It is. It refers to things being held in special regard in social arrangements, to an religious extent. The autism discourse, with all the memes and such, does more often than not include a cult-like adherence to beliefs around certain behaviours that anyone could display, shifting focus away from the developmental aspects of autism which are very much real and to diagnostic markers that are less than well defined but are used in clinical settings like: trouble at work/school/kindergarten [Y/N], and certain things the hiveminds of the world latch onto. There I think of people regarding dislike of the “big” light as being an indicator for autism(???).
There are also civil and secular religions, so it still applies. Think about the way we fetishize democracy, long covid or mold exposure. Really interesting topic.
That’s a very informal, essentially slang usage of the word. It’s so informal that it’s pointless to argue about whether it’s even correct. At any rate better word could certainly have been chosen.
People treat words like divine tangible streams of meaning when they’re just sounds we make
Completely unrelated, seems like you have a bug up your butt about something else. Also I’m pretty sure nobody thinks that either, sorry a prescriptivist upset you but that has no relation to what I said.
My tip: don’t argue with people who know not even the terms they are attempting to criticize the use of.
+also they seem to be using a sockpuppet account to upvote themselves and write comments
I love how autism has become this fetishized thing that you slap onto all people operating outside of expected parameters.
Everything is an autistic trait when you go looking for autistic traits.
That’s exactly what I’d expect an autistic person to say.
I don’t think that’s what fetishized means.
It is. It refers to things being held in special regard in social arrangements, to an religious extent. The autism discourse, with all the memes and such, does more often than not include a cult-like adherence to beliefs around certain behaviours that anyone could display, shifting focus away from the developmental aspects of autism which are very much real and to diagnostic markers that are less than well defined but are used in clinical settings like: trouble at work/school/kindergarten [Y/N], and certain things the hiveminds of the world latch onto. There I think of people regarding dislike of the “big” light as being an indicator for autism(???).
yeah, I don’t think that applies here
There are also civil and secular religions, so it still applies. Think about the way we fetishize democracy, long covid or mold exposure. Really interesting topic.
Makes one wonder if vampires are autistic.
Autistim is the new ‘touched by god’.
That’s a very informal, essentially slang usage of the word. It’s so informal that it’s pointless to argue about whether it’s even correct. At any rate better word could certainly have been chosen.
Huh?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fetishism
Entry 1. and 3., I don’t think you know what you are talking about.
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Literally not
Completely unrelated, seems like you have a bug up your butt about something else. Also I’m pretty sure nobody thinks that either, sorry a prescriptivist upset you but that has no relation to what I said.
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Either you’re using “literally” in a non-literal fashion, or you’re using it to make your statement even more incorrect.
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My tip: don’t argue with people who know not even the terms they are attempting to criticize the use of. +also they seem to be using a sockpuppet account to upvote themselves and write comments
Maybe, making it as incorrect as possible serves to prove a point which makes statement phrased correctly for the goal in mind?