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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 48 points 1 day ago
[-] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago

I love how autism has become this fetishized thing that you slap onto all people operating outside of expected parameters.

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

I don't think that's what fetishized means.

[-] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is. It refers to things being held in special regard in social arrangements, to an religious extent. The autism discourse, with all the memes and such, does more often than not include a cult-like adherence to beliefs around certain behaviours that anyone could display, shifting focus away from the developmental aspects of autism which are very much real and to diagnostic markers that are less than well defined but are used in clinical settings like: trouble at work/school/kindergarten [Y/N], and certain things the hiveminds of the world latch onto. There I think of people regarding dislike of the "big" light as being an indicator for autism(???).

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

to an religious extent

yeah, I don't think that applies here

[-] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

There are also civil and secular religions, so it still applies. Think about the way we fetishize democracy, long covid or mold exposure. Really interesting topic.

[-] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 23 hours ago

There I think of people regarding dislike of the "big" light as being an indicator for autism(???).

Makes one wonder if vampires are autistic.

[-] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

No, vampires have rabies.

[-] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

Autistim is the new 'touched by god'.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's a very informal, essentially slang usage of the word. It's so informal that it's pointless to argue about whether it's even correct. At any rate better word could certainly have been chosen.

[-] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Huh?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fetishism

Entry 1. and 3., I don't think you know what you are talking about.

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