#sorry for the rant. this is an opinion held by like 3 weirdos but like sometimes it irritates me

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seasonal depression sucks. have a picture of Stan.

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I technically dont know im autistic because im not diagnosed and its more like peoppe around me have told me they think i am (whether it be in a nice way or not might i add 🙁 lately its also sometimes been in a weirdly... attempting romance way? like slow your roll buddy im not this way to make you happy in that way, all apologies, but get outta town!) and like i also have had most close friends that are autistic and even if i am neurotypical and just bad at it, I resonate with autistic people and im glad peoppe seem to be normalizing autism because the world we live in needs to be more open to more minds in general. I sometimes think about how some cultures have been brought to near if not outright erasure only to have the remains pushed together into some commodified "idealized" zombie of what once was and everyobody forgets about the people the ideas came from who died for their beliefes and culture and everyone just keeps forgetting and stuff. I hope we can love autistic people, weird people, all people because anyone who isn't an active harm is an active heal in my opinion and i hate seeing people get put down now that I see no good comes from it. I mean I know there are exceptions but work that out with yourself I don't want to sit and think about it because I am tempted to rant once more. Anyway part of my point is that I'm thankful for autistic acceptance being on the rise (perhaps, its hard to tell) because people do treat me more like an eccentric now and less as a fuck up. For most of my early life people really really didnt like me and though it was eventually deserved because I started being a big cunt wagon to everyone, at first it was because I wasnt likeable, because I said stupid things I thought were funny but everyone elae found embarrassing, etc. My kindergarten teacher got so mad that 8 couldn't hold a pencil and didn't care that I wasnt holdijg it right and refused to change how I held it. She got so mad she called me a slur. No one else in class really understood or cared, and my family used the word kinda flippantly so I thought it was just a word like dumb. Later in 1/2nd whenever I was sent to the principals office these 2 ladies would gossip about me right in front of me and would call me dirty because i would crawl on the floors if I wanted to or play in whatever at recess and yes it did make me kind of dirty. But at least i was alive! When I was in middleschool/early Highschool i got really mean and tried to avoid cringe as much as I could brinf myself to, and would shame others especially online. But in the past 3 or so years I've slowly let go, and today I feel very very free abd try to be as kind to others as I can (when I'm not in evil mode I mean. I'm also very VERY evil). There is so much to love about how everyone is wired a bit differebtly, how everyone was born in a slightly different moment and spot, and how every combination makes the world more complete. If you push people to only be certain things you get very tall islands. But the ocean needs more filling, methinks. Sorry to unleash all this I know no one will see this or be particularly changed by some weirdos surface level takes, but this post sure did speak to me. In conclusion, I love cringe of all forms! We are enemies no longer.

The hard truth about autism acceptance that a lot of people don't want to hear is that autism acceptance also inherently requires acceptance of people who are just weird.

And yes, I mean Those TM people. Middle schoolers who growl and bark and naruto run in the halls. Thirtysomethings who live with their parents. Furries. Fourteen-year-olds who identify as stargender and use neopronouns. Picky eaters. Adults in fandoms. People who talk weird. People who dress weird.

Because autistic people shouldn't have to disclose a medical diagnosis to you to avoid being mocked and ostracized for stuff that, at absolute worst, is annoying. Ruthlessly deriding people for this stuff then tacking on a "oh, but it's okay if they're autistic" does absolutely nothing to help autistic people! Especially when undiagnosed autistic people exist.

Like it or not, if you want to be an ally to autistic people, you're going to have to take the L and leave eccentric, weird people alone. Even if you don't know them to be autistic. You shouldn't be looking for Acceptable Reasons to be mean to people in the first place. Being respectful should be the default.