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5:57pm
June 23, 2014
another reason “allistic” bothers me
it doesn’t leave a lot of room for the concept “cousin”
THATS THE POINT. THE WORD WAS MADE UP AS SATIRE FOR THOSE “NON AUTISTIC” OF COURSE IT WONT ALLOW THE CONCEPT OF COUSINHOOD
It wasn’t made up as satire.
It was made up by an autistic girl who, at the time, seriously believed that it would be good to have a word for nonautistic that reflected a difference between autistic (self-istic) and all-istic (other-istic), as in, that autistic people were focused on ourselves while nonautistic people were focused on others.
There was nothing satirical about it.
She meant it. She was serious. I was there.
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madeofpatterns reblogged this from chavisory and added:I also don’t think that using NT to mean not autistic and not a cousin is actually a horrible thing to do. The fact that...
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withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from chavisory and added:No it was coined pretty serious, by Ettina Shee. She has a unique approach to words. Her basic idea is… Like if she sees...
chavisory reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:Yes, that sequence of events makes sense. Because I had been under the impression–apparently wrongly–that the word was...
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into-the-weeds reblogged this from dendriforming and added:Like, regardless, it’s sure as hell not being used satirically now.
witchyautisticweirdo reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:I remember it beginning to circulate around 2011. I remember it gaining popular use due to the blog fyeahautismspectrum....
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dendriforming reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:I remember seeing the discussion a couple of years ago that got it popularized. And… I have no idea how to find that...
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karalianne reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:I know that I am allistic, but I identified as a cousin for so long (and technically still do, even if the term isn’t...
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