This post contains mentions of the Holocaust, ableism, and eugenics. Please do not read if you are sensitive to these topics.
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There have been conversations regarding whether the term Asperger’s should still be used in the autism community. This post will explain the biggest issue I and other people have with the label. There’s no way to gently segue into this so I’m just going to start.
The term Asperger’s was coined by an actual Nazi. Hans Asperger worked with the Nazis during the Holocaust. He saved some children who he deemed intelligent enough by giving them the label of Asperger’s and sent the rest of the kids to die.
Some people call him a hero for saving kids during the Holocaust, but he sent children to be murdered because he saw them as genetically inferior. He saw some of us as a “hardly bearable burden” to our families. He believed that they should be put out of our misery.
I do not believe allistics should use the term Asperger’s to describe an autistic person. I do not believe that autistic people should use it for themselves either. However, I’m not saying that you should assume someone is a bad person for using it. I figure that most do not know the history. There are autistics who use the term for various reasons even knowing the history, which I heavily disagree with.
And I’m not the only one who feels this way. I learned this from listening to Jewish autistic people speak on the subject. If you are not Jewish, it is best to listen to those who have the authority on the matter.
Here is a video of a Jewish autistic person explaining how use of this label harms not only Jewish autistics, but autistic people as a whole. She also makes a very good point about Asperger’s being a functioning label.
Here is an article about Hans Asperger being a Nazi.
Some of the information here is correct. However, Asperger did not name the condition he studied after himself. He actually called it “autistic psychopathy,” back when psychopathy meant something different than it does today. A psychologist named Lorna Wing named Asperger’s Syndrome after him decades before it was clear that he was a Nazi. (Source: Neurotribes by Steve Silberman, paperback edition)
To be absolutely clear, I don’t think what Asperger did was okay. It’s just important to be accurate in informational posts.
This post contains mentions of the Holocaust, ableism, and eugenics. Please do not read if you are sensitive to these topics.
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There have been conversations regarding whether the term Asperger’s should still be used in the autism community. This post will explain the biggest issue I and other people have with the label. There’s no way to gently segue into this so I’m just going to start.
The term Asperger’s was coined by an actual Nazi. Hans Asperger worked with the Nazis during the Holocaust. He saved some children who he deemed intelligent enough by giving them the label of Asperger’s and sent the rest of the kids to die.
Some people call him a hero for saving kids during the Holocaust, but he sent children to be murdered because he saw them as genetically inferior. He saw some of us as a “hardly bearable burden” to our families. He believed that they should be put out of our misery.
I do not believe allistics should use the term Asperger’s to describe an autistic person. I do not believe that autistic people should use it for themselves either. However, I’m not saying that you should assume someone is a bad person for using it. I figure that most do not know the history. There are autistics who use the term for various reasons even knowing the history, which I heavily disagree with.
And I’m not the only one who feels this way. I learned this from listening to Jewish autistic people speak on the subject. If you are not Jewish, it is best to listen to those who have the authority on the matter.
Here is a video of a Jewish autistic person explaining how use of this label harms not only Jewish autistics, but autistic people as a whole. She also makes a very good point about Asperger’s being a functioning label.
Here is an article about Hans Asperger being a Nazi.
Ableists like furiousgoldfish amaze me because there is no winning. If we talk about our symptoms, we’re just admitting how abusive and evil we are. If we don’ttalk about our symptoms, we’re lying so we can better deceive and abuse people. The only way someone like them will “accept” us is if we’re dead.
According to people like this, there is no recovery for people with NPD. There is no support, there is no place where you can safely discuss your symptoms; if you develop NPD after a traumatic childhood, you’re a monster, should be kept from being able to reproduce, and are destined to do nothing but abuse until you die.
No offense or anything, but I don’t think it’s usthat sound abusive…
Addressing all my mutuals here, stop reblogging their posts about abuse, no matter how relatable they might feel to you out of context. They 100% include cluster B people and trans people in their definition of an abuser.
If you hadn’t heard about this, you are not in the minority. *I* hadn’t heard about this. It’s not being covered or talked about at all, aside from by individuals in disabled communities. This is a horrific hate crime and Annie’s response to ableism and activists’ lack of attention to disability issues is so incredibly eloquent, powerful, and necessary. If you are a fellow marginalized person or an ally in general, you need to be sharing the hell out of this.
Masks aren’t going to be mandatory inside anymore from Feb 28th onwards (in france) even though contaminations are still at an all time high.
I just
I’m so fucking tired why are so many people pretending it’s over, it’s not, we’re still at risk, vulnerable people are still very much in danger, this is such fucking bullshit
Text: there is systematic discrimination against psychotic people in the healthcare system
Psychotic people are discriminated against in the healthcare system. First thing that comes to mind is the lack of outpatient treatment options, the centers that were meant to treat de institutionalized psychotic patients in the late 20th century turned those patients away and treated non-psychotic patients instead. Few outpatient therapists working private practice know how to treat psychotic patients. Psychotic patients are often brutalized in mental wards, something many of us are intimately familiar with.
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Very sinisterly, having a diagnosis like schizophrenia or BPD can lead to your death through medical discrimination. Patients with psychotic disorders are likely to be denied organ transplants, which is in fact illegal but happens anyway (for example, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127379/). One must wonder how else healthcare neglect shortens our lifespans? There is rampant discrimination against psychotic people in healthcare, and it must stop.
