My partners daughter called people with autism weird

[michealsmum1998]

As it says in the title my partners daughter aged 26 was talking about someone on TV and said he had autism he was a right weirdo.

Now I may be being touchy as my son has autism but my partner can't see that his precious daughter said or did anything wrong. Am I being unreasonable to feel hurt and angry?

My response would be "I'd rather be a weirdo than pigshit ignorant"

why would it be offensive? that imo is jus daft.
norms/TAB/NT /.....none are insults.
they just say people are not yet disabled

I'm not sure I agree that it's othering, it's just a simple way to identify if someone is neurotypically different or not. Because sometimes it's necessary to know.

I like that Samcro, I think to many people take their health and abilities for granted.

Well, autistic people can have weird behaviours - I know my brother certainly does. But they shouldn't be looked down on for those.

There's nothing wrong with saying neurotypical imo.

Ha! Yeah. Just legged it out of an M&s of all places for, as well as being packed, having music.my head felt ready to explode.

Didn't even get in as far as the wine. Ds1 and I will probably eat our sarnies (the regulation salmon & cuke one for him) in a freezing cold bus shelter because it at least won't be crowded or noisy.

Yes need, I've read people say that autistic is defining the person rather saying the person has autism. It doesn't bother me, it doesn't bother ds. We are autistic, we are asthmatic, it's just a matter of semantics. (To us anyway, but I know some people don't like it)

I don't blame other people for any difficulties I experience. It would be nice if they weren't so nasty though

I don't see what's offensive about neurotypical - it's just describing that the brain works in a typical way isn't it?

If we re-termed autism as neurally a-typical, would that be better?

TAB is a bit weird though. I've never heard it before. I don't find it offensive but I do find it pointless. If you're able bodied you're able bodied. Of course you might at some point in the future become disabled but there's no point in qualifying the fact that you currently aren't - we don't refer to people as temporarily alive because one day they'll be dead do we! Or temporarily a child because they'll soon grow up.

I think the point about TAB is to make a point to the twats who take things like wheelchair spaces and grab rails of a certain specification on buses (I've seen the view expressed that they spoil the view) as things which disadvantage the majority in favour of the few. TAB makes it clear that pretty much everybody is likely to end up one of the "few" one day, even if it's through old age and decrepitude.

Even though mk ost of us are very much aware of this, it only takes one or two ignorant souls to add enough misery to the day of someone who already finds everyday life that bit harder and engender the anger that gives rise to such a seemingly militant term.

at muggles. I might have to pinch that one.

Need and Phil I've also heard it the other way around, that saying autistic person is more appropriate than person with autism, as the latter suggests that autism is an impairment, rather than just another normal way of being.

You will never please anybody with either option, but I think/hope most people will know that neither is intended to be an insult...

Sometimes I think it's peoples attitudes towards me that makes me feel like shit rather than my autism.

I think if society was more accepting of people who are different then people wouldn't even consider me to have something wrong with me.