https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mums-blast-home-bargains-offensive-25541658
Here's the thread because bongland journos can't be fricked to link it.
I'd say don't wear it unless you're ND. I'm neurodivergent.
The issue is that the language has been appropriated by the NT community to mean a tantrum, and so now, the neurodiverse community have no language that expresses the biological phenomena that they actually experience during a βmeltdownβ.
Myself, I think the term 'meltdown' is offensive to the victims of nuclear reactor accidents and autists need to stop appropriating mutant culture.
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I've never met an autist with a diagnosis who cares about this shit.
It's universally the parents of rslurs or people pretending to be rslurred for attention.
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Sometimes people who were diagnosed with autism but are barely even autists get offended by it, but yeah it's almost always the mothers who make having an neurodivergent child their personality. The actual severe autists have bigger issues to worry about. A meltdown isn't even just an neurodivergent thing so you know that they're fishing for things to be offended by to get attention
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