#as someone who WAS addicted to socials like Twitter being autistic was constant misery and discourse

[lovingk9z]

I think we need to stop trying to police how people talk about their disorders.

No one is less autistic or harming other autistic people by lightheartedly discussing their autism.

Tumblr is entirely ran by everyone's biggest interests. This isn't Twitter, where autism is treated like a political identity. If you want to constantly hear and SEE all the bullshit we have to go through, go to Twitter.

I'm certain most autistic people here come to escape the struggles of the real world by over indulging in their interests and thats OKAY. Let us do that. Especially when most of the real world is so awful and unforgiving to people like us. We need a break. We need a place to feel like we're fucking normal. A place where we can stop thinking about those issues and just talk about what makes us happiest.

This doesn't mean you can't ever talk about how autism impacts your functioning here, in fact so many people already do that. But so many of us would just... rather not. And that's fine.

Very fucking frustrating to see autism being reduced to a fun character trait that barely impacts functioning by ppl on tumblr. I was diagnosed age 6 and although I would not be myself without it, my autism has absolutely had a major negative impact on my life.

I have suffered and currently suffer so much because of it and that is something that I can't afford not to recognize. I'm not saying "hey autism is nothing but suffering and pain" I'm saying that talking about autism like it's the Special Interest Disorder is a reductive way to look at something that is an inescapable and often very difficult reality for the people who have it.