@MossGrowsOnNormanRuins my actual intent was that the inevitable consequence of identifying a definitive genetic link would be eugenics
Replying to @winter@translunar.academy
@MossGrowsOnNormanRuins and this is not hyperbole. quite a lot of money goes into research to try to find this exact gene for this exact purpose by hate groups like Autism Speaks. our people are subject to eradication efforts, it’s commonplace, our children are tortured to conform to neurotypical society, our oppression is not taken seriously, and anytime we talk about some well reasoned explanation for something about ourselves, we get accused of talking about magic
Replying to @winter@translunar.academy
@winter by 'magic' i meant the claim that autistic people supposedly have better intuition and theory of mind than neurotypical people despite every autistic person i know being notably worse at this than the norm, or alternatively that they have an inherently anti-cispatriarchal spirit. There's also a lot of ground between "there's very obviously a genetic cause for autism because it's passed down from parent to child" and "we need to find the exact genetic code for autism so we can eradicate all future autistics!"
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@MossGrowsOnNormanRuins we have a different kind of theory of mind than allistics we are not “worse” at theory of mind. it could be you think on some level that we really are inferior to them to the point that if we dare to suggest we might be good at some mental function you read it as us being arrogant and supremacist. same story as every oppressed people really.
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@winter autistic people aren't better at maths than neurotypicals, neurotypicals are just good at a different secret kind of maths your autistic brain can't understand 🧎♂️😇
But fr autistic people are not worse at everything, there's a lot of things they're very famously better at, intuition and theory of mind is not one of them