• starbreaker@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Humans are social creatures.

    Are we really? It seems to me like even neurotypical people tend to self-isolate in rich societies if they’re prosperous enough to get away with it.

    The important part is to increase awareness that Autism is a disability and to ask for tolerance.

    First, I don’t feel disabled. The world just wasn’t made for people who think like I do any more than it was made for left-handed people (of whom I’m one). But maybe I just didn’t get hit that hard with the autism stick, so with a bit of effort I can fake being neurotypical long enough to hold down an office job.

    Second, aren’t you sick of asking for tolerance? I certainly am. Maybe it’s time to stop asking. Nobody took gay liberation seriously until Stonewall, remember?

    • Striker@lemmy.worldOP
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      Neurotypicals don’t self isolate in prosperous communities they overwhelming interact with people just only other rich people. The rich as a general rule if thumb go to extremes to avoid interacting with people of a lower socioeconomic status why do you think first class and private planes are a thing?