(((Digimon Is Forever)))

I don’t care how “weird” someone’s trigger(s) sound. Respect their trigger(s). You aren’t owed an explanation or anything from them.

Trust someone when they tell you because they know how they feel better than anyone.

Dismissing an autistic advocate as “not autistic enough” because they can type or communicate understandably is a missed opportunity to gain insight about autism. It’s a disservice to autistic people who can’t understandably communicate their internal experiences.

Dismissing an autistic advocate because their described internal experiences don’t fit the tragedy narrative you’ve built your nonverbal autistic child’s life on is an even greater disservice.

No two autistic people are exactly alike, but autistic people know what being autistic is really like. A neurotypical can only guess what it’s like, and they often guess wrong.

Please stop making us the sidekicks in our own stories.