Do Not Say “Tisms” (A RANT)

https://substack.com/home/post/p-209938112

It gets up my left nostril.

And believe me, no one wants that.

I know, it’s “cute” for us all to “be on the spectrum.” You may even think it’s helping “autism awareness” and making things easier for those “neurodivergent” people who are a little different.

AUTISM IS A DISABILITY. There, I said it. Anyone who is not disabled by autism should not use the word. Being “weird” is not autism.

Guess what? There’s a HUMAN SPECTRUM. Humans are not cookie-cutter samey-samey. No matter what society wants us, increasingly, to believe. There’s a broad spectrum of “normal.”

And hijacking a very real disability so that you can feel special in your weirdness? Nope. Don’t be that person. DO NOT DO IT.

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