Autistic at Uni

"This is how it feels when neurotypicals tell me to use person first language.

Actually, you can't call yourself gay. Oh uh, I would really prefer if you called yourself a person with gay, that way you're putting the person before the sexuality.

Actually, I don't think you should call yourself a short person. My child is actually a person with a height challenge, and I would really prefer it if you used person with height challenge rather than short.

I don't know, the word fan sounds really harsh. Can you just say person with interest instead? I just like the way that sounds more.

I don't know if you cashier enough to speak for the entire cashiering community, can you please use person who bags groceries and also scans them? No its not a mouthful.

“I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were.

“This essay has been kicking around in my head for years now and I’ve never felt confident enough to write it. It’s a time in my life I’m ashamed of. It’s a time that I hurt people and, through inaction, allowed others to be hurt. It’s a time that I acted as a violent agent of capitalism and white supremacy. Under the guise of public safety, I personally ruined people’s lives but in so doing, made the public no safer… so did the family members and close friends of mine who also bore the badge alongside me.

“But enough is enough.

“The reforms aren’t working. Incrementalism isn’t happening. Unarmed Black, indigenous, and people of color are being killed by cops in the streets and the police are savagely attacking the people protesting these murders.

“American policing is a thick blue tumor strangling the life from our communities and if you don’t believe it when the poor and the marginalized say it, if you don’t believe it when you see cops across the country shooting journalists with less-lethal bullets and caustic chemicals, maybe you’ll believe it when you hear it straight from the pig’s mouth.”

Read the full article here.

you are allowed to be proud of yourself for taking a shower

you are allowed to be proud of yourself for finally finishing that one homework assignment that’s been missing for weeks

you are allowed to be proud of yourself for going a few hours without wanting to die

you are allowed to be proud of yourself for going a few hours without thinking about your traumatic experiences

you are allowed to be proud of yourself for eating

you are allowed to be proud of yourself for raising your hand in class

you are allowed to be proud of yourself for not having to make your friend talk to the cashier for you

you are allowed to be proud of yourself for things that neurotypicals might find easy and/or insignificant

This summer will be the same as the last one: me under a train for those dumbasses

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