@A_Silent_Child lol i struggled to form a sense of self because allistic people taught me that my natural self was something to be corrected. but of course, it’s always our fault /s
“Autistic” is not a bad word.
It’s a neutral, descriptive term that is very much preferred by autistic people ourselves.
Much like Deaf people and Blind people, the majority of Autistic people want to be called “autistic person,” not “person with autism.”
@DiarySociopath@commaficionado for me it’s kind of a surface level pattern recognition of facial expressions and so on... but even that gets tough because we all know people’s facial expressions aren’t always reflective of their emotions.
@raccorns As a Non-Native I feel it must be "I'm SORRY, I won't do it again" and educate everybody in your community. That is the only way to build respectful relationships.
autistic trans people, their worldview would fall apart. so they put us in a box of “dumb babies brainwashed by the trans agenda”. it’s real easy to dismiss people’s arguments if you preemptively decide nothing they say about their own lives reality is true!