Skeptic-skeptical

 "Skeptics" will always throw us under the bus at every opportunity, because the fastest and easiest way to virtue-signal oneself as intellectual, right-thinking, enlightened, and progressive is to scapegoat neurodivergent people. As long as they receive social rewards for scapegoating us, they have an incentive to keep doing it.

New prison, same as the old prison

Pathologization and criminalization are two manifestations of the same coercive process. Treating people who deviate from social norms "as patients, not as criminals" isn't as big a change as the people advocating it would have you believe.

Intersectional pathologization

 It is right and necessary to point out the racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and other bigotries and oppressions, past and present, that exist and have existed in science and medicine.

Also remember that many of these oppressions take/took the form of treating the affected populations the way that disabled people are treated.

Don't take away from discussions of racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and transphobia in science and medicine, but also remember the thread of ableism and pathologization that weaves through them.

Healthy, wholesome abuse

Stop calling people, relationships, and actions "unhealthy" when what you mean is "abusive."

Health is not a moral obligation. Refraining from abusive behavior absolutely is.

An individual's state of health or unhealth is not necessarily their choice. Abusive behavior is always the abuser's choice.

Someone else's choices about their own health are no one else's business. Someone else's choices to abuse other people are everyone's business.

Harassing or assaulting your employees, spouse, children, or other people you have power over isn't an "unhealthy dynamic," it's abuse.

Unsurprising developments

 Louis CK built his entire career on hatred of developmentally disabled people, went on long tirades about his "right" to use the r-slur, and once referred to a mother of a child with Down Syndrome as a "(r-word)-producing (c-word)."

Why are people surprised that an ableist misogynist turned out to be a sexual predator?

People with Subhumanity

 Imagine the following exchange:

"We're inclusive of both people and subhumans."

"Wait, 'subhumans'? That's really offensive!"

"Well, what word should I use instead? Inferiors? Not-people?"

"No! Those words aren't better!"

"Then what word should I use instead? What's considered the politically correct term these days?"

"You shouldn't use any word to call people subhuman, because you should treat all people as people."

"This social justice warrior stuff is going too far. I'm all for using respectful language, but how are we supposed to let people know who's a person and who isn't?"

"All people are people! You don't need words to call people not-people because they are, in fact, people!"

"So what word should I use INSTEAD?"

This is pretty close to the argument I got into about "mental age." People really wanted me to provide an alternative term for "People who aren't really the age that they are" or wanted me to approve alternative terms like "developmental level." There isn't a non-bigoted alternative term, because the concept is a bigoted concept.