went to a brand new salon and i was nervous. it was nice we were talking about why biracial children with white moms are so maladjusted, then we started talking about why so many black men date white women who dont do the work to educated themsleves on raising a black child, THEN (im getting to it) i pulled out a quote from the book (i was finishing it for tomorrow) about how the colonized man desires the colonizer position in society his job his house his wife, ect. we ended up talking about the book for a good bit before we went back to shit talking white people. it was fun, they all kept telling my what job they thought I should have.they were very nice, they want me to run for public office. I told them I used to want that too but id prefer to do labor organizing to put power directly in the hands of the people and i got a chorus of agreement. the absolutely did try to convert me to christianity but they were nice about it. and its not a salon experience if someone doesn't try to convert me. i even mention ive dated a white woman when we were talking about how crazy they were and no one batted an eye. no one even tried to make me get a more feminine hairstyle too. they were being mean to this autistic women, so that sucked so i talked with her until they separated us but i got her number, she a lot younger (not a minor) but seems nice. I told them i was autistic too and they tried to tell me i had Aspergers but i explained all of that to them and they got it. so all in all a lot better than the transphobe who made me feel unsafe last time.
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the short version is i explained that the term was outdated and had nazi origins and where it came from, and that autism just looks really different and ect.
Holy shit, I had no idea! Stopped using the term a long ago because I knew it was outdated, but now I'll have this in my back pocket if it ever comes up in conversation.
yeah people stop using it pretty quick after that
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im no the autism authority but 1, yes Aspergers just mean autistic, everyone still using aspergers is either innocently misinformed or is an elon musk type aspie supremacist imo. and most people still say the autism spectrum some people on tic tok dont like it but idk.
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Asperger's is generally considered a deprecated term because lots of countries and the classification standards have abandoned it in favour of just being under the umbrella term of autism (since Asperger's isn't actually a seperate condition anyway.)
Asperger's often gets applied in a really oppressive way and/or in a self-stigmatising way because it signifies that you're one of the "good ones" or you're "normal enough" to pass or other gross things like that.
Hans Asperger, whom Asperger's is named after despite being the second person to describe autism (the first being Grunya Sukhareva but she was a woman and a Soviet citizen so—double ick!! Best to award the namesake of the condition to the Nazi collaborationist instead. Oh, uh, spoiler alert...) and Hans Asperger was a Nazi collaborationist who used the term Asperger's to define autistic children who were "capable" of integrating into mainstream society and being productive so he "saved" those children while consigning the others to eugenics.
See Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Sheffer for further reading.