I don’t care for it, either. Nor do I particularly care for “autistic”. Mainly because when I was growing up, if you were autistic enough to get diagnosed you were autistic enough to get institutionalized. My kind of autism used to be called “Asperger’s syndrome” until the DSM-V dropped, and good riddance because Hans Asperger was a fucking Nazi. If I really need a label, “weird” or even “eccentric” will do.
I don’t care for it, either. Nor do I particularly care for “autistic”. Mainly because when I was growing up, if you were autistic enough to get diagnosed you were autistic enough to get institutionalized. My kind of autism used to be called “Asperger’s syndrome” until the DSM-V dropped, and good riddance because Hans Asperger was a fucking Nazi. If I really need a label, “weird” or even “eccentric” will do.