Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: January 06, 2026, 04:33:38 pm »Autism is a term originating uniquely from Western psychiatry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autism
Therefore you can simply respond that, as a decolonizer, you reject Western psychiatric terminology. If those using the term "autist" are "white", you can call them colonialists. If those using the term "autist" are "non-white", you can call them colonized.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autism
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The term autism was first introduced by Eugen Bleuler in his description of schizophrenia in 1911.[3] The diagnosis of schizophrenia was broader than its modern equivalent; autistic children were often diagnosed with childhood schizophrenia.[4] The earliest research that focused on children who would today be considered autistic was conducted by Grunya Sukhareva starting in the 1920s.[5] In the 1930s and 1940s, Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner described two related syndromes, later termed Asperger syndrome and infantile autism. Kanner thought that the condition he had described might be distinct from schizophrenia,[4][3] and in the following decades, research into what would become known as autism accelerated.[3]
Therefore you can simply respond that, as a decolonizer, you reject Western psychiatric terminology. If those using the term "autist" are "white", you can call them colonialists. If those using the term "autist" are "non-white", you can call them colonized.