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Honest Communication Kills Weaponized Incompetence
It’s only human to need help — but we have to be able to admit it.
Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist.
You can submit questions or suggest future entries in the series via my Tumblr ask box, or you can email questions to askdevonprice at gmail.
Today’s question is actually multiple questions — all wondering about how to reconcile the challenging realities of disability with the potential for damaging, sexist weaponized incompetence in housing situations:
For the uninitiated, let’s first address these questions by acknowledging what weaponized incompetence is. Broadly speaking, to weaponize incompetence is to pretend to be far worse at a task than you are genuinely capable of being, in order to ensure you are never asked to…
