"You are not an 'autistic person' you are a 'person with autism'!"
I'm about to be the person who feeds you to a bear.
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I’m noticing a pattern in demanding autistic and disabled people “deal” with difficult and often triggering situations because we’re in a society, but not understanding or being willing to help us have a place in that society.
Noise cancelling headphones only go so far, y’all.
Every abled and allistic person’s solution to us explaining our lives in a hostile world is “wear noise cancelling headphones” or “don’t leave the house then.” They don’t include us in their society because they put all the burden on us and never lift a finger themselves.
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As an autistic person, it continuously frustrates and confuses me how much allistic bullshit just gets folded into expected culture.
When someone asks how you're doing, they don't care.
They just want to hear "I'm holding up" at the absolute WORST. Never actually how you are doing.
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I am honestly so furious with being alive and the state of society.
I'm exhausted by being told that my blood sweat and tears poured into being a good person makes me wrong for demanding the same of others I'm tired or being told I'm wrong for not laying on the table for others to feast on me.
I Will not make myself less
I will not make myself stupid and idiotic to fit in with the dramatic childish incomprehensible actions of those around me. I am allowing myself to be right and others to be wrong.
I have paid my pound of flesh being wrong, just because the majority feels different then me doesn't make me wrong. The majority Is a lynch mob full of selfish and greedy people who are spineless and allow that lack of spine to drive their decisions, and I am expected to bow to being spineless because my confrontation and my willingness to healthy communication bothers people and I'm sick of it.
I respect boundaries, I don't respect those who fear being uncomfortable
With no discomfort there is no growth and I'm tired of feeling like the only well rounded person in a room full of children.
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Allistics are all behind autistic people until you do autistic things that autistic people do like rehearsing facial expressions and talking to yourself and speaking in the "wrong" tone and not wanting to be touched and saying the exact same words that someone just said to you back to them and liking your stuff a specific way and rewatching the same episode of the same show 10 times in a row to self soothe and blinking too fast and verbally stimming or stimming at all and not having the "correct" reaction to things. Then you're "weird" and "rude" and "a control freak." It's all, "It doesn't matter that you're autistic as long as you're autistic in a way that is identical to how allistic people behave. I don't care as long as I'm never reminded that it exists."
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Some Neurotypicals are just awful people.
Really disrespectful and incredibly ignorant, ableist people.
My parents had bought tickets to Shrek the Musical. We were enjoying the first half and I’d taken a few pictures, but at the intermission, someone came over and told me to stop filming. I said I was only taking pictures but was told nothing was allowed. This wasn’t advertised anywhere or mentioned at any point, and I felt really bad about being told off, but I obviously put my phone down.
Then the show started up again. Unfortunately, being autistic, I really struggled when I didn’t have my phone in my hand. I tried searching by feel in my bag, and eventually found my stim toy. It has clicking and silent bits. I was starting to click a few times and that was when the trouble started.
“What’s that clicking noise” came can angry voice from next to my partner. A chav with a strong weed smell and an angry voice. I tried to show her my stim toy, and was about to apologise. Then she said “You should stop it!” Not a “please can you be a little more quiet?” Not a “would you mind being a little quieter”. Just “You should stop it!”
My mum told the woman “She’s autistic” and she stood her ground. “You should warn people!” My partner told her that I don’t owe anybody my diagnosis. I don’t have to tell people around me all the time that I’m autistic. She just said “Shut the fuck up.” And he didn’t want to disturb anyone else.
By this point I was crying heavily, but silently. I tried to stop myself as much as I could. My mum checked in, asked if I needed a minute, but since we were in the middle of a row and it would have disrupted a lot of people, I said I was fine. What I didn’t see was my mum was apparently glaring at this woman for several minutes.
The woman then loudly states “What the fuck are you staring at?” And tries to instigate a fight. She says that she will disrupt everyone around us and “ruin it for everyone”, and cause a scene, followed by “I paid for my ticket just like everyone else!” And because that is the thing I am terrified of happening, I try to get my mum to back down.
I’m sat there, blubbering quietly, trying to use hand gestures to get my mum to back down. I just want it all to stop. Eventually the woman calms down and goes back to clapping and laughing like everyone else. I wipe away tears through the rest of the show.
When the show finishes, she quickly gets on her coat and tries to move out as fast as she can. I don’t know if she thought my mum wild deck her, but I know my mum absolutely wanted to.
If she’d stuck around after, I would’ve told her how awful she was and that she shouldn’t speak to autistic people that way. But she ran like a coward. I hope she never has an autistic family member, because I am sure she would be even worse to them.
Some NTs are just terrible, selfish people who think they’re more important than anyone else.
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in sewer ants
People: Whatever you do, make sure you have insurance.
me: Okay.
*something bad happens to my insured thing*
me: hello My Insurance, can I have some of the money I gave you back to fix this problem.
insurance: Sure, here's all the money you need to fix it.
people: You fool! You're not supposed to USE insurance! Now your rates will go up.
me: But... I didn't cause any of the damage in any way? I don't think they can do that.
people: Doesn't matter—they'll get ya! At least don't tell us you spent the insurance money on fixing the thing you insured!
me: I thought I bought insurance so I could fix the thing if it was damaged.
people: But you could've kept the money, and had more money!
me: ... technically I would've had more money right now if I'd never bought insurance in the first place, and I'd still have had to spend a bunch of it to fix my thing.
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at work we started doing corporate buzzword bingo and the key offender at the moment legit might be "all that good type of thing" which basically is HR short hand for "I want you to communicate widely that things are good but I don't want to say what the good things are. you must guess"
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Why are some allistics so against the idea of asking to help in a different way. Like, if you come to me and ask me to do a task that is overwhelming or highly unpleasant for me, just for the sake of some assistance.... what is so wrong with me asking to be useful to you in some other way? I am happy to help, but I am not happy to make myself suffer for the sake of others. Can you not just point me to some other area/way in which I could support you?
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