barbara-pit for Cringetopia users

Also I hope people in here are decent about plurals. r/fakedisordercringe is another one of the "be normal debatebro-l" instances

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      10 months ago

      It's similar to the vulnerability that young eggs (trans people that haven't realised it yet) have to grooming by the far right.

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      They give them attention in a certain set of specific ways and then pipeline them into right wing online spaces and behaviours through various targeted grooming methods. I use the word grooming here because it's specifically the young teens that are most vulnerable to it and the main core of the people targeted.

      I don't know how the issue should be addressed. I'm just highlighting it as an issue. We do need to avoid invalidating self-diagnosis autism but also need to counter the shitheads.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          10 months ago

          It's ok I understand what you're getting at - trying to think about solutions to the problem while avoiding causing more problems in the process.

          I'm somewhat stuck with it. It's easy to see the problem and it's also easy to see how our usual tactics for countering it are insufficient without also hurting actual autistic people. It deserves some longterm thought, perhaps people will eventually start to find some solutions.