#but dammit i'm tired of posts about how what amounts to special interests being the root of people being absolute monsters about

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I started writing a thing about how autistic traits get unfairly blamed for fandom toxicity , but tbh what it boils down to is:  Things like immaturity, low empathy, trouble with social interaction, fixating on a single thing to the point of making that thing part of one’s identity, and other common autistic traits are not the goddamn problem and insinuating that they are is really unfair to those of us who possess all those traits (yet ~somehow~ manage to be nice and compassionate people). 

The actual problems are bigotry, entitlement, and the way cruelty in online spaces has been normalized.  Every time I’ve tried to talk about this people argue that “But no it’s not about autistic people because in this context this trait is the root of the evil” but honestly, in my opinion, if you villainize autistic traits (traits that in of themselves are harmless), you’re villainizing autistic people for possessing those traits, even if that’s not your intention.