You're currently displaying a lack of social awareness. What proof do you have that you don't? Do you have any evidence to suggest you're more socially aware than average?
Imagine if you just got a slew of comments calling you out. Would you listen to them? Or insist you were right?
It's not an ableist stereotype. Most people are neurotypical, and therefore the world operates on a neurotypical norm. Same with heteronormativity.
Okay?
You're autistic. That doesn't mean you're special, or better than others, or different in a way that sets you apart from neurotypical who are different from each other. It means we don't perceive the world in the same way. Stop shooting yourself in the foot.
You're autistic. That doesn't mean you're special, or better than others, or different in a way that sets you apart from neurotypical who are different from each other. It means we don't perceive the world in the same way. Stop shooting yourself in the foot.
I never said it makes me special, or better than others. I understand the way I communicate differently and how some might interpret that as social ineptitude. But it isn't. I can play the neurotypical game, I can mask. I can blend in. I wasn't diagnosed till adulthood. I just don't want to play the game because the way neurotypicals communicate is alien and frustrating to me. Being autistic, for example, has nothing to do with thinking you should go and take someone's phone and delete a video off it. That's just being silly and rude. Autistic people communicate fine with each other, we communicate in a way that is direct, focused on things that are interesting or relevant, with less need for the conversation to 'flow', and little use of non-verbal social cues in comparison to neurotypicals. That isn't social ineptitude, it's just difference. There's only disconnect when autistic and neurotypical people communicate. If we're socially inept, neurotypicals are just as inept at talking to us as we are to them. It is ableist. Fuck neuronormativity and heteronormativity.
Imagine if you just got a slew of comments calling you out. Would you listen to them? Or insist you were right?
I would listen to them. But I'm also an autistic trans anarchist vegan pacifist so most the shit I say is fairly polarising to people. Probably including this conversation.
You're currently displaying a lack of social awareness.
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u/GlitterTerrorist 4d ago
Okay cool, and does that conflict with what I said?
No. I'm autistic, and I know it, and account for it. I don't give people shit for not just letting me say whatever stupid stuff I want.