Richard Stallman resigns from MIT over Epstein comments

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Originally Posted by Benanov [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As someone who is also somewhat neuroatypical it's only a matter of time before I use the wrong word or misread a signal and then 'they' will come for me, too - to hang my job and my positions as a trophy on the wall in some imaginary struggle against Patriarchy, or something.

Well, I'll say this: that's definitely not a typical (and also, I'd argue, not rational) fear.

In the real world autistics and other atypical people don't get hired without the company knowing they're a little off. If they use the wrong word and offend people (something neurotypical people do too), people don't just jump to "they're evil!", they usually think "oh that's Bob, he's just weird like that". If they truly do get offended, they (or your boss in a worst case scenario) will explain the issue to you, you'll have a chance to apologize and explain you didn't mean tot offend, and life goes on.

So in feeling like you're one wrong word away from life ruination, presumably because of the imaginary "PC Police" in your fantasies ... you definitely count as atypical [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]