#are you that starved for representation that you'll accept terribly unrelated characters as your spokespeople? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

isekyaaa · 11 months ago

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People tag so many normal things as "autism" that I'm lowkey concerned that majority of these people aren't even autistic but have latched onto a very real developmental disorder to validate their quirks. Either that or a symptom of autism is assuming your experience is so incredibly unique that any normal human being couldn't possibly experience it.

#rambles #having interests #being terrible at socializing #hyperfocusing #disliking interactions with people #avoiding people #these are things very normal people experience #they are not unique experiences #what makes them unique is the way autistic people experience them #but those traits and the reasons for those traits alone are not the summation of autism #there are so many more things than those #but they're all what people focus on #it frustrates me when people latch onto very specific traits of characters and tag them as autistic #[character had a very traumatic and abusive childhood and now displays introversion] = autistic #[character is very smart and hates dealing with people but displays an incredible eq and understanding] = autistic #is that all what it means to be autistic?#are you that starved for representation that you'll accept terribly unrelated characters as your spokespeople?

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