Thoughts
So the ultra woke neoliberals have cancelled Asperger's, and I think we can apply similar logic to cancel autistic. Which just I would think
would be fun.
The cycle:
* a new word is created to describe a shared experience
* the word becomes popular and its usage increases
* the meaning of the word becomes more broad, as it is used in new contexts
* the word loses concrete meaning
* the word is used in undesirable contexts or to describe things that are undesirable (or as a slur)
* there's backlash against the word, as it is associated with these undesirable things
* the word stops being used
* repeat at step 1
* in parallel, the word is reclaimed
Like sometimes "autistic" is used as an insult and therefore it can be a slur and therefore we should create a new word that doesn't have the same negative connotation. I'm so based.