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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 23:49:46 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

   When people calls you “abnormal”, thank them.

   1. If they ask why? Reply with, “Abnormal = Above Normal. You are normal, so I'm above you.”

   2. If they don't, well, they won't be able to sleep. =))

   #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 05:34:45 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • cramleir

     @cramleir Hmm… you misunderstood. 😉

     It's not about "ASD may give you …", it's about leveling with people who use inappropriate and discriminatory words, and often simply won't stop. By replying to them at their own level, they start to listen.

     I've tried it, works every time. They either start listening and get to know you, or they stop bothering you.

     No one is "pretending", nor it was suggested that way by saying "abnormal is above normal".

     There are people you can only reach if you level with them, they only respond if you use their own language.

     In fact, the reason they use such inappropriate and discriminatory words, such as, "abnormal", is because they see themselves higher than people with disability (PWD). PWDs need to make a stand and show they are equals, instead of cowering.

     Saying "abnormal = above normal" is a response to people who discriminates against PWD because they see themselves above PWD and won't listen until you make a stand.

     😃

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     cramleir (cramleir@twit.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 05:34:46 JST cramleir

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     @youronlyone disagree, dangerous and irresponsible to yourself and others. ASD may give you helpful benefits in some situations but that does not make you or me better than anyone else, and pretending that you are is only going to hurt you. Elon Musk, to the extent his self reported diagnoses are true, is all of the example we need that an arrogant insistence that you are better and smarter than those around you is self destructive.