While this totally applies to other marginalized groups, I’d like to remind everyone House is specifically talking about an autistic child here.
Remember that.
This. THIS is what bothers me with the “We just want to be seen as normal, using the word Queer is Bad” thing.
My queer, autistic, ADHD, traumatized, disabled ass is never going to be “normal”, and that’s okay.
Yep, same here. And I don’t want the lines redrawn to make me “normal” the way some LGBT folks do, because even if you define us as part of “normal”… the very existence of normal requires an outgroup that’s defined as “abnormal”, and what happens to them? (Exactly what House said… cruelty, possibly disguised as “help”, possibly not, but cruelty nevertheless.)