I felt that when they were talking about getting stuck in autismland and forgetting all my diagnoses as a neurodivergent and physically disabled/ chronically I’ll person lmao. I forgot my stuff all the time 😭😭 ALSO- serious time I was looking at Earl’s Instagram and their posts couldn’t be more truer. Whether we want to listen to it or not there is definitely a “hierarchy” in the autism community. Specifically people who are able bodied neurodivergents and very specifically white. Specifically what earl was saying about people who have lower support needs. When they see something that’s “too much” for them or what not they distance themselves. Even those stupid little trends like “I’m r* but I’m not THAT r*” “AAAAAA” and it’s like “I pass as neurotypical” and then it’s like “BUT WHEN I SEE ___” like it’s this thing about the privilege whether you can mask or not. I look normal until ___. That is a PRIVILEGE. Or when people in the community start to target other autistic people for things they say or call out things that make them uncomfortable with. Things like speaking over others or the issue with functioning labels. Functioning labels like higher and lower are harmful yes, but people still have levels of needs. Autistic people who are so focused on their group and their group only or supremacy of their lower needs forget that there’s still people with higher needs and people who are both autistic, are poc or have poc families, and or have physical disabilities and illnesses. Living in a world with all of the above is so different from living in a world where you can just simply blend in. If you can mask and that’s safer for you at the risk of your own comfort that’s amazing just be kind to yourself, but if you can’t that’s ok too and that shouldn’t be the standard from people who say “not a single autistic person is the same” but when they see somebody who’s autistic and doesn’t meet the same criteria or what not as them fake claims or looks at them weirdly or pushes away from that. I’ve heard stupid bull like “oh you’re not autistic because you’re not jumpy” or something stupid. If I were to jump around and what not my knees would dislocate and I’d be in pain. Some people are uncomfortable moving around. Autism is A HUUUUUUGE SPECTRUM not your little circle. And not all people are in a safe environment socially or even family wise to be able to be comfortable with your diagnoses and your identities. It is so amazing that people have that and it should never be looked at as a bad thing. That is still a privilege. Nobody’s targeting anybody or pushing away their experiences, but people need to realize their privilege and listen to other voices instead of shutting them out and sticking to their own little box of standards that may be severely harmful to other autistics.
I hope we can see more of Earl here on your channel; the energy between you two was lovely and the conversation was so important! I definitely have a lot of reflecting to do and I think I need to listen to this again and take notes!
Except for at college where in classes my disability is visible it’s hard because my disability is generally what you could call invisible. Except for certain lags and my way of talking is somewhat not correct at least for me I have to remind people I have a processing disorder. This one’s so far really hard for to grapple with because it’s not exactly obvious that I have a disability until I someone gets to know me. The only thing that might make it obvious is I am very roundabout when I’m thinking or it takes me a while to answer or I monologue or am not entirely socially “normal”
Thank you for this video. I do hope as a white trans and disabled person I can learn better to realize how much privilege I have. I have a lot of it based on my race, my income bracket, and my ability to be out in multiple ways where I am.
Earl, what are your thoughts about the prohibition of large language models as an accessibility aid? I ask as I'm already starting to see many institutions and public forums taking step to ban this assistive technology and from my perspective I see this as inherently discriminatory.
Using slurs isn't ok and yet at the same time people are throwing around "queer" like there is no tomorrow despite a large portion of gay and bi people saying over and over again that they don't want to by referred to by this word
Queer is a distinct one because of the fact that there's been movements to reclaim the word for quite a while, there are many regions where it is rarely used as a slur, and it is useful as an identity for some since it is so vague. Like it's common courtesy to not use "queer" to talk about others without explicit consent, but it's more complicated than some slurs are.
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don't forget traumatic brain injury as a neurodivergence~ whee!
as well as epileptic encephalopathies, brain lesions, viral meningitis with memory loss, et. al.
I felt that when they were talking about getting stuck in autismland and forgetting all my diagnoses as a neurodivergent and physically disabled/ chronically I’ll person lmao. I forgot my stuff all the time 😭😭
ALSO- serious time I was looking at Earl’s Instagram and their posts couldn’t be more truer. Whether we want to listen to it or not there is definitely a “hierarchy” in the autism community. Specifically people who are able bodied neurodivergents and very specifically white. Specifically what earl was saying about people who have lower support needs. When they see something that’s “too much” for them or what not they distance themselves. Even those stupid little trends like “I’m r* but I’m not THAT r*” “AAAAAA” and it’s like “I pass as neurotypical” and then it’s like “BUT WHEN I SEE ___” like it’s this thing about the privilege whether you can mask or not. I look normal until ___. That is a PRIVILEGE. Or when people in the community start to target other autistic people for things they say or call out things that make them uncomfortable with. Things like speaking over others or the issue with functioning labels. Functioning labels like higher and lower are harmful yes, but people still have levels of needs. Autistic people who are so focused on their group and their group only or supremacy of their lower needs forget that there’s still people with higher needs and people who are both autistic, are poc or have poc families, and or have physical disabilities and illnesses. Living in a world with all of the above is so different from living in a world where you can just simply blend in. If you can mask and that’s safer for you at the risk of your own comfort that’s amazing just be kind to yourself, but if you can’t that’s ok too and that shouldn’t be the standard from people who say “not a single autistic person is the same” but when they see somebody who’s autistic and doesn’t meet the same criteria or what not as them fake claims or looks at them weirdly or pushes away from that. I’ve heard stupid bull like “oh you’re not autistic because you’re not jumpy” or something stupid. If I were to jump around and what not my knees would dislocate and I’d be in pain. Some people are uncomfortable moving around. Autism is A HUUUUUUGE SPECTRUM not your little circle. And not all people are in a safe environment socially or even family wise to be able to be comfortable with your diagnoses and your identities. It is so amazing that people have that and it should never be looked at as a bad thing. That is still a privilege. Nobody’s targeting anybody or pushing away their experiences, but people need to realize their privilege and listen to other voices instead of shutting them out and sticking to their own little box of standards that may be severely harmful to other autistics.
earl is so cool
I hope we can see more of Earl here on your channel; the energy between you two was lovely and the conversation was so important! I definitely have a lot of reflecting to do and I think I need to listen to this again and take notes!
Except for at college where in classes my disability is visible it’s hard because my disability is generally what you could call invisible. Except for certain lags and my way of talking is somewhat not correct at least for me I have to remind people I have a processing disorder. This one’s so far really hard for to grapple with because it’s not exactly obvious that I have a disability until I someone gets to know me. The only thing that might make it obvious is I am very roundabout when I’m thinking or it takes me a while to answer or I monologue or am not entirely socially “normal”
Thank you for this video. I do hope as a white trans and disabled person I can learn better to realize how much privilege I have. I have a lot of it based on my race, my income bracket, and my ability to be out in multiple ways where I am.
Earl, what are your thoughts about the prohibition of large language models as an accessibility aid? I ask as I'm already starting to see many institutions and public forums taking step to ban this assistive technology and from my perspective I see this as inherently discriminatory.
Thanks for making this.
I love earl's necklace!!
What program does Earl use for their AAC? What hacks work best for them with communication?
Science is hard, words are harder... th-cam.com/video/Rus_3VjMf0s/w-d-xo.html
Using slurs isn't ok and yet at the same time people are throwing around "queer" like there is no tomorrow despite a large portion of gay and bi people saying over and over again that they don't want to by referred to by this word
Queer is a distinct one because of the fact that there's been movements to reclaim the word for quite a while, there are many regions where it is rarely used as a slur, and it is useful as an identity for some since it is so vague. Like it's common courtesy to not use "queer" to talk about others without explicit consent, but it's more complicated than some slurs are.