hear me out: i think autistic people were the storykeepers of communities before colonization. wait wait wait donāt scroll away yet. i have thought to back up my theory.
autistic people memorize large swaths of information that are interesting to us, many of us love art that has a moral/a story/which moves us, we have huge imagination worlds, we see/hear/feel things others donāt, we are highly analytical and see patterns other people canāt, weāre able to see the interconnectedness of the universe bc we see how the little parts make the whole, we have a strong sense of justice, weāre highly emotional/in tune with other peopleās emotions (when given the space to be), our intuition is generally spot-on, etc (of course iām speaking in generals and autism is not a monolith, this is just what iāve personally been putting together over the course of the last year. also thereās a lot more but i have hw to do that iām avoiding by writing this so if anyone wants to have a conversation ab this iām more than willing to go deeper in depth later)
and then thereās the bit where autistic people tend to exist outside of the gender binary at higher rates than allistic people (also just neurodivergent people in generalā again, not all, but a good amount). and when you look up what roles Two-Spirit people in different Indigenous communities are/always have been, itās generally something like storykeeper/teacher/medicine person/spiritual guide etc (iām NOT claiming that every non-binary or two spirit person is autistic, iām just noting the correlation)
i started thinking about this because i was curious as to what my role wouldāve been had i been born before colonization fucked everything up. this thought process helped me not only ācome to termsā with my autism, but actually helped me love it. i donāt know if iām right, and iām open to have my thought processes challenged. i just thought if the idea that you have always served a purpose to this community, you have always been an integral part of the community, helped one more autistic person love themselves, iād share it.
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