They didn't take another part of who you are (for example, being autistic) and point to it to negate or dismiss your ability to know yourself. That's the difference.
While you were doubted, it wasn't another part of your identity, who you are, that had them say "Well you can't possibly know anything about yourself..."
Like... queer ppl are distrusted around children a lot, sometimes assumed to be pedophiles or not safe to have around b/c they are queer. And a hetero person can say that hetero ppl are distrusted around young children often too, but the thing is, it's not for being hetero. They don't bring up heterosexuality as the problem or as being innately tied to pedophilia.
There's a lot of examples where you can have similar results but that doesn't negate the differences in privilege and oppression dynamics involved. (the whole "but men/white ppl/etc get blah blah blah too" thing)
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Date: 2009-07-29 16:38 (UTC)From:They didn't take another part of who you are (for example, being autistic) and point to it to negate or dismiss your ability to know yourself. That's the difference.
While you were doubted, it wasn't another part of your identity, who you are, that had them say "Well you can't possibly know anything about yourself..."
Like... queer ppl are distrusted around children a lot, sometimes assumed to be pedophiles or not safe to have around b/c they are queer. And a hetero person can say that hetero ppl are distrusted around young children often too, but the thing is, it's not for being hetero. They don't bring up heterosexuality as the problem or as being innately tied to pedophilia.
There's a lot of examples where you can have similar results but that doesn't negate the differences in privilege and oppression dynamics involved. (the whole "but men/white ppl/etc get blah blah blah too" thing)