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I identify as weird and the recent political trend makes me uncomfortable (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago by webghost0101@sopuli.xyz to c/autism@lemmy.world

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Just had to out this somewhere and this is probably the most safe space for it.

I am an ultra left anarchist so i support any progress shift in us political polls and i do get it.

I dont and wont ask people to stop using effective political memes. But whenever i see a top comment labeled these bad people as weird, i feel like i too would not be accepted, even if i know thats not what its about.

Sorry.

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[–] Droechai@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Could be people who got mocked for being weird growing up, owning the term and letting go of their masking of (quite common) neurodiversity and now feeling threatened by people who start to equal weird with hateful or bigoted.

In a world where weird equals horrible, how does that colour those that call themselves weird?

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[–] amio@kbin.run 1 point 2 years ago

Yeah, and none of that is new in any kind of sense, but suddenly now it's an issue with this specific word.

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