#HARD AGREE with the whole “oh no its ok thier autistic” thing though

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As an autistic person who has a difficult time getting out of the habit of doin certain things. When i fuck up after a boundary is set and keep doing the thing it genuinely does weigh on me to the point that i will be in tears about it. Not everyone does it on purpose, and sometimes it does take being asked a few times for these things to stick. Expetially when you have an absolutely dog shit memory like i do.

If you tell someone directly "that behavior makes me uncomfortable, please stop doing that to/around me" and the person keeps doing it and anyone tries to excuse it with "they're autistic, they can't help that they're bad at social clues", know that it's bullshit. Once you have verbally articulated a boundary directly to someone's face it is no longer a complex social clue, it's a direct request. And you don't get to ignore direct communication of boundaries because you're autistic.