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As one of those people, no, probably not. At best, they consulted the loudest few autistic p... people with autism they could find, and decided that represented all of us. (I'm in a couple of other minority groups, it's a common pattern.)

Specifically, I'm the "parse everything hyperliterally unless I consciously try not to" type, which means I do not see the problem with many of these, and just have to remember a list of words I can't use professionally.

Amusingly, most of the list of words I'd always been told I couldn't use professionally get used all the fucking time.

Worse than that, the list itself perpetuates the idea that autism is associated with retardation.

Can you explain this a bit more or give an example? I'm curious about this.

It is like requiring people to jog at the job, and then say that being wheelchair bound isn't an excuse to skip the jogging exercise. Some people have a much harder time with abstractions and words, they have learned the ones on the left, remapping all of that to the words on the right is a ton of work and maybe some of them will never manage to do it.

That's really insightful!