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AUTISTS/ASPIES SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN NAMED AFTER HANS ASPERGER AND MINORITY GROUPS SHOULD NEVER BE NAMED AFTER SCIENTISTS OR DOCTORS EVER AGAIN UGH!!!!!!!!

Ive written multiple long essays about my struggles and how my disabilitys affect me long before i ever read about them online

Litterally go read up on your history of who a lot of these scientists are and what they did too innocent people, i shouldnt have too deal with ableists justifying the genocide of my people

When i was younger i would refer too the combination of my asperger and bpd traits as "being a mushroom" and went at length about how my special interests, social struggles, and abandonment issues all stem from a condition ill call agaricism, i dont need too show you all my years of independent research too know that nobody has the right too f###ing name MY disability after a nazi. I am a agaric. That is my disability. I have written at length about this, and i can even copy paste some of it if you really dont beleave me.

Ahem, here is the essay i wrote two years ago.

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Being a fungus represents being "other", a third option, or non binary. Not only do fungi not have a gender binary but fungi fall out of the "animal plant" binary that was once thought too exist.

I resonate especially with the fly agaric, but not for aesthetic like many others do

Mushrooms are the first "not a plant not a animal" organism most people learn about so it serves as a window in too the fact that biology isnt so black and white

Mushrooms are often a vegan alternatives, that along with subverting the expectation of being fly poison strongly represents being vegan too me

Being mycorrhizal also just represents caring deeply about protecting nature, as well as wanting too connect everything

Being mycorrhizal represents how i can get really attached too those closest too me and want too give them everything

I resonate with being "the fungal web" since i was essentially raised by the internet

Being psychoactive represents being "awakened" and able too see things about the world that others cant [such as with veganism]

Being considered dangerous and toxic represents how it feels like everyone treats me, how i tend too be destructive [or rather self destructive] around somebody who doesnt know how too handle me

And being a fruiting body means im something thats meant too be eaten, meaning i have a deep desire too be essential too life and needed by others, sometimes leading too detriment becouse of my toxicity

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It may not be the best written, but its there, for all too see. I coined my own disability, a disability i both suffer from, and spent time and effort researching. I dont care if you dont beleave in me. Nobody has a right too name SOMEBODY ELSES minority group, especially not something ridiculous like what is often mispronounced as "ass burgers"

Im also not saying that my word should have been the one used, i firmly beleave that the people who are struggling with the condition should be the ones its named after, like the amber alert, it shouldnt be named after some random abuser. Imagine if the amber alert was named after her kidnapper instead like wtf

Obviously a condition or a virus should be named after a victim. Thats the entire point. Just like black people were named by the slave owners. A similar thing happened too autistic people.

A lot of us got bullyed back in school for being named "aspergers", its a huge deal, but aside from that its litterally the history of my people and we should NOT be associated with a nazi every time we want too say our name.

The person who accually did the work was the people who were suffering from the condition. I did the work in naming my writing about my own condition that im accually suffering from. Its a huge deal when the voices of minority groups are completely ignored, its the same problem of native americans getting renamed and whitewashed by europeans.

People with aspergers have existed for thousands, perhaps millions of years, we are a minority group just as much as women, black, or gay, we should not be treated like mere property and named after the man who enslaved and murdered us.

Excuse my language, but imagine if jewish people were named after hitler.

People who have aspergers often say from a young age that they knew there was something different about them, even if they didnt know the words. We are a ancient culture that has existed for as long as people have.

Religious people coined there own names, trans people coined there own name, non binary people coined there own name, each and every country got too coin there own name.

Aspergers and other disabilitys should be no different. We are a minority. We arent something too be cured and wiped out. I should have a story i can share my children, about how we should be proud too be aspergers, but what does our discovery come from? Nazism. Who are we named after? Some guy that tortured us.

Do you see the problem here? I want too be proud too be who i am. I didnt choose too be born this way. I didnt choose too get bullyed in schools or called "ass burger" as a insult, but i was.

All im saying is at the very least the name of human minority groups should be named by the people themselves, not by white supremacists.

Like, i dont even care about the "ego boost" part, thats not whats important, if they had created there own invention and named it after themself then i wouldnt complain, but the fact is: not only is it actively degrading for people like me suffering from these conditions too be named after the person who abused us, but on top of that its just plain goddamn confusing. What happens when you have somebody whos real name is asperger or parkington and they introduce themself? Now the word belongs too a minority group, so not only is it actively degrading when the person its named after turns out too be a nazi, but its actively confusing and effectively removed a name from the name pool for no good reason. Dr parkington might be a good person, but even so, it doesnt fix the inherent problem that minority groups deserve a name that will make us proud of our legacy for hundreds of years too come, something that wont be ruined if bad stuff comes out about the person its named after.

Im a minority, and i want too be proud of my legacy. I was US too be remembered for US. I dont want too be a statistic, and i dont want too be a "finding". Is THAT so bad? Too want too be treated like a goddamn human being? Too be able too name OURSELF like just about EVERY OTHER MINORITY GROUP? Your genuinely part of the problem. The fact that you would call us a "finding" like that genuinely makes me sick. We are people. Treat us like it FFS.

The fact that they think the doctor who "discovered" us deserved too be remembered more then WE do is genuinely sickening, like, just get that nazi line of thinking out of your head and accually treat us like people rather then mere "findings" PLEASE.

I litterally DID write about my own condition, and i would have coined it too if i was born back then with the money too publish my findings. You really underestimate how HARD it was too get your research out toot he public back then, even if you were a great researcher, the rich get richer. Without being able too sell books and papers, your research went away no matter how much time and effort you put in.

Genuinely, i promise you there were others with aspergers just like me who wrote about there conditions as far back at 1800s, but there work was lost simply becouse they had no way too publish and share there findings. Printers were expensive too non existent back then, and most things were word of mouth. HE. DID. NOT. DISCOVER. US.

Ive puts hours and hours in too researching my disability and making up my own words for it before i discovered the terms. Just becouse i have god awful grammer and writing doesnt erase all of my my time effort and self discovery.

Yes, i have experienced both systematic and normal ableism. I have been treated like a caged animal and forced too do things i would prefer not too elaborate on wholly on the basis of my disability.

Autism/aspergers IS a race and i have friends that have the condition who agree. You can NOT erase us. We are *REAL*.

Aspergers isnt a slur, and many people still prefer too be called aspergers as its what they knew growing up, ive been referring it as aspergers in this comment chain so you understand who im talking about, but usually i call it autism. The community [yes, we are one, just as much as any other minority] can often be torn on the subject, with some of us preferring one term or the other. My gripe with it is both that we should never have been named after him in the first place, its not something our community should have too argue about at all, this never should have happened too begin with. Some of us who feel like the term aspergers reminds us of all our opression, and others who prefer the word becouse we already internalized it as our identity. A lot of us are proud aspies. This doesnt change that being named after him too begin with was a horrible tragedy.

The name pool was neather argument nor excuse, i was mentioning it becouse it points out the fundamental flaw, especially with common names [becouse these are almost always last names] it creates a inherent issue were you end up with people named after a minority group they arent a part of, or they end up named after some horrible disease.

END OF VERY LONG RANT THING IM SORRY OMG IT JUST MAKES ME SO UPSET!!!

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This came up in a conversation and I edited it and made this rebloggable version.

I think the first and most important point is to learn how to spot abusive and manipulative behaviour and how to stay safe, set boundaries or get away.
I can't recommend Lundy Bancroft's book Why Does He Do That enough for this purpose! He leaked the abusers' playbooks. You'll gain invaluable insight even if your abuse didn't take place in the male-on-female domestic violence scenario that he is an expert on.

For mutual support that doesn't need experts but has some structure to it, I'm currently on a co-counseling kick, I love that method. Though I'm sure it's not the only one.

Whether there's structure or it's spontaneous, whether experts are present or not: What's important are boundaries and consent and that consent needs to apply to situations where you deal with triggering material or trauma - with everyone involved. So that includes people who just happen to be within earshot, their consent matters.

Talk about ways to check in with your body, to make sure you're as connected as you can be and that the conversation brings you closer to yourself, not further away. This also goes for everyone involved, including counselors.

Challenge ableism: No judgement or shaming for expressing emotions, feelings or thoughts, for fears or for laughing without a reason or yawning or crying or even raging/tantrums, or for channeling inner children or for switching (plural systems). Only when ppl do harm to selves or others should they be stopped, but even then in a respectful way.

If it's a setting with professional staff around, make sure they're safe to talk to in cases where such conversations went wrong or left someone feeling overwhelmed or having boundaries disrespected or needing additional support. Meaning, don't tell them they shouldn't have tried to talk about the thing. If it was a bad idea, they might come to that conclusion on their own.

For all my trauma therapy (individual and groups), I have had most of my best healing conversations when no therapists were around. It really works when ppl respect consent.

#trauma #TraumaRecovery #recovery #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #AbuseRecovery #ableism #AntiAbleism

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