What you see in the title is something that someone I grew up with said about my autism.

I was reminded of this when I saw something just now.

A lot of people still think autism is interchangeable with being mentally handicapped. And some extremely stupid people think it’s something you can “beat” like it’s some sort of affliction that destroys families.

Autism speaks is one such organization that says it’s like that last part.

I don’t know how to define autism and neither do 100% of autism specialists I’ve spoken to

This is just me venting about people who don’t get it and refuse to learn each case of autism is unique

  • fairchild@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I mean not caring too much is usually my approach too and this works 9/10. I was thinking more of edge cases, e.g. an important appointment when you have one of those really bad days, where you can’t just go “Yeah, whatever” but will fuck up some major things in your life or will regret not having been able to act “normal” for a while.