisChan also made all the other high functioning autistic people look like morons.
So yeah just put that in a box there so that you don’t have to scroll down. So anyway if you did click on it and read my factors, I’d like you to put your input in on this. What happened with the internet or was it always like this? I hope that this can be a nice discussion post in the forums