“Researchers measured autistic people against neurotypical expectations and called every difference a deficit. They tested empathy by measuring in-group preference and missed commitment to universal fairness. They measured creativity by counting the number of ideas and missed originality. They saw moral consistency and called it rigidity. They saw deep engagement and called it rigidity. They saw sensory richness and called it disorder.”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-different/202601/what-the-world-got-wrong-about-autistic-people
What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits made them miserable. All wrong.

Psychology Today
@peter And THAT is why so many despise NT people....

@UndeadMinotaur I would like to say «despise being despised by» to take a step back out of the vicious circle 🙃

What is pwASD? I can’t readily find it and I don’t now what the «pw» prefix is meant to say.

@peter Brilliant suggestion! Yeah that is actually the core of it. Not despise of the people, but of their attitude/behavior against oneself.

pw=people with, this is a common abbreviation used in many contexts.

ASD=autism spectrum 'disorder' (though, now that I type it out, I might reconsider the abbreviation)

@UndeadMinotaur Ah, got it. So «pw» is a bit like the «being disabled» vs. «living •with• disability» – you live with it, you are not defined by it.

PDA has an even worse abbreviation than ASD: •pathological• demand avoidance. So some suggest to say pervasive drive for autonomy instead. Yeah, I guess there are quite many abbreviations that should be rethought …

@peter I'd say pw avoids the whole being or living with debate. And yeah, suggestions welcome :D