• Deestan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “I know that social cues are hard for you and you are trying your best and I can’t expect you to get it right on the first try, but I will shame you when you do and react like you didn’t even try or did it on purpose.”

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      1 year ago

      “or react like you didnt even try”

      tbh, they are often in the same boat with autistic people. normies are allowed to be offended and not be able to make the connection to autism.

      they should practice kindness but so should the rest of us.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks for pointing that out. I wanted to edit in something like that, but it felt like rambling.

        It’s frustrating when people react badly to what they incorrectly percieve as hostility, but it’s not on them to read my mind and know the full context.

        It’s extra frustrating when people know but still get insulted by what they on an intellectual level know isn’t an insult. It’s human nature and it takes practice to manage that.

        All in all, people may even both know and be patient but still find my behavior exhausting. And it’s unfair to expect them to bend around me.

        This is why I’m annoyed when people protest at any mention of “masking” as if it’s evil. It’s not. It’s just basic courtesy to not confuse or upset people. Just be aware of how much you can do it healthily is all.

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          What invites me to be resentful is the fact I spend all day every day doing theater to keep these mopes comfortable, and asking the slightest deviation in their behavior is seen as such a huge deal.

          I wear a mask all day every day. I constantly push myself to behave in ways unnatural to me, to fit in.

          It’s so exhausting. All human interaction is like typing with chopsticks for me.

  • glassware@lemmy.world
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    This is why I can’t do online left wing spaces any more. They talk the talk about ableism, but then its “why can’t you boycott the only food you can eat, just eat something else”, “you could talk to service workers if you wanted to, you just think you’re better than them”.

    Then sharing a video of people with their fingers in their ears at a black music festival with a caption calling them racists, when they’re clearly autistic people enjoying the festival but having sensory problems.

    I blame the popular understanding/misunderstanding of neurodiversity. People think autism is just a personality type.

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      Idk what kind of left wing spaces yall find. Maybe if everyone didn’t think hexbear was the boogeyman they’d realize how accepting they are

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            1 year ago

            I looked through your comments to understand why you reacted like that, and I realized you’re either wildly politically illiterate or you can’t do math. When your supporting argument for Wyoming being underrepresented is “they have 1 congress person” instead of an argument about the number per population it’s kinda hard to tell which it is. The talk about the state being “big” makes me suspect it’s the former, however.

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        Yep, super accepting, especially of Russian imperialism: “Instead of seeking peace our fascist government in Ukraine funds death squads in Russia to do terrorist attacks making the war worse”.

        And Chinese killings: “The Tiananmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.”

        “As for the Uyghur thing, even western media has largely abandoned that point since it was too easy to see that no one was being killed”.

        Those are just a few heavily upvoted comments that I found within 5 minutes of opening their page.