DroneRights

You're not even pretending to have a conversation anymore, are you?

Also, being double jointed is not considered a disability.

Nobody thinks being double jointed is a disability. You misunderstood the point I was making. So I'll make it in clearer terms:

I can understand complex hypotheticals and you can't. Does that make you disabled, because you can't participate in this conversation as my equal? Or does the fact you're not much worse at it than the average person make you normal, and therefore not disabled? Are we measuring disability against the average person, or against the most capable person in the room? Or the most capable person in the world, for that matter? Are you intellectually disabled by the fact that someone better at reasoning than you exists?

I wanted to ask this question using Michael Phelps as an example instead of myself, but you didn't understand, so it's clear I need to make the situation more relatable for your benefit. That's why I ask a more personal version of the question. Are you disabled because of my existence?

I think you're replying to the wrong person

Vue sucks. A pretty graphic of a CGI robot convincing untrained programmers to merge their web files and produce unreadable garbage as the output file.

Booooooo

Testicles doesn't have a U in it, so the second one.

I disagree. Michael Phelps is double jointed. He's the best swimmer in the world because he has a mutation that makes his feet more effective flippers. You said a flaw is still a disability even when everyone has it. Nearly everyone is single jointed, and that makes us worse at swimming than Phelps. Your argument would imply that single jointed people are all disabled.

You can't define disability in absolute terms, or you'll run into problems like that. You have to define disability in socially constructed terms.

Brain sex exists, but it's not gender. And just like body sex, it's multidimensional and comes in intersex flavour. And it's neuroplastic, to a certain extent.

One of the sexually multimorphic aspects of the brain is the emotional response to sex hormones. It's why many trans girls can't cry or can't experience love until they're on estrogen. It's why phantom limb sensations exist. As far as I know, chemical reactions can't be changed, but body maps can. The brain is also responsible for regulating hormone balance, and skilled meditationists can access parts of their brain normally closed to the consciousness and adjust their hormones. I'm speaking from experience when I say that, and my endocrinologist can confirm my story. So you might also consider the brain's instructions to the body on what sex to be, a part of the brain's sex. Like I said, it's multidimensional. A brain can have multiple sexes, just like a body.

I think if you do not want or need a cure, it's not a disability. Doesn't make sense to call it a disability then.

I was having a conversation about this thing you said. Did you change your mind and decide you don't agree with it anymore?

A disability for intrinsic reasons would be something like paraplegia or deafness. There is no social relativity to whether people with these conditions can do less things. But whether something is intrinsically wrong with that person is up to their own judgement. They are free to set their own standard in that case, and determine whether they really should be able to walk or hear, just as I'm free to determine whether I really should be able to make eye contact or process speech. (It is my opinion that the loudness of public spaces is unnatural and unjust, and that people need to fucking speak clearly instead of being lazy and making me do the work of listening closely)

But I think you've ignored my point. Which is that I don't want to be cured of my mind's nature, but I do want to be free of a society that disables autistic people. My question to you is, do I want to be cured? Is social acceptance and accommodation a cure?

Nobody's born with gender, it develops as you age. All newborns are agender.

I'm swarmgender and Lemmy users hate me for it