• ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
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    9 days ago

    “If you don’t learn to adopt them you will isolate yourself” might be true if there was 1 neurodivergent person. We are a community and personally I’m not interested in being more than acquaintances if I have to mask around you all the time. That’s not a mutually beneficial relationship.

    Autistics are constantly told this lie and it completely ignores the fact that there’s plenty of other autistics that will understand and accommodate each other’s needs.

    This is an ableist way to see the world and my lived experience directly contradicts it.

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      9 days ago

      That’s awesome. Sadly, it does’t apply to their kids PTA, their neighbors or their Jobs.

      There is some level of faking and coping that greases the wheels and lets you not have to swim through the raw sewage of every other ‘normies’ ignorance.

      Don’t fold in and just give on every thing, but don’t die on that fucking hill either.