When we’re doing the “equal and opposite,” thing, the Double Empathy thing, talking about “Autistic goals and values,” as opposed to NT ones, of course, “values,” and “goals,” are generic, content free, they mean whatever they mean to a reader already, and we’re mostly just telling them whatever they already wanted to hear.
I mean, we’re stuck with it, the NT values we are contrasted against have always been that way, just, “values,’ you know, good ol’ values! Everybody loves values! Think “Family values,” if you’re not with me yet.
It’s something I struggle with, fighting generic language is fighting ghosts. They “never said that,” because they never really said anything. Something has occurred to me this morning of Christmas Eve, though, is that this ploy is working, NT society is keeping its secrets this way, but more, they maintain their theory of neurodiversity this way too because we are stuck with it and play along and start talking about “Autistic values,” so that now it all sounds equal and opposite, when in reality, “Autistic values,” means anything and everything except “Allistic values,” just as Allism and Autism define each other, Allism and Autism’s goals define one another.
Also, just as I place Autism as the entire world and Allism as a new and specific thing, the human warrior caste or something – do keep up, this is our science here, LOL – then so too are Allistic values something very specific, while “Autistic values,” would simply be everything else.
Of course, that isn’t right, to put the whole world into a box labelled, “Autistic values,” is it, when we know where they file boxes with that label.
Jeff
Dec. 24th., 2023
Abuse with an Excuse 