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re: Tankies: I'm 90% sure that's part of the inexperienced and immature crowd; they - like the vegans and the anti-renting crowd - all have super tunnel vision. Zero nuance or discussion. They fixate on one point to the exclusion of any sanity (which is heavily a spectrum symptom).
HOWEVER, I should add in my rant, there is one other odd / good thing about Lemmy: significantly higher ratio of non-Americans. More language/ communication barriers I've encountered from it, and they are still mostly the aforementioned groups - but hey, not 99% Americans here.
re: Asperger's: heh, I get you. Honestly, imo: own it. Like the LGBT crowd taking the word "gay" back, I see no problem with "Aspys" reclaiming Aspergers.
I hope you're right with the Tankies, and yeah, I'm not really going to let anyone take an identity/descriptor from me with my own autism, even if the people attempting to do so are also on the spectrum. I never noticed the ratio difference of Americans to Non Americans, although I guess as a Canadian I'm not sure where I fall on that ratio xD
I dunno if I have much further to add in this conversation, I mostly just wanted to respond to show I've read and appreciated your own input!