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Autism Offensive Terms I Collected 7 That We Would Agree On · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Have you ever wondered what the offensive terms for autism are?
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  Slash the terms that offend autistic people?
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  Well, in this video, I'm going to cover seven of the ones that
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  I think are the most offensive and ones that I kind of
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  personally take offensive. So buckle up, you're in for
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  rights. A bit of a weird video, but I
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  thought I'd do it anyway because like some people ask, like, is
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  this offensive? I don't know.
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  All right, guys, so let's get into it.
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  The first thing I want to address is very simple.
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  You know, offense is something that is taken, right?
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  Never given, but also if somebody's saying something
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  that's guaranteed to offend people on purpose.
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  This is what this video's about. So the first thing I'd like to
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  actually state is that Asper or Asperger's isn't an offensive
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  term. A lot of people will have you
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  say, oh, you can't use the term Asperger's because it's related
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  with Hitler's friends, but it's not.
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  It's not related to that at all. Actually.
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  In actual Farcan's, Asperger was never involved with the Nazis
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  and he had nothing to do with Nazi party in Germany at all.
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  He actually lived in Austria when it was Vienna was occupied
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  by Nazi Germany. But I did a 26 minute deep dive
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  video analysing the paper and where this kind of weird like
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  rumour mill spread from and how people get it completely wrong.
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  And the reason Aspergers isn't used anymore as a term in the
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  diagnostic criteria in the DSM and the IDC is because the
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  American healthcare system wouldn't recognise Aspergers as
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  autism. So people were missing out on
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  actually getting access to therapy and their insurance
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  plan. So they changed it to be an
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  umbrella term for autism spectrum disorder.
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  And that's why we don't use the term anymore.
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  Not because anybody was offended or anybody was at World War 2,
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  you know, Nazi, nothing like that.
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  So yeah, first one. Good.
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  Oh, and that kind of answered the question.
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  People say to me, why do you use the term Asbury all the time in
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  Aspergers? Isn't it offensive?
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  Not in the slightest man. All right, so first word, the R
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  word retarded or retardation. Why would you use that?
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  Why look using terms like retardation or retard is just
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  offensive to everybody then. You don't even have to be
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  autistic to get this. But people will say that
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  autistic individuals are retarded.
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  And like, I remember seeing a clip once when Elon Musk had
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  bought Twitter, one of the exacts of Twitter was in the was
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  caught on a camera in in like a coffee shop talking to some guy.
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  And he's like, yeah, you know, he's a he's got Asperger's and,
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  you know, he's a bit. And he was like kind of hinting
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  that having autism made him less of a person, which is super
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  offensive. Like what?
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  I, I don't, I don't understand the mentality there.
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  But Needless to say, you know, most have been the richest guy
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  in the world sending people to miles.
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  That's pretty cool, right? I don't know.
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  So next one is idiotic or idiot. People will call like people
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  with autism stupid or idiot and they'll say this because
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  autistic individuals won't do things in the way that other
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  people do things. So if an autistic person does
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  something that seems slightly odd to somebody else and in
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  their own viewpoint, they may find it quite stupid to do this
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  or counter intuitive. It's not a reflection on the
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  autistic person's intellectual ability or anything like that.
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  It doesn't mean they're idiotic or that they're stupid.
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  It actually just means that they're doing something
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  different to what you would have done.
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  So I'd highly recommend trying to avoid using terms idiot,
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  stupid around autistic individuals when you're
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  referring to them. I mean, you should be done that
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  to anybody anyway, but autistic people will find this massively
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  offensive. Yeah, next one is high
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  functioning and I'm combining this next one with the one after
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  it. So high functioning and low
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  functioning. OK, so let me let's go through
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  it. OK.
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  Functioning labels are descriptive factors when someone
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  is trying to say I have autism but it has lower support needs
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  or higher support needs, right? But by saying high functioning,
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  low functioning, you kind of imply that the person is high
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  functioning in life. So how do you define it?
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  Like oh you you've got autism, maybe you're high functioning.
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  What does? That mean?
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  Am I high functioning? In what respect?
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  You can't just say high functional is a broad term.
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  I struggle greatly in many areas.
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  I struggle greatly in more areas than I achieve in.
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  And those areas where I struggle in, I've to seek medication for.
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  I've to seek therapy for I struggle so hard in the areas
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  that doesn't make me high functioning as a whole.
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  It's so interesting, but I understand why people are trying
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  to understand the term. But I think the less we use
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  those terms, high functioning, low functioning, the better
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  communication with autistic individuals becomes because it
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  is kind of offensive, you know, because it's derogative in a
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  way. And when people use these terms,
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  sometimes they do use them derogatively and high
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  functioning, low functioning, you know, so if I'm high
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  functions, I mean, somebody else is low functioning.
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  Imagine being told you're low functioning.
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  It's just as insulting as saying you're high functioning.
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  You know, you either underplay or overplay the value of
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  somebody's worth. And I don't think that's fair,
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  especially noticing individuals. Guys, you know what I'm talking
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  about. Give this video a thumbs up, OK?
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  The next one is special, using the term special to describe an
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  autistic person as kind of a bit of a background slap, like, oh,
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  you're special though. I mean, we're all special in
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  God's eyes, right? But what I'm talking about that
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  what I'm talking about is when someone uses it derogatively or
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  almost like pedantically, like kind of no, it's not passive
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  aggressive. It's kind of it's when they're
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  saying like, oh, but you're special, It's really, really
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  patronising. So I would say try to avoid
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  using the term special when talking about autistic people
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  because yeah, we're all special. But it's a bit weird, right?
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  Like additional needs, not special needs now.
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  So it's kind of like, come on, man.
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  OK, second to last one is autistically.
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  People use this term all the time.
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  Like, oh, I'm autistically good at this.
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  What the heck? Like who?
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  Why? You're not allowed to use that
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  term to describe something like what are you talking about?
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  Like, like, oh, I'm good at, you know, I'm good at poker.
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  I'm artistically good at poker. I'm like, hold on a SEC.
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  What? What are you talking about?
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  This is so insulting. Like it's so offensive to use
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  autistically anything. It's stupid.
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  Like why would you ever do that? I can't believe it.
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  Why would you ever use that term anyway?
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  Don't use that term. Don't autistically anything.
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  Just be you just don't offend people, right?
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  No. And the last one, it's ignorant.
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  Oh my goodness, Like if I had a dollar for every time somebody
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  said I wasn't ignorant or, or ignorant or full of myself or,
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  you know, arrogant, like I am not any of those things, but
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  people think I am because I have difficulties communicating what
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  I want or my needs. And sometimes I don't want to be
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  around social situations and I just leave without proper
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  protocol or other things, right. And people think that it's
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  arrogant and I'm, I'm full of myself and I think a lot of
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  myself. I don't.
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  I just, I'm a normal average guy who has autism, right?
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  But I don't think I am any more than anybody else.
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  And it's kind of offensive when people say you're ignorant
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  because you're trying your best to not be anything but nice to
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  everybody. So those are the terms.