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Prescriptivism being bullshit aside, how is an autistic person calling their interests autistic comparable to using that word as a slur?
The word autistic has a definition and using it to define a type of inanimate objects is the incorrect use of it. Whether it's being as a slur or not I'll concede is a bit up for debate, but willfully taking a word that identifies a demographic based on how their brains work and using it to categorize games feels dirty and a bit slurry. Going back, the word retard wasn't a slur until it was used incorrectly enough times that it became one. This particular case is not bad compared to other uses of the word autistic that I've seen so casually thrown about often synonymous with being dumb.