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apical_dendrite an hour ago

I can tell you from personal experience as a person with a physical disability that it's still very much a stigma.

It's also very much possible for something to be both a stigma and an identity. In fact, the stigmatization can make the identity stronger.

Detrytus an hour ago | parent [-]

Well, some kinds of disability still are a stigma, but here on HN neurodiversity/autism is celebrated as some kind of superpower, basically.

apical_dendrite an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm aware. See for instance, VC Arielle Zuckerberg's comment that when deciding which founders to fund she looks for "a little of the rizz and a little of the tis" with "rizz" referring to charisma and "tis" to autism.

One could argue that mythologizing a particular characteristic is itself a form of stigma.

jay_kyburz an hour ago | parent [-]

I'm all tis and no rizz