T-Shirt slogan. Offensive?

[inpotentia]

So, I've kinda wanted an Aspie t-shirt for a while and so far "autistic kids rock" is my favourite. I think it's funny 'cause it's true in at least 2 ways, as a verb and as an adjective

Comments

[issac_spinoza]

I personally find it funny.
I don't think that NT would necessarily even get the double entendre inherant within the slogan. However, to increase its generality, and to make it more politically correct I would say "people with autism rock"

[old_cutter_john]

I wouldn't want to be politically correct. And I think of myself as autistic, not as having autism. I reject the medical model, as do many of us.

Interesting paradox there. I seem to be acting as an agent of political correctness - the political correctness of this community. Oh, well... can't be helped.

[issac_spinoza]

hmm... ok, how do you feel about this change. I hope that it is more suitable. people who are austic rock. My intent was place emphasis upon the person part. being autistic / autism is only part of who I am.

[old_cutter_john]

I find it cumbersome. But even the original, "Autistic kids rock," isn't something I'd wear. I like it, but it's just not my kind of slogan, even with the double meaning. I have a few shirts that say, "Autistic Activist," and I wear them occasionally, but not often.

[conuly]

I find it draws more attention to the autism, not less. It breaks the normal rules of speech, and when you do that you call attention to the thing. We do not refer to you as a "person who is male", but a man. Nor do we refer to you as a "person with red hair", but as a red-haired man, or a redhead (or whatever color your hair is). And the same thing for autism. Autism is one part of who I am, but it's a big part - at least as important as my gender (I am a woman, not a female person), my handedness (I'm a lefty, not somebody who prefers to use her left hand), my race and nationality (I'm a white American, not a person who lives in the US and who happens to be white), or anything else.