I like this approach. “funny meme” aside, I think it is a good way of showing how much a certain language can affect how other people think and feel about a subject. Just read it THAT way and “being neurotypical” suddenly sounds like a disorder that isn’t fully compatible with the public, doesn’t it?

We live in a world that isn’t exactly kind to people on the spectrum. It is loud, flashy, hectic, overwhelming, unrewarding but you’re still expected to work like a cog in a machine, despite having fewer and fewer places where you’d actually “fit in” without grinding gears, and whenever there is some sort of public talk about that topic, it always, always sounds like the affected person is the problem and personally responsible for fixing themselves, when a no small part of “not fitting in” is due to society itself. Maybe a change in language is due to remove that stigma.

    • @BottleOfAlkahest
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      21 year ago

      Unfortunately that is largely not how the corporate world works.

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        Which is why more hierarchies = more bullshit work.

        I remember, once in a nice small company with flat hierarchy, the office guys did a survey for the works outing (sounds weird, “Betriebsausflug”); it was an excel sheet with not-working checkboxes sent via mail, you had to send it back. Now scale that up.