Neurodiversity Movement v Gender Ideology Movement
If you've read my last piece you will know what I'm taking about. If not, I explain here what I did anyway. You can read the previous piece in the link provided at the bottom of this article - be prepared, it's a nose dive down a rabbit hole into a dangerous mentality told from the perspective of someone deep into it. I use a fictionalised character in a comparative story-telling of a radical movement we see today but in a different context. It's utterly absurd, and yet it is real today for women.
In my story-telling, I describe it as a NeuroTypical Movement that is encroaching on Autistic Rights and inciting violence against autistics who are advocating for themselves.
I use this as a comparison of the Trans Rights Movement AKA Gender Ideology, that is encroaching on Women's Rights and inciting violence against women who are advocating for themselves.
Of course, there is no such thing as a NeuroTypical Movement, I made it up. However, there is a Neurodiversity Movement and a lot of similar themes occur in the Trans Movement and the Neurodiversity Movement, like Self ID (trans movement) and Self Diagnosis (Autism movement) and acceptance and understanding of differences and diversity. Both begin from good intentions and appeal to morals.
The Neurodiversity Movement is never demanding removal of neurotypical spaces (though there is frequent demonising of NTs in some online spaces because we've often felt misunderstood by them and we’ve struggled due to this) but we just want equal opportunities in society and for our needs to be met. This requires understanding from neurotypicals (and vice versa) about how we view the world and how we may need accommodations making in order to flourish. This requires communication and autistic people are more than happy to talk about these things and have open discussions. In fact, we love to do this. It also includes studies and research into autism and this is another thing we love - we are often obsessed with them and devour the information and share it. But here's an interesting part - we heavily criticise it too. We think critically about it. We consider the harms as well as the benefits, even when it comes from our favourite, trusted sources and popular autism publishers. We don't hesitate to dissect it and tell them it's not good enough, it's ignoring a bigger picture or it needs to redirect slightly.
Trans people need acceptance and understanding too, but the Trans Rights Movement is asking for women's accommodations to be removed during the process. They also try to shut down discussions and demonise anyone who tries to have them. This is the opposite of communicating needs. It has created a hostile environment where there is fighting, ignorance and incitement for violence against those who do not conform to their beliefs. And when research and literature comes out, they brand it transphobic if it doesn't fit their message. They shut it down. And when their much loved organisations publish work that is poor - they don't criticise it or dissect it and give constructive feedback on how to improve it or change direction. They praise it irregardless of the clear harms in it. They ignore the problems and even bury them.
The purpose of my article was to reveal just how toxic the mentality of the movement has become, and how obvious the harm is when shown in a different light using another identity politics scenario: Neurotypicals vs Autistics.
It highlights the disregard for other humans needs and rights to safe spaces, autonomy and freedom to choose.
The Trans Rights Movement has taken over a lot of autism communities and it's not suprising since a lot of us are LGBT+, gender nonconforming, marginalised, often seen as different or 'alien'. We have some similar struggles and our movements are about (or at least started about) acceptance for being different and celebration of diversity. Moral causes for sure.
But the differences about how the two act are stark. But we were already in too deep. Trying to see through the chaos now and untangle ourselves from it is overwhelming. So many of us have lost our autism communities through trying to highlight these issues once we've realised it. We have been villianised by the (often only) tribe we've ever felt we had that accepted us in all our weird and wonderful ways. We've been eliminated and as we look back in at the mess we see so much harm, not only to women and girls, but to autistic people and children, from all backgrounds, generations, orientations, sex and genders.
Trying to get through to these echo chambers is one of the most traumatic, upsetting and maddening things.
As a demographic, it's like we've lost our free thought. I guess, we want to be respectful to the trans movement so if they aren't criticising it themselves then we're not going to. But the TRAs will never criticise it. So, we need to step up and do what autistics are good at: holding no bars, just dissecting information and being honest about it no matter if others don't appear to agree. You always used to be able to rely on an autistic to tell you the truth. But now, so many are enthralled to gender ideology they have lost their voice and critical thinking. They've become puppets and robots. Seems they've become the very stereotype people always said we were: robots.
So many of us have given up and left in silence. So many of us have found new groups to join. So many of us have distanced ourselves from autism in general as we don't recognise what we are seeing anymore and we want nothing to do with it. Some of us are up against the tide frequently, by choice or not by choice. We are all ages, sexual orientations, gender diverse, cis, trans, LGBTQIA+, diagnosed and self diagnosed, children, parents, friends, professionals and laymans.
If you are autistic and struggling, you are not alone, there are autistics out there that are aware of this problem and standing against it. This is me reaching out with love.
I will also be publishing a dissection of my Satirical piece to reveal all the hidden meanings and comparisons. If you are not clued up on neurodiversity landscapes, gender ideology and gender critical, some of it may have gone over your head. I will show how every single ridiculous horror show that I put in there is a direct comparison of what is happening today to women and autistics due to extreme gender ideology.
Here is the original piece, an absurd Satirical story-telling from the perspective of an ideologue. Be prepared to feel uncomfortable and offended. If you ARE offended, then you see the problem.
https://auntieautism.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/the-trans-brainary-fallacy-that-is-actually-real/
https://auntieautism.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/neurodiversity-movement-v-gender-ideology-movement/