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I have no particular opinion on the term "allistic," but what happened to the maxime that each group should get the final say on the terminology applied to that specific group?
Now we're saying to a specific group "hey, from now on we'll call you all this new term and you all can just shut up and deal with it, because you don't get a say?"
Seems like contradicting messages.
Allistics wouldn't have come up with a term to categorize themselves, because they already see themselves as "the normal" that doesn't need to be categorized. Save that, I'm not against them choosing a different word - but it would still be chosen by one or a few of them for an unchoosing vast majority.