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Uhm. I usually call other humans “they”. How else I am supposed to call them?


Sorry I was not clear, please do not refer autistic people as “group”, autism is a spectrum and each autistic individual can be very different. Not all of us are emotionally unstable. This kind of generalisation is pretty harmful.


Again, the OP was not using a collective noun to refer to autistic people as a group, their post was about a single individual with autism.


Seems to be a miscommunication. I use they as a gender neutral way of referring to individuals as the English language doesn't offer a better alternative.




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