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People involved in the neurodiversity movement have long used the concept of “aspie supremacy” (coined by Mel Baggs) to denote a certain ideology that may superficially look like neurodivergent liberation politics but is in fact anathema to our liberation. As I understand it, the aspie supremacist is defined by the way in which they reclaim what they often call ‘Asperger’s syndrome’, ‘high-functioning autism’, or being an ‘aspie’. (It is important to note that these terms are now outdated, but we will use ‘aspie’ here because we are describing people who often self-identify as such.) At base, Fergus Murray sums aspie supremacy up well when they write that it is based on the idea that ‘aspies’ somehow “have extraordinary powers which not only make their existence worthwhile, but make them better than other people.” Most often, this project is based on them showing that their form of autistic cognition is superior to that of autistic people who also have cognitive or intellectual disabi

William Hogarth (1697-1764). The Rake’s Progress , Plate VIII “Scene in Bedlam”. People involved in the neurodiversity movement have long used the concept of “aspie supremacy” ( coined by Mel Baggs) to denote a certain ideology that may superficially look like neurodivergent liberation politics but is in fact anathema to our liberation. As I understand it, the aspie supremacist is defined by the way in which they reclaim what they often call ‘Asperger’s syndrome’, ‘high-functioning autism’, or being an ‘aspie’. (It is important to note that these terms are now out

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