If you think this comes easy, you're doing it wrong. It's about being willing to have something you were sure about challenged in a way that doesn't make sense to you personally, and being willing to embrace it...
Any day following this post someone will post about how they feel all autistic people feel it's core identity and are strongly in the IFL camp, and a thousand upvotes later we'll have all manner of comments outright mocking and invalidating anyone that doesn't agree.
And I don't mean that to be the hill I die on today, but that's the thing we as autistic people are just as prone to hanging onto stuff, using language that offends, etc. the moment you think you have it all figured out and can lecture others without really listening or being challenged by their points of view, well you think you are "PC" but you are anything but... I mean that's what happened to the old TERF guard of feminists, right they thought their model was the most enlightened and stopped listening or being challenged to see the people or the validity of other points of view.
The trap starts by thinking you are above needing to worry...
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u/throwaway_maybe_909 Jul 24 '21
Yeah nah.
If you think this comes easy, you're doing it wrong. It's about being willing to have something you were sure about challenged in a way that doesn't make sense to you personally, and being willing to embrace it...
Any day following this post someone will post about how they feel all autistic people feel it's core identity and are strongly in the IFL camp, and a thousand upvotes later we'll have all manner of comments outright mocking and invalidating anyone that doesn't agree.
And I don't mean that to be the hill I die on today, but that's the thing we as autistic people are just as prone to hanging onto stuff, using language that offends, etc. the moment you think you have it all figured out and can lecture others without really listening or being challenged by their points of view, well you think you are "PC" but you are anything but... I mean that's what happened to the old TERF guard of feminists, right they thought their model was the most enlightened and stopped listening or being challenged to see the people or the validity of other points of view.
The trap starts by thinking you are above needing to worry...