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Be yourself and be true to who you are. Don't let neurotypical conditioning define your identity.
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this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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Yeah, this is the same approach that labelling majority as CIS-gender is. Sure, smart and empathetic people realize and recognize what it's trying to highlight, but others will find it offensive and irritating before, if at all, coming to a conclusion.
The problem with this psychological approach is that it's projecting to bring down others / the out group, instead of attempting to elevate the disadvantaged straight. It creates a faux us vs them tribalism where there was none before.
Does 'straight' (or heterosexual) fall in the same category?
It may have before. I wouldn't know, because when those terms came to be used were before my time.
Cis is just latin for "the same side". You just are cisgender, the same as an isomer can be cis.
If you read my comment, that's not my point. I know what it means. I'm talking about the labelling an out group in an offensive manner to create more division and tribalism.
Edit: I'm not saying the word "cisgender" is offensive. I'm saying that the act of labelling is.
Kurzgesagt has a really good new video on how easily our mind is tricked into categorizing people based on labels, which is amplified by social media, creating an us vs them mindset where the individual is less likely to align with the other side even on things that they would otherwise.
As fun as Kurzgesagt is I don't think following them on politics is a good move. They are primarily a science channel. They also have potential conflicts of interest given who they are funded by.
We have been labelled in many offensive ways for a long time. Allistic isn't meant to be any more offensive than the word autistic is. I have never seen it being used in a deliberately offensive manner the way autistic is often used in an offensive manner. If neurotypical people are scared about such a label that tells you more about them than it does about us and how they treat people they view as different than them.