Aspies For Freedom

Is there currently a slur for NT's?  If there is, I would like to know.  If there isn't, I guess I made one:  Neurotypifag.  I use it for annoying NT's, similar to
"furfag".

N.T.-head, kind of like an empty head...

'Windows NT, says it all really....' xD

Sounds like just a way to stir up trouble, us-and-them and all that.

I just made these on the top of my head:

neuro-twits

neuro-t*ts

neuro-tapioca

neuro-typocrap

Dittoed.

Shamshir, I thought you'd stopped this crap. It's the reason you got your disclaimer in the first place, after all.

I agree; nothing good can possibly come from this thread. I would consider it to be borderline trolling.

Seconded - if you're trying to champion neurodiversity, surely thinking up insults on the basis of one's neuro-alignment is pretty hypocritical?

I am just seeing if there is a slur.

And my idea was to make a demotivational poster with one.

Remember, I am at peace with the NT's, and I am now sarcastic with the slurs.

Fair enough, but you have to understand that this sort of "sarcasm" looks exactly like anti-NT sentiment - to the extent that no-one would be able to tell the difference.

It also has no humour value, so I recommend scrapping it.

I second the above. Just because some people from a group (NTs) have been cruel to autistics, doesn't mean it's right to go around insulting NTs just for being NT.

If a specific NT says or does something wrong to you, then it's time to criticize the action and the individual, not the group. While such reactionary prejudices are understandable, they are not accurate, and they only serve to make us look hostile and ignorant (even if the only original intent was to turn things around - some things are just too mean to be turned around like that).

The thing is, that I am trying to make a demotivational poster, making fun of I2.

Since you pose the question in that context I would like to respond.
I am not sure of my words here and hope they convey the proper message.  The down side of neurotypical is at times the sheer blandness of our normalcy. From perspective of AS it is often the very eccentricites associated with AS that act to form some of the greatest gifts in it. Actually the concept might make for a far better motivational than demotivational poster.Thinking to the positive ...





, but I am not sure of my words

", but I am not sure of my words"

oops, forgot to erase all off first draft. S'ok though. As it bears repeating.

Sometimes enough repeated rejection has the effect of making us reject in anticipation of being rejected, pre-emptive rejection or pre-emptive hostility or pre-emptive prejudice.  Sun Tzu would understand the concept of the pre-emptive air strike to destroy your enemy's air force before they destroyed yours (Six Day War).   But what if we are wrong?  Then we are the bad guys.  

(In the subsequent war, Yom Kippur, Kissinger warned that if Israel did another pre-emptive attack, America would regard it the aggressor, and give it "not so much as a nail" in military aid, so Golda Meir had to let Egypt and Syria attack first when Israel knew the attack was coming)