Sure, the downside is I dont know her so she is unlikely to come here if I ask her. Even less likely as I have a total desire to remain anonimous.
You and Lucifer both, then. I can understand it, but it does limit one's power in defending a cause.
That is the way it is at the minute, but if society is changed so NT's do give a fuck about autism then aspie bashing would become a sport.
Hm. Last time I checked, aspie bashing was already a sport, people just don't know that the "losers" and "freaks" they're beating up have a diagnosable condition. I'm not sure that them adding the label to their retinue of insults would increase the number of people being fucked with.
Also bare in mind that NT's make decisions about us, if they think we are all retards when making this decisions then HFA people are going to be totally ignored in any form of help / assistance.
Valid concern, but it goes both ways. If only high-functioning people (and yes I know that term's debatable, but I don't have a better word for it) advocate, then the ones who have more trouble would be just as left out in the cold. I'm in favor of as many people speaking up as possible. Like you said, there are more NT's than autistics. We can't afford to silence our own.
1. True I like to remain private, but I dont pull anything into a debate that I cannot back up within the domains of my privacy. You are right, it constrains my arguement, but I am used to it really, when you pretend to be an NTconstantly then you get well versed in being able to do it.
2. Aspie bashing is a bit of a sport to some people as it is now, but it can always become a more popular one. Particuarly when aspies are given unwelcome publicity, most bullying in schools revolves around what is currently in the media.
3. Certain times it is helpful to silence our own. For example if dear Cho who shot up Virginia Tech was publised as an aspie, then we would have has a big problem on our hands. Same with a large amount of people who currently run things in the world, their are an awful lot of closet aspies in high up positions, many nations are run by them, often in a backdoor manner. If they were forced out of the closet I think people would start to get pretty scared of us, given how much we actually run things in the world, it would be the Jew thing all over again...