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@forestvanslyke Have you learned NOTHING about using one single article, or one single voice, to insert yourself into conversations that are not FOR YOU and that you do not have the lived experience to understand the nuances of? STOP DOING THIS SHIT!

@forestvanslyke @xaviersythe I'm having a déjà vu😳

@Moonbae222 I tried... I give up

@forestvanslyke What exactly is "Cancel culture" about any of what is described in this thread?

@forestvanslyke Yes. And what about it is "cancel culture "?

@forestvanslyke Who are those "a lot of people " and who is "we" in "as we understand it today"? What perspective are you speaking from, and who are you speaking about? Who has systemic power over whom in this scenario?

@forestvanslyke There always have been, and always will be Black people upholding the systems of their own oppression. You hiding behind them, (or twisting their words like you did with me) doesn't make you less complicit in the oppression. I'm done being nice. You're dangerous.

@forestvanslyke The way you place yourself in these conversations shows that you do not, in fact, "respect" my work at all. You only appreciate it insofar as it appears to validate your existing bias. (But it really doesn't). This is extractivist colonial thinking.

@forestvanslyke With allistic and with other autistic people alike. Some autistics in fact have social deficits so intense that well into adulthood don’t have access to functional communication because our resources aren’t adequate enough to support their learning

Oh the irony of an autistic person claiming there’s only social issues between autistic/allistic conversations while actively misunderstanding and miscommunicating with every autistic person who tries calling them out

@forestvanslyke I don’t know who’s actually arguing that autism/disability = inferior brain. I’m sure those people exist but I didn’t see any of them arguing with you specifically about this topic earlier.

@forestvanslyke Disorder is a clinically neutral term no matter how much personal negative experience you have with it. I repeat, how do you think people with other mental disorders feel when they see you claim autism isn’t one because autistic people aren’t defective or inferior? No matter what

@forestvanslyke Needs community

@forestvanslyke Your intent is, the only thing you’re accomplishing is telling other people that they are defective and inferior. This anti-disorder rhetoric seems to only serve recently late diagnosed and low support needs autistics that have little to no engagement with the higher support

@forestvanslyke Yes, they are the exact same thing. Google it. I find it interesting how you accuse other people online of being ‘unable to listen’ but you don’t listen to a single thing anyone says out of your narrative. I also find your tokenism interesting.

@forestvanslyke No, because it’s not ableist. If you think autism isn’t a disorder you’re so privileged you can’t even conceptualise how hard it is for most of us.

@forestvanslyke You have social media. Don’t want people reading your tweets? Don’t have social media.

@forestvanslyke Nope, I’m not. I’ve been tracking your stuff for a long time. What you’ve said is disgusting. You perpetuate ableist rhetoric daily, you should look into your own internalised ableism. And, you should learn the fact disorder = disability. They are synonyms.

@forestvanslyke Like you get the irony? You’re stopping people using their own language. At the same time you’re calling people ableist if they don’t agree with your preferred language… You get the irony, right?

@forestvanslyke Hm. So other autistics with higher needs than you can’t decide our OWN language to refer to themselves - severe - but if someone says ‘with autism’ it’s ableist? Make that make sense.