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"retard" I guess, but I have no idea why they brought it up
Because I think there’s a valid comparison between calling dumb things retarded, and calling complex things autistic.
Not at all. "retarded" is/was regularly used as a slur against people with developmental disorders, including ASD peeps. conflating it with dumb is harmful and/or triggering to the same people.
Your problem here is that you actually feel that being autistic is bad, and therefore are insulted to be likened to such.
Quaint, you telling me what my problem is. Wonder how that’d go if we flipped the roles.
Slur isn’t really the right word for what was previously just an objective medical term with an actual definition. Ya know, like autism is, despite some people’s best efforts.
While there are objectively detrimental types of autism that hamper an individual’s ability to function independently, mostly I’m just annoyed at anyone not violently extroverted or that ever picks up a book being called autistic.
I would consider being inaccurately labelled a valid reason to be upset, no matter how “bad” the term is. Same reason it’s dumb to consider certain types of male fashion “gay”, just let people enjoy shit.
Go on then.
It is a slur now, and you know why it became a slur? Because people started using it to refer to people with deveopmental disorders as an insult, to liken them to such. Because they felt that having a developmental disorder made you less than human! And when it became a slur, it was then used to bully and harass people like me and its used means that you consider "developmentally retarded" (in the medical sense) people as something bad.
Nobody stops you from enjoying shit and there's nothing wrong with some things being considered more girly, or gay or more autistic if you don't consider being girly or gay or autistic a problem.
How this any different than your use of the word autistic in this context?
Because pointing that autistic people tend to like some sort of games is not meant to insult either those people or those games?
All autistic people like these games? All autistic people are the same? So these games are autistic?
You seriously need to chill instead of desperately trying to pick arguments under a meme
You're making bad arguments to defend what I think is a bad opinion. You can ignore me if you want, but I'm not going to just let dumb, no effort comments to me just go unchecked because you want "chill".
"Autistic" has been used as a slur for a couple of years now, and your comic is no different. It's used against people with different minds and medical conditions. What makes a game autistic? Because it's different than other games? Because they require more thought and work? Because they're busier games? Using the word autistic to describe them is insensitive to those with the condition and misrepresentation of what the word means. Maybe you could use a word that already meets the definition of what you're saying rather than attacking an entire demographic?
Dude, when one is self-depricating, why you gonna pile up the hate? This post was -supposed- to be funny, There are several people who were entertained, and none harmed.
I agree, the humour is not refined and the butt of the joke are autistic people, yet I'd argue that you're trying to censor bad humour and that you're on the wrong platform for that.
I'm not trying to censor anything. People can post whatever they want, which means I also get to call out when I feel someone is using language in bad taste that I disagree with. You and OP can definitely ignore me and move on, but maybe others agree with me and want to see comments like mine. Also, I wasn't the first person to say something, I supported another comment with a similar sentiment first.
Who's attacking? It's not used as an insult here. If you think it is, you have a problem yourself
What exactly is it saying then? What does it mean to say that a game is autistic and how is that not targeted towards people with autism?