Self-identifying as autistic or neurodivergent for special privileges. By Melissa Chen.
You guys realize that the leftist reaction to the Jason Arday case is going to incentivize more and more people to just “self-ID” as autistic or neurodivergent right?
Why? Because it instantly unlocks two-tier judgment. There will be massive upside to identify as “neurodivergent” and no downside. It’s a choose-your-own-adventure but this time you’re just choosing your own alibi.
No one challenges the claim, and you might even score an endorsement from figures like autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen.
The same excesses that distorted the trans movement will now come for “neurodivergence.” Increasingly, mental health status is treated as a moral free pass — permission to act like an asshole or commit crimes (see the Lindsay Clancy case).
Commenters:
It is another easy way to be a “special victim” to gain status. …
It started with race. Blacks especially were placed above reproach. Questioning motives or actions was de facto evidence of racism. Fraudsters looted government and private money at will for decades (see gov’t grift and failed charter schools in Detroit). Now its Somalians in MN. …
Almost every time a black person kills someone or does something despicable in UK their family is talking about ‘mental health problems’ …
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” – Orwell’s Animal Farm. In today’s context the left is creating a society where the rule of law and moral accountability are no longer universal. …
People at all sorts of left-wing gatherings feel compelled to begin their statements with a list of their personality disorders as if they are credentials- “As a Trans, neurodivergent, climate justice advocate, I…” …
The fallout will ultimately fall on the shoulders of genuine autistic people who will gain an unfair reputation as liars and cheats. …
Indeed, it’s already happening. Virtually everyone at my workplace now claims to be neurodivergent – the new bisexual for white people. A largely unprovable, unchallengeable identity that hands them a few victim points in a hierarchy where they otherwise start with a deficit. …
Practically everyone in my wife’s older millennial friends group has a “neurodivergent” child. Many of them self-identify themselves / their spouses as “neurodivergent”. My niece says >80% of her 6th grade class gets extra time on tests for neurodivergence. …
Please find me someone trying to pass as white. It grants you absolutely nothing except being put at the bottom of the list. …
Hollywood kids are increasingly gender-divergent, because their parents have worked too hard at racial politics which, while supplying their own moral high, left their kids with fewer privileges. Now their kids need to be in some divergent groups to enjoy society’s special treatments.
