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Like I just feel like a concerning amount of social skills advice for autistic people is written with the fundamentally incorrect assumption that 1) all autistic people could learn how to socialize normally if only they knew it was important and put in a bit of effort, and that 2) thus it is actually fine to judge the autistic people who don't

chronicallyonlinehimejoshi

Maybe don't "all experience" this or that everything is online discussion/sentiment.

I as an autistic people feel comfortable with masking and use the first strategy for myself not because it's internalised ableism but because it's in my best interest. Not every autistic experience is survival.

#no tags in particular #autistic experiences

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I don't really understand people who say they "feel" like they're not level 1 due to their internalised experience and feelings. But then you see that they're very independent on a daily basis. And you also see so many people agreeing with them and trying to validate that they're not level 1 based on those internalised experiences.

If we were diagnosing based on how we "feel" then a lot us would either not be diagnosed at all or we'd all be level 3.

I guess that I find it frustrating because your internalised experience vs your externalised experience isn't the same thing at all.

You being able to do something and internally feeling anxious or whatever about it, is still not the same as someone who can't do it at all or needs support to do it.

Sure there are a lot of autistics who deal with mental health, but autism is a developmental disorder.

chronicallyonlinehimejoshi

I think this sentiment is too idealistic.

People not only need support boundaries, but safety boundaries.

People of needs who don't understand boundaries no matter how high or low their needs are to not comprehend it or how old they are to not comprehend still can make people feel unsafe. Autistic people can make neurotypical people feel unsafe from not understanding boundaries.

#no tags in particular #the disability justice movement on Tumblr is so bleak

autisticghostss

”autistic people don’t do [ extremely common higher support need , higher level autistic trait / symptom ] , that just stereotype”

you need include us too : you need include childish autistic person , you need include nonverbal autistic person , you need include autistic person who drool , you need include autistic people with intellectual disability , you need include autistic person with loud messy public meltdowns .

can not hide behind “it just stereotype” because that not true . there are many people very disabled by autism , you need remember us and include us .

partyinthecloudkingdom

the problem has never been people conforming to a stereotype. the problem is applying that trait to the entire group and then using it to justify oppressing, dehumanizing, and belittling any of us. this goes for any stereotype, i still see other queer people attacking gay men who "act gay" for example

chronicallyonlinehimejoshi

Literally. Also masking is a trait that's been dehumanised and stigmatised in autistic advocacy spaces, and it's not talked about enough.

People seem to act like know-it-alls about someone's autism, their conditions, experiences, etc., and use the same "masking is oppressing your autism" sentiment in case its one persons experience maybe but its treated like a universal truth which its not.

Masking was quite literally an interest for me - as a level 2 autistic person too - not some survival trait or suppression which is reductive and poor sentiment the chronically online lsn people frame it. it requires heavy regulation and comprehension which I struggle with but nonetheless it was what I liked with my condition that support systems couldn't help with.

Also masking doesn't necessarily mean being completely socially on par with neurotypicals that's an oversimplification and slightly disingenuous, I think another problem is people reflect on masking as an external thing, rather than an internal thing. Masking could be done really poorly externally because it's a disability nonetheless and one person can view it as masking but the other not.

#the disability justice space is so bleak

autie-hobbit

We still need Autism Awareness

chronicallyonlinehimejoshi

This is such an oversimplification.

Being over specific about what autistic people need online doesn't do anything - it causes infighting and doesn't direct blame on the actual problem - the "support" institutions systematically harming moderate to higher needs autistic people and autistic people from minorities.

All people have different ways of advocating for autism, and different conditions for their autism awareness journey. Autism awareness is one way just like many other ways. And LSN autistic people and autistic people in the impcore world/first world aren't the most oppressed people. There are other autistic people more systematically oppressed than you guys.

Not arguing at all - agreeing with what the sentiment was going for but adding on :)

#no tags in particular #queer rights #poc rights #fuck ablenationalism #msn autism #Lsn autism #hsn autism

phleb0tomist

it’s such a basic part of the reality of disabled people as a whole but it’s STILL so hard to get ppl to understand that some people will simply die without 24/7 care. their care is not for comfort, it’s not for fun, it’s literally a matter of life and death. “if their care was taken away i’m sure they’d learn to suck it up like the rest of us!” – something ive heard time and time again. no they wouldn’t, they would die. they HAVE died. they continue to die as cuts are made to welfare and health. why is this so impossible for people to grasp.

phleb0tomist

excellent addition @18thcenturythirsttrap

chronicallyonlinehimejoshi

I agree with the sentiment - like especially what was said in the tags, and because I agree, I'm going to point out that you're getting the idea confused, and that you're a bit disingenuous with how the support system works.

Status quo support systems/institutions don't even support disabled people that well with the care needed its not just going into recent things like cuts in welfare and funds etc. - its been a rigged institution built on eugenics against disabled people since day 1 - its not just a social/discrimination/poor sentiment thing - its something that happens as a system. Don't favour those systems for those reasons, even if you're doing so implicitly. That argument you used should be applied for being critical of the harm they do.

And if you think it does support disabled people, you're probably low support needs or from a first world country. The most privileged type of disabled person. Always gets any kind of support.

#the disability justice community on Tumblr is so bleak #no tag in particular

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I find it really interesting how we've been getting more and more films that are critiques not just of the powerful, but of the moderates. Sinners, Us, Saltburn, to name a few. Films that while the "bad guys" are representative of bigger systemic evils such as white supremacy, Classism, Patriarchy; the antagonists are not those on the top of the system, but usually someone from the middle who has bought into the rules of the game of hierarchy.

In Sinners, the vampires offer success for the trade off of letting them claim your cultural knowledge for their own exploitation. The depiction of the KKK as the more overtly racist evil, puts the vampires in the middle, offering more of a quid pro quo, rather than the straight elimination that the KKK promises. In Us, Adelaide, when given opportunity to escape the under class, she imprisons her double in her place, that if there's only space for one to thrive, it'll be her, solidarity being damned. And in Saltburn, while Oliver manipulates his way into and eliminates an upper class family, he does so from a place of Middle Class aspiration, and not one from a mindset that the ruling class is something abhorrent, that the wealth should be redistributed and the hierarchy destroyed. The fact that the film ends with Oliver's victory strut through his ill-gotten manor, shows him physically vulnerable and alone, shows his own inability to form true community, perpetuating the system.

These films highlight that it's not just the Evil Masters in the ruling class that are the problem, it's the mythologies of success and wealth that are promised for our participation in these systems, and how our participation can turn us into monsters in service of the ruling class.

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