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Are you autistic? || If you press the button, no person with autism is ever born again (or become autistic through other means), though existing people are left unchanged. Do you press the button?
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This seems to be a theme with my twitter experience. I ask a *massive* amount of questions (yay autism) and sometimes they touch on people associating those questions with other bad things and then they get mad at me
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i know you're coming into this fresh but this last week i have had a ton of people "educating" me and expecting me to just bend over to how they want me to speak and think in a whole bunch of things (not just autism) and i am so freaking sick of hearing that stupid word.
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I'm not harming autistics. This is a tactic I see in a lot of abusive communities - where 'being harmed' is very defensible, so people are incentivized to insist that there is harm even when it's ambiguous or possibly even not there at all.
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I am pretty far left for a USian (voted Bernie in 2016 and 2020) but this is why I find conservatives easier to talk to than the perpetually outraged brigade. Thankfully most people are very different in real life, but those who aren't? I quit being friends with way back.