#also he screams bc u keep him strapped to that fucking chair!!! all day!!!!

[yourheartinyourmouth]

in my experience, what they actually mean when they say that, and the reason they say it as a compliment, is “wow, you’re not an offputting freak like i was expecting you to be! you’re actually a person!”

and that’s why they say it as a compliment. they were expecting either an empty husk, which is how they see nonverbal/intellectually/physically disabled autistics, or an unwashed creep with a fixation on anime girls and MLP, which is what they think most autistics are, or Rain Man, which is their perception of verbal intellectually disabled autistics.

in any case, what it really means is “i didn’t expect you to be a human being like me.”

I hate it when Neurotypicals are like “you don’t SEEM autistic”, because what they’re really saying is “you don’t fit into my preconceived idea of what autism is”. And the worst part is, they think that’s a compliment!