Why is autistic used pejoratively? Whatever happened to calling

I think it started with minecraft? but yeah it makes no sense.

>>380595
Because it's not used the same way as retard.
>retard
does something stupid, in the sense that they lack intelligence
>autist
does something stupid, in the sense that they focus highly on something insignificant

BTW I don't use either of these terms as insults.

>>380595
Autism is a choice.

>>380722
This doesn't make sense.

In the early days of the internet, the cool way to claim special victim status was to self-diagnose yourself as having Asperger's or (high-functioning) autism. As most of these people had the amount of social graces you'd expect, "aspy", "sperg", "autist" and the like came to be used as insults for the socially incompetent.

On /a/, this process was accelerated by regular posts claiming various anime girls are autistic.

>>380595
It's the same as with "nigger" and "faggot". Neither of those "expressions" imply to historical minority of humanity that much anymore. Our X parents are carrying those, however how it is Really with Z. We are a generation of mindsets and not that much of "minorities".

>>380825
>caring about whether stuff makes sense
Don't be so autistic about it

Autism hits too close to home! That's why it's so popular.
This thread should be on /qa/ though.

>>380876
/qa/ is more concerned with an imaginary culture war and bitching about /pol/ to talk about meta anymore.

Autistic people often have difficulty in communication and are slow in registering sarcasm

>>380617
It actually started with Homestuck.