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8:59am May 13, 2014

➸ Allistic

youneedacat:

When you say allistic to mean nonautistic…

What you’re actually saying, is that autistic means self-oriented and that its opposite means other-oriented. So you’re saying that autistic people are essentially self-centered, and that nonautistic people are other-centered.

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I don’t think we need a new word for autism.  Nobody remembers what autistic literally means anyway.  I just don’t think we need a new word for nonautistic.  We already have a word for nonautistic.  (In general I’m not in favor of making up new words when words already exist.  It just makes things harder for people with language problems.  So making new words for autism will just compound that problem.)

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    This is a new perspective to me. I have mostly heard “allistic” being advocated for by autistic people, in what I see as...
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