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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 38 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 36 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I love how autism has become this fetishized thing that you slap onto all people operating outside of expected parameters.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 25 points 6 hours ago

That’s exactly what I’d expect an autistic person to say.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think that's what fetishized means.

[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

It is. It refers to things being held in special regard in social arrangements, to an religious extent. The autism discourse, with all the memes and such, does more often than not include a cult-like adherence to beliefs around certain behaviours that anyone could display, shifting focus away from the developmental aspects of autism which are very much real and to diagnostic markers that are less than well defined but are used in clinical settings like: trouble at work/school/kindergarten [Y/N], and certain things the hiveminds of the world latch onto. There I think of people regarding dislike of the "big" light as being an indicator for autism(???).

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Autistim is the new 'touched by god'.

[–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

There I think of people regarding dislike of the "big" light as being an indicator for autism(???).

Makes one wonder if vampires are autistic.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

That's a very informal, essentially slang usage of the word. It's so informal that it's pointless to argue about whether it's even correct. At any rate better word could certainly have been chosen.

[–] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Huh?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fetishism

Entry 1. and 3., I don't think you know what you are talking about.

[–] CopLoverBillionairefan@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

literally what it means. People treat words like divine tangible streams of meaning when they're just sounds we make

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Either you're using "literally" in a non-literal fashion, or you're using it to make your statement even more incorrect.

[–] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 3 points 8 hours ago

Ding ding ding, we have a winner!