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Fucking right.
What I can’t stand is the critics who say “yOu jUst WAnT tO fEel sPeCiAL.”
Bruh. Neurodiverse people are well aware that we aren’t normal. We don’t need to make up a label in order to stand out - we have stood out like sore thumbs our entire lives, yet never understood why.
Finding out a reason for our quirks, and a community of like minds, provides us a way to finally fit in somewhere. What we seek isn’t to be, “Look at me, I’m so different!” but rather, “Wow, there are all these people who are like me! I’m not alone!” What we want is literally the opposite of what such people accuse us of wanting.
It’s the epitome of neurotypicality to think everyone must want to stand out. That argument betrays just how little such a person understands our point of view.
Ayup. There's not "something wrong with me" i'm just not designed to run in these environs.
And now i fucking know that i don't get overloaded to the point of meltdown, i just leave.
How come I can generally not tell between an Autistic person, and a neurotypical.
Do you work in tech? Genuinely not kidding
But so what if you can't? Hell i went 40 years undiagnosed, so it's not just you
Nope, would be in tech if I could. Blue collar slave, my hands are almost calcified from the type of work.
Basically, Autistic people complain about how neurotypicals dislike them, and they don't know why.
I don't know why either, I rarely see anything dislikable about autistic people.
My guess would be, because there are many more people with strong autistic traits out there than there are with diagnoses, thanks to autism, medically, being a disorder rather than just a 'neurotype', and the bar to be labelled with a disorder can be rather high, and also that you are probably mostly having your meaningful or significant interpersonal interactions with people who have high levels of traits that are similar to your own neurotype.
Why is it not pissing me off? I mean, I suspect I have ADHD, but that is a different thing. So, I'd notice and be bothered, right?
"Normal" is a term that should always be used in quotation marks. We are all unique in exactly the same way everyone else is.
Lol, special would be nice. A high likelihood of being shunned since childhood is the norm. But I’d settle for acceptance.