Yeah, Hexbear is frustrating about this stuff sometimes. Overall I don't find this place to be too alike leftist twitter spaces, but alongside policing there's that same weird smug dunk culture. It really doesn't happen too much but I've seen it a couple times in the last few days and it's just way too online.

I agree, must I declare my neuro or physical ability, sexuality, and more, every time I post? Only when it's controversial? Do I need to prove it?

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

It's frustrating because, if I want to talk about my own experience with being ND, then yeah me mentioning it is relevant (and then these fuckers don't do anything about it (except Carcosa, who is cool)), but neurotypical people should be allowed to talk about it too because ultimately what we are concerned with is a truth that is broader than my own personal experience. If we really do live in the same reality, then I have special access to my own experiences, but that's it. If something is true (and not just a matter of individual sensation), people should be able to engage with it and understand it rather than just be told what is true and accept it.

But instead we have this radlib-style idpol standpoint epistemology where we just assume things are incomprehensible to people and there's nothing they can do but listen and follow the conclusions they are instructed on, because the premises and inferences that lead to those conclusions just can't be accessed by them.

I don't want to need to "justify" myself by fucking tokenizing myself into being "person who is ND" so that these radlibs say that I'm allowed to speak; it's revolting. Why can't we just talk about things and try to come to common understanding? Why do I need to check some box for these people? Aren't we all humans who can -- to an incomplete but still substantial extent -- understand each other?