[sophyphreak]

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It always fascinates me how much people bend over backwards to create euphemisms for "Autistic people" or, in this case, "high IQ, STEM-focused, Autistic people." Even "people with Autistic traits" would be fine. A large part of me thinks we would be better off to be specific, and another large part of me thinks this pattern reinforces stereotype of Autistic incompetence. (Stereotype of Autistic incompetence: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8813809/)

[bomewish]

feeling massive scope creep in the use of this term 'autistic' of late... It's gone from a personality type we might call 'nerdiness' (and many entailments) to this kind of quasi-medicalised definition.