as small as a world and as large as alone

1:18pm July 1, 2014

madeofpatterns:

youneedacat:

OMFG this is weird as weird can be.

madeofpatterns:

youneedacat:

So in 1999, I coined the terms ‘autistic supremacism’ and ‘aspie supremacism’.

And now I’m reading this guy using the words ‘autistic supremacists’ in this Kindle book he’s written that appears to be a lengthy diatribe against the idea of ever listening to anything any autistic person says about…

ASAN did not work to get an autism registry. They commented on one proposed registry, with comments aimed at getting it to be less dangerous if implemented:

http://autisticadvocacy.org/2009/01/comments-on-proposed-new-jersey-autism-registry/

Yeah but this guy is convinced they did.  Of course he’s convinced of a lot of things that are dubious.

http://midnightinchicago dot wordpress dot com/tag/autism-registry/

(You’ll have to convert that to a URL yourself — I refuse to put true links to the guy from my blog.)

Why are you boosting his weird claim that they did that? They didn’t, and he’s not credible.

I’m not “boosting his weird claim that they did that”.  I’m explaining that he did actually claim that they did that, and that he’s saying it in a place where people are likely to listen and assume that he is right.

The following is not boosting his claims either, I’m just trying to tell people what’s out there and what he’s saying.  This is “know your enemy” stuff.

I just found his other blog and he says:

I could be very snide about this and say, “Hey! If there wasn’t something there to write about, I wouldn’t have written anything.”

But instead, I will answer the question even more brutally but just as truthfully: I wrote that book because I was asked to write it.

“Who asked you, Taylor?”

People in the autism community. That’s who.

“Why would they ask you to write a book like this?”

Because certain people and organizations in the autism world have picked on other autistics, and trolled them, and bullied them, and harassed them, and threatened them to such an extent that they feel they no longer have a voice. And since I had already written [book about autistic authors] these trolled and bullied people thought perhaps I could be their voice by writing about the even more controversial issue of people and organizations who use and abuse autistics for selfish and egotistical reasons.

So I wrote the book. And in that book I put in all the opinions that people told me they had privately, but which they were too afraid to say to their trolls and bullies and bullying autistic self advocacy organizations directly. And I structured the book in such a way so that anyone reading it who was a troll or a bully could see how they make people feel, and so that they could see the negative impact they have on autistics.

And you know what? I’ve gotten so much thanks for what I’ve done that I do not regret it.

It’s been a pleasure, giving a voice to the oppressed.

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