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verysensitivepansexualaspie:

“Or, my favorite—how dare Autistic people (assumed to be straight, usually wrongly, as the Autistic community is heavily queer) try to explain our situation by saying, “What if all the dialogue about gay people was controlled by straight people and was about curing homosexuality?” We obviously don’t understand Their Struggles. After all, a gay person pointed out in this conversation, no one gets killed for being Autistic.

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In terms of the Autistic community, at least, it just especially bugs me because…it’s so queer, and not just because many of us are. A straight person in the Autistic community is so much smarter and more familiar, when it comes to queer stuff, than nearly any non-disabled straight person, because you just can’t get away from queerness. So like, when a bunch of queer non-disabled people who know nothing about disability, the Autistic experience in particular, or our community, start fucking trying to educate us because they think we’re cluelessly comparing ourselves to them, I just explode. My head explodes. There are little pieces of my skull and hair lying on the floor around me.”

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the ultimate (ridiculous) showdown (Amanda Forest Vivian)

Of course, “no one gets killed for being Autistic” is actually wrong… 

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This is pretty interesting to me since as a (mostly?) straight typical functioning female I would have never thought of this… though I suppose, that as 2nd generation Asian American, while I feel that I can empathize with a lot of other minorities, those same minorities that I might feel connected to would say, ‘girl, you have no idea what my life it like - don’t you even, pfft.’

Also, seeing this on my dash seems very coincidental as I’m currently in the process of getting a job as a DSP in a group home with consumers who are autistic or are mild-moderate functioning. My interviewer asked me some questions related to the OP.

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