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I am autistic, an autist, not a “person with autism”
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What is Neurodivergence?
It's ADHD, Autism, OCD, schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, bi-polar, aspd, etc etc etc etc
“neurologically atypical patterns of thought or behavior”
So, it’s very broad, if you feel like it describes you then it does as far as we're concerned
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Ask them if they'd call a black person a "person with blackness"
Is that not what “person of color” is trying to do?
I prefer non-White because that's what the category is really about, defining people in opposition to the political racial ideology of Whiteness
Not really, it's a more accurate and meaningful term to replace "minority", especially since white minorities in non-white regions can still have white privilege
I have seen people in the comments on some platforms argue for that when I mention stuff like this, its a time
I think “black person” is more or less equivalent to “autistic person/person with autism”.
CW racist language
What OP is asking would be closer to calling someone “a black”, which sounds offensive for obvious reasons - it reduces personhood and emphasizes their difference, one that historically was used to discriminateOnly because in that case the word was used to persecute. Same how both "A latino(a)" and "a latino person" are fine, but "a hispanic" is really bad
specifically "a hispanic" is bad because it's wrong linguistically? Was it used historically (or now) to be racist? I looked up historical use real quick and only found stuff about adding "Hispanic" as a choice in the 70s. What did i miss?
I too am interested to know this. I don't want people to think I'm assuming all people from Latin America as being Mexican, so when I'm unsure where exactly they are from I have used 'is Hispanic' in the past.
I'm aware of the S word slur that likely derives from this. Is this why Hispanic is bad? What word to describe the Latin American or Spanish cultures would be better advised?
Only because "blackness" isn't really a typical (or technically appropriate) word? I've heard "people with darker skin" or equivalent and it seems to have been fine, in appropriate contexts.
People with darker skin sounds weird as fuck and is kinda meaningless phrase
"Dark skinned people" is better
As a cracker, I'm in no position to assert what is or isn't better. But as I say, I've heard the phrase/equivalent used many times by many a person and it's been fine.