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We need to give the Aperger's type of autistic people the power to rule.
Maybe as some kind of council, because you can still end up with an Elon if you're not careful.
I disagree mainly for the Elon reasons. We want everyone's voices in government and excluding anyone's is a recipe for disaster (yes, I'm one of those crazies that even thinks prisoners should have the right to vote it's wild right). I think it's just that ASD voices are among those conspicuously missing from government and that's something worth working to change.
Might also have something to do with many of us burgers tending to have a really strong sense of justice. Pointed at right direction that's a powerful motivator to go against all perceived wrongs, in the autistic lacking self regulation way. Which can be quite extreme
People often equate justice with revenge. They want people to suffer for offences, real or perceived, that they've committed. The American so-called criminal justice system is all about revenge. It's about locking people up and making them suffer awful living conditions as punishment instead of trying to better them.
Yeah but perceived wrongs and actual wrongs aren't necessarily the same. I've met plenty of autistic folks who are far more Musk than Thunberg
That's why I included the "pointed at right direction" lmao. A lot of people are jerks and that applies to all groups
Prisoners are part of the state. They contribute and they consume. They should definetly have the right to vote.
Yet it's a common belief that they should lose the right to vote because crimes.
Common belief only in the US of A
Should depend on the kind of crime. Stealing a car doesn’t mean you’re not to be trusted to vote. Killing a public figure does, imo.
Speaking as someone with ASD with features typically associated with the former name (we decided as a group that we didn't like having our mental status named after the Nazi scumbag that tortured us to come up with our diagnosis), I really think that this isn't necessarily a perfectly good idea.
I appreciate where this is coming from, and the sentiment it represents. I wish I was as badass as Greta Thunberg, but I'm not. A democracy needs every voice. Especially the sane ones.
I mean it wasn't meant seriously, but I can understand why you might take it that way.
I'll digress from the post a bit here... I can appreciate what you're saying, but this is a wild distortion of what occurred to reclassify Asperger's Syndrome as ASDL1. This is not what happened or why it was done, and there is no credible evidence that Hans Asperger himself was a Nazi or that he tortured anyone.
Again, I appreciate where you are coming from. This story, although many people believe it, is not at all correct. But yes, his work to understand and determine the nuances of autism was used by Nazis to determine who would be killed and who wouldn't. He did cooperate with them, but whether he doomed a group of people or saved another one in that situation is a matter of perspective.
And I personally don't think we should change the names of the things that might be rooted in darker history, regardless of the actual events, well-understood or not. Not simply for the sake of it (again, that's not why it was done in this case). That begs us to forget things that need to not be forgotten. Maybe part of why we find ourselvse repeationg our mistakes as humans.
Speaking, of course, as an autistic person myself.