AnAutisticTexan

The way that exclusionists treat ace and aro people often reminds me of how the average person would treat me when I started being open as non-binary. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a thousand times, we are not enemies. Our experiences do not oppose each other, they are intertwined. If you’re ace, if you’re aromantic, if you’re any variation thereupon; your home is here. You belong here, too. You are beautiful, and powerful; and you don’t have to explain yourself to anyone. You are a valued part of this community.

You know yourself and your experiences better than anyone else. Don't let neurotypicals confuse you or make you feel bad because they don't understand. You can have uneven skills, specific interests in niche topics, different sensory needs, etcetera. Those things are real neurodivergent experiences. And you don't deserve to be made fun of or treated badly for those experiences or for anything else.

[ID: A watercolor painting of Toph holding an aroace flag. Toph is wearing her usual earth kingdom attire from the comics. She’s holding her left fist in the air and her right hand is holding a flagpole. Her left foot is facing the viewer, her right one is to the side resting on a pile of rocks. Toph is looking straight at the viewer and smiling. Flag is made out of (from the top) light orange strip, yellow, white, blue, dark blue stripes it flows over Toph. End ID]

Ace people are LGBTQ+

(Image description: a purple background with black, white, gray, and purple dots in the top left and bottom right corners, white text in the middle of the image says “My Asexual identity cannot be separated from my Queer identity. My asexuality is queer.”)

The autistic community cannot become a community of people who can communicate in suitably neurotypical ways.

- Dorothee Solle, The Inward Road and the Way Back

Destroy the idea that it’s okay to abort a fetus for the sole reason that a prenatal test says they’ll be a disabled baby.