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diff --git a/content/entry/autism-is-not-relatable.md b/content/entry/autism-is-not-relatable.md index b6cd1a6..add0b14 100644 --- a/content/entry/autism-is-not-relatable.md +++ b/content/entry/autism-is-not-relatable.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ In the past, I've had people tell me that they "understand" my autism, only to d When people say these things, they have the best of intentions. But the truth is **they have no clue what they're talking about**. They're trying to compare autism, a pervasive developmental condition, with their neurotypical (normal person) experiences. It's a category error. -When neurotypicals say they feel rejected, they mean a specific person or group of people rejected them. Us autistic people naturally exist so far outside the norm that we are rejected by everyone *by default*. It's not just people mocking us or not getting invited to social gatherings. We expect that. It's all the little subtle things people don't even realize they do that lets us know we're not accepted the way we are. Finding acceptance as an autistic person is like finding a needle in a haystack. +When neurotypicals say they feel rejected, they usually mean a specific person or group of people rejected them. Us autistic people naturally exist so far outside the norm that we are rejected by everyone *by default*. It's not just people mocking us or not getting invited to social gatherings. We expect that. It's all the little subtle things people don't even realize they do that lets us know we're not accepted the way we are. Finding acceptance as an autistic person is like finding a needle in a haystack. And there's also the classic "everybody is different" line. Obviously everyone is different, but it's meant to imply that us autistic people aren't that different. Well if we're not that different, then why do we get called "different", "weirdo", etc and others don't? I'll tell you why. Because while everybody is different, some of us are *more* different. *Much* more different. |