@autistics
Dear non-autistic folk, AKA (also known as) allistic's. It's that time of the year again. Autism awareness month. That time when you can become aware of autistic's, raise some money and generally show your worth by acknowledging, if nothing else, our existence. Good on you. Although, I suppose it may come as a bit of a shock to know that we don't actually want awareness.
Awareness can and has been historically, "look at their difference," closely followed by "stone them, burn them, they're a witch". Or, being left to die alone in the woods, because they think that you are a changeling and have taken their beloved child. Or simply hearing someone telling a parent, or carer, "Oh, look at them, they are so special. That must be so hard for you, looking after them, I couldn't possibly do that". Or from someone, "but you don't look autistic, I know what autism looks like" and dying a little more inside. Not to mention, in this day and age especially, that we often have minds that see the patterns of the future writ large upon the wall in blood and knowing it will be our blood if the wrong people are only just aware of us and want to use that politically.
So no, we don't want awareness. Awareness is, at best, thinking that you know us, that you can see us. Awareness is feeling good about acknowledging our existence, not our lives. What we want and need is understanding. Understanding that we are different, not less than, or greater. That our minds and senses and bodies work differently to yours. That we have different needs and abilities and challenges. That the world you have made, is, in so many ways, difficult, if not impossible for us and that it is the reason why we so often struggle, or can't cope and not because we are deficient in some way. That we are not missing something (which is why most of us hate the puzzle symbol), or broken, or anything other than just different.
A difference that can't be seen from the outside looking in. By studying us from your point of view, or judging us by your standards. It has to be explained and understood by us telling and showing you. By us sharing our experiences, and knowledge and understanding. By working with us and not in spite of us. Because as minorities have called for throughout the ages, there should be nothing about us, without us, not if you want anything to be in any way meaningful, or true.
Only by truly understanding this. By learning to listen and value our opinions and stories, will you begin to understand and finally grow into where we really need you to be. Accepting us and not just aware of us. Accepting us truly as we are, in all our variety and complexity and not just thinking that you do. So enough of awareness month. Perhaps aim for something better.
#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic
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in reply to \u1f0a1 • • •It will rob you of your voice, and over time extinguish your voice.
Conny Nasch
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •💯. AI processed words are like Velveeta Processed Cheese Products, cheese-like but not legally cheese. Some love it, it's shelf stable, but it's noticeable to makers of actual cheese.
AI is like Ultra Processed Foods of software, easy, addictive, profitable, high in things that erode and cause long-term damage to its consumers.
Good writing is authentic. That authenticity is in the detail, in the nuance, in the creative word or structural choices, that are found in your voice, not in VelveetaAI.
Stumpy The Mutt
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •Note that also people like me who can detect LLM editing will also stop reading upon seeing such common phrases as "It's not X, it's Y" "They thought it was X until suddenly Y happened" and so on. So another side effect of overusing LLM editing is to lose readers.
Since those sorts of things can infect the brain if you read them enough, so people like me preserve their ability to write without LLM poisoning the brain by actively shunning anything that does use it.
Gustavo
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •We definitely need a Idioacracy 2.0 movie.
Maybe created wit Kunstvoller IntellIgenZ.
Brewski
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •. @cwebber Me bottom right. 😅
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •to quote the kangaroo
"the good thing about free speech is that everyone can say what they want. the bad thing is, that everyone is doing it"
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •Dave Mangot
in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •ha! My AI has specific instructions to never attempt to write for me or attempt to rewrite anything I write. I tell it all the time that it's a much worse writer than I am.
That means I use it often as a rubber duck, but not for the writing itself.
Blåhaj
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