Politically Incorrect Psychology Terms
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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April 25, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Desirving listeners, today I want to talk about problematic terms in psychology. |
| 0:05.5 | The spark for this episode was that someone emailed in telling us to not use the term Asperger's. |
| 0:16.4 | And I think what happened, it was, the email was addressed to Bob and to me. |
| 0:23.0 | And I think from my memory, Bob in an episode used the term Asperger's. |
| 0:28.6 | It could have been me that used the term, but I'm not sure. |
| 0:31.4 | Or we read an email that used the term. |
| 0:34.2 | The reason why I don't think it was me is because over 10 years ago, the field of |
| 0:40.0 | psychology decided to use the term autism spectrum for a variety of reasons. And I believe that |
| 0:46.9 | I've been using that terminology ever since. I can see myself using the term Asperger's with |
| 0:53.0 | someone on the autism spectrum who identifies as being Asperger's. |
| 0:57.8 | I will talk to people like that. |
| 1:00.2 | Like if I had a client, for example, I wouldn't correct them, right, if that's how they self-identify. |
| 1:05.3 | Or some experts still use that term. |
| 1:09.2 | The reason why we don't want to use the term Asperger's is because |
| 1:13.6 | there was a Nazi physician by the name of Asperger who was responsible for imprisoning and killing |
| 1:23.7 | many, many people who we believe were probably on the autism spectrum during World |
| 1:30.3 | War II and before World War II. So obviously, referring to these individuals with that name is |
| 1:37.9 | problematic, hurtful, offensive, right? So this all started when I was preparing for tomorrow. I'm going to be |
| 1:47.3 | recording a podcast with Bob, and I was going over emails to possibly read on the air. And I came |
| 1:55.7 | across this email because it was addressed to Bob and me. That's why I think it might have been one of us or Bob, I don't know, |
| 2:03.2 | but I was going over this email and thinking about how to respond. But as I went down a mini |
| 2:10.3 | rabbit hole, I realized that the topic was bigger than just a short section of an episode with Bob. I started thinking about all the various |
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