if youâve been trained to to dislike yourself for enjoying anything due to years of being told youâre annoying clap your hands đđđ
if I listed out every particular instance that was met with negativity enough for me to stop feeling comfortable talking about it, this comic would be like 50 panels.
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Okay so this is so important. Please donât ignore this post if you think it doesnât apply to you, because even if it doesnât, it could be happening to someone you care about. And it may seem like nothing, it feels like itâs nothing for a while but after hearing people say just how boring or dumb something you love is⌠well, you start to believe it. Before you realise it you find yourself not finishing stories or sentences because thereâs a voice in your head saying âshut up, no one caresâ and just like that those things you used to love so much lose their spark. They no longer make you as happy as before, everything is tainted and you hate yourself for not fitting in, for not being as interesting as everyone else. Because if everyone says you arenât then they must be right? But no! Itâs not true and you tell yourself that everytime, but itâs not enough. You have to learn to love the things you used to love again.
In my case, Iâve missed out on so many experiences because of this. I had given up trying to make people see the things I like arenât a waste of time. But Iâm slowly trying to claim them back.
So please, if someone you know ever tells you something about them or about what they like please listen to them. Even if you donât really enjoy the thing they are telling you about, if they matter to you please listen. That simple action could mean the whole world to them.
this is kinda painful tbh
Also, speaking as an autistic dude rebloggin from another autistic dude, this treatment/feeling is so much a part of the autistic experience it ainât even funny.
Which does say something about inbaked societal ableism that I canât quite articulateâŚ



















