Aspie supremacists

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We Need to Talk About Aspie Supremacists

Over-valuing certain abilities means looking down on people who don’t share them. Aspie supremacy is the ideology that follows from taking this to an extreme: ‘aspies’ have extraordinary powers which not only make their existence worthwhile, but make them better than other people.

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On Autistic “Super Powers”

I think that a lot of the problems people have with the idea of autism as a super power is the idea that it elevates the autistic person above everyone else, rather than the super power being about this one particular aspect of them that is special.

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