izzyizumi reblogged
oh, of course nobody hates autistic people, that’s ableist and rude!
they just hate anyone who misses social cues or has “odd” interests or doesn’t express emotions in a “normal” way or who has trouble articulating themselves or who understands and interacts with the world differently than they do
#autisticjoy#izzyizumi autism tag#autism tag#autism#autism issues#ableism#anti autistic ableism#internalized ableism#internalized anti autistic ableism#social cues#neurotypical#weird#normal#(HOLLOW LAUGHTER)#(OP IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT)#(I SAY AS SOMEONE WHO FOUND OUT I WAS AUTISTIC)#(WHEN I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL)#(BUT I WAS DIAGNOSED BEFORE THAT)#(I've basically been displaying autistic traits ever since I was a toddler sO)#(YOU CAN IMAGINE)#(HOW I PICK UP ON THESE THINGS)#(also back then we had)#(''''functioning labels'''')#(I COULD SAY A LOT ABOUT THAT)#(ok but I'm being serious when I was described to my doctor they legit explained how most of those traits I displayed when I was like 4?)#('those were autistic traits')#(even if I was never diagnosed I would still have held all of those traits regardless)#(more tags thoughts on this topic to come eventually but yEAH if you're anti self diagnosis you should NOT be following me)#(OR interacting with my posts because whoa someone else in the fandom missed these PSAs tOO a while ago and)#(blatantly had anti self diagnosis reblogs right at the head of their blog and posts schooling others on autism when they weren't autistic)