A surprising number of neurodivergent adults have lived in a near constant state of low grade existential overwhelm since childhood without ever realizing that other people do not experience life this way.
I think some of you forgot that autistic people sometimes act strange and say things that are poorly worded and speak with incorrect tone and misunderstand or miss social cues because they are autistic
George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.
It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.
The autistic urge to not register red flags as red flags because you’re so used to people misinterpreting your harmless behaviours and you don’t want to do that to anyone else, so you go *overboard* trying to find acceptable explanations for other people’s unacceptable behaviour.
The fact that women can have their nudes leaked and have their whole career go down the drain, but men can have a full-blown rape allegation and still end up as president? Yeah, I don’t wanna hear a single person argue that gender inequality doesn’t exist.