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123 upvotes, 19 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in Neurodivergent. "🤨🤨🤨"

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Anonymous 17w

Personally, I don’t know any neurodivergent folk who are okay with the r-word

Anonymous 17w

It really is though and I hate it, and I’m the sensitive one for asking people to stop

Anonymous 16w

It’s insane how common it is for parents to instill a lack of empathy in their children today.

Anonymous 17w

Ignorance breeds ignorance….

Anonymous 16w

Tbh I grew up using the word - not as a slur against ppl more of an exclamation like, “that (object or situation) is re-.” Once I learned where it came from and that it was a slur against actual people though I stopped immediately. Like it’s not that hard to recognize how harmful behaviors like this are. I’ll never understand folks who defend it.

Anonymous 16w

Every single person in my life says this word and thinks it’s either hilarious, or knows that it’s offensive and says it for that reason, I think the article is right

Anonymous 16w

My brother who is diagnosed calls himself the R slur and finds it hilarious when we poke at him for autism (my family pokes at each other a lot. We know we are kidding and joking so with each other it’s okay). We only do it at home because we know other people would have a problem with it. I think it goes case by case, but generally the word is not acceptable.

Anonymous 16w

I have autism and one of my biggest compulsions is the importance of the words and phrases we use to prevent being harmful or hurtful to others. Any word or phrase that can be used to put one down isn’t one that should be used. It’s just common courtesy. Even if who you’re saying it to knows you don’t mean it, someone who cares about your opinion can overhear and that will hurt them without you even knowing

Anonymous

OP 17w

To me, it seems like neurotypical ppl are the ones “normalizing” it

Anonymous

OP 17w

After the ‘acoustic’ trend we were already over

Anonymous

OP 17w

Real talk there have been a lot of low-impact autistic and ADHD people who have just unilaterally decided on behalf of the intellectually disabled community that they can use it/give others permission to use it bc they are “reclaiming it” and it pmo so bad??? I see it on this community pretty regularly tbh and I think it’s a huge problem

Anonymous

#4 17w

Idk people are just really jonesing to use slurs in the past 4 years or so in a way that baffles me.

Anonymous

OP 17w

Fr I have a dude on my school’s community blocked because he thinks because he “knows someone that’s okay with it” that he can use it with everyone and “people shouldn’t be offended by words that don’t apply to them”. I think he just has no concept of how empathy works but his username is “Tate.of.(school name)” I don’t think he’ll listen to logic.

Anonymous

#4 17w

ikr + imo reclaiming a slur is using it for oneself, not in the exact same way it’s been used against people in the past (n-word is semi-exception bc i know they use it to refer to each other but to my knowledge they’re not being derogatory about it). all the people i’ve seen reclaiming the r-slur have been using it as an insult the exact same way nt people do

Anonymous

#6 17w

Oh I forgot to add that he’s been reported and had posts removed and multiple temporary bans because of this. I’m seriously surprised he’s still around

Anonymous

#10 17w

It was used against me, repeatedly, as a kid by my abusive siblings, and I’ve found a lot of us have trauma associated with the slur. Tired of people acting like I’ve ruined their life for politely asking them to stop doing something

Anonymous

#10 17w

It’s never been used against me, but I still don’t like the word. Similarly, I’ve never been called LGBTQ slurs but I still don’t like them (as an LGBTQ person)

Anonymous

OP 17w

I am tbh

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Anonymous

OP 17w

I’m neurodivergent and I use it to describe myself and my friends who are both neurodivergent and neurotypical. People make too much of a big deal over words

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Anonymous

#13 17w

Yeah so yall are the people I’m talking about. This is a really foolish thing to be doing at a time of rising ablism and reactionary conservatism. We have ableist pseudoscience fanatics in charge of HHS right now, it is not the time to be giving NTs permission to use slurs against disabled people.

Anonymous

#4 17w

I also get really frustrated with this misinformed idea that being ND at large gives people the right to “reclaim” the R-slur. It’s specifically aimed at intellectually disabled folks, and as an ADHD sibling of a brother with Downs it’s so viscerally upsetting to me the ways in which people with ADHD/without IDs are bringing back a slur that’s not even aimed at them. Sick of high impact folks and people with IDs getting steamrolled and ignored, and it’s even worse coming from other disabled

Anonymous

#4 17w

People who should know better

Anonymous 16w

ND is the broader term for anyone who’s neurodiverse- like the whole spectrum of mental disorders/disability/illness whatever high low impact asd, adhd, bpd all that

Anonymous

OP 16w

Right here👋neurotypicals are the only ones who should be called regarded, take it back etc etc

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