gonna be interesting to see how autism discourse unfolds
at this point it's Known that elon is autistic but no one is ready for that conversation
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there's a perceived tension between "autistics are legally disabled, there are many things that are harder for us than they are for the median person" and "dont infantilize autistics, we're just as agentic as anyone else," it's tricky for most people to hold both these ideas
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the other day SNL made a joke about elon's social skills
in a sense you're punching up, i guess, bc he has more money than you
but you're also punching down at autistics as a group
little sad i didnt see the activists rise up here
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one of my favorite ironic moments was the time i accidentally pissed off the twitter autist community and they all descended on me angry that id violated their unspoken social norms and didnt care that im also on the spectrum
the way i pissed them off was i made a long poll thread about whether ppl would push a button to prevent people from X group (with the groups rotated out) from being born, and were they in that group/not in that group?
The autist one went viral in autist circles
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love it when that shit happens
i think part of being aware of the double empathy problem is having to acknowledge that autistics can be tribal too
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come to think of it, i had a similar experience on tiktok lol
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