Oh wow, *thank you*. I'd only seen the fringes of this debacle (as you can probably guess from my post, I don't participate in Yuletide and try to ignore the dialogue around it as much as possible so it won't hurt so much), so when you talked about the ableism I went "huhwhat?" and went looking at your journal. I am so glad I did because I had no idea this was going on.
Also:
Or as they say: merricatk does not feel empathy, so deserves no empathy.
This? This is a fucking HORRIBLE thing to say to someone. I am actually sitting here shaking with rage over it. Of course, most people probably don't have my history with having seen claims that they have no empathy used to discount people as monsters, less than human, undeserving of full human rights, again and again and again - most recently against my brother in order to take his daughter away from him which is why I am just a little bit angry here, but this is a common thread throughout autism rights dialogue and probably to a lesser extent talk about neuroatypicality in general. It ties in with the whole "people with mental illnesses are being selfish!" thing which, uh, we see right here. Which is to say, that kind of statement (apart from being, you know, HORRIBLE) is massively, massively loaded in an ableist way.
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Or as they say: merricatk does not feel empathy, so deserves no empathy.
This? This is a fucking HORRIBLE thing to say to someone. I am actually sitting here shaking with rage over it. Of course, most people probably don't have my history with having seen claims that they have no empathy used to discount people as monsters, less than human, undeserving of full human rights, again and again and again - most recently against my brother in order to take his daughter away from him which is why I am just a little bit angry here, but this is a common thread throughout autism rights dialogue and probably to a lesser extent talk about neuroatypicality in general. It ties in with the whole "people with mental illnesses are being selfish!" thing which, uh, we see right here. Which is to say, that kind of statement (apart from being, you know, HORRIBLE) is massively, massively loaded in an ableist way.
I. I just. Why.