PetRPG Anonymous!

I think many people don’t consider autism as something terrible or horrible, People are proud to be autistic because they are often shamed for being aneurotypical when they shouldn’t be, etc.

Sometimes it’s less boasting and more of a form of coping/self-esteem boosting and coming to terms with rather than feeling shame or guilt.

attitudes like yours, anon, are the reason most of us have felt personally responsible and like horrid people for so long, and we’re not.

so yeah, if the entire world’s sitting there using autism and other disorders as an insult (the other day i saw a post on my dash that had an ‘autism meter’ spiking at full load and the person was saying that’s how they felt when they saw the st*pid drivel people posted, for example, and this shit’s not uncommon) then can you blame us for wanting to find the GOOD in ourselves?

because there’s plenty of good, we’re not tragic wrecks, and our lives are not nothing but suffering. we’re not worthless, we’re worth as much as anyone else

and honestly, at this point, yeah, i think it’s actually a-ok for someone with a disability to romanticise their disability and own it and recognise the silver linings!

people without the disability shouldn’t, sure, but the thing is, i really don’t ever see that actually happen!!!

the only people who romanticise it that i’ve seen are people who are constantly put down by society and people like you for having the disabilities in the first place, and it’s our way of fighting back and validating ourselves.

some disabled people might take issue with it and we generally respect those people but honestly?

most of the people i ever see saying ‘no don’t glorify that it’s a bad thing!!!’ are abled and trying to convince us that we lack worth and should be only ever suffering.

make sense?

ETA: prpga’s last sentence, also. It’s really not up to you to determine whether you think someone is ‘faking’ it or not, because honestly if that’s your reaction to most people???? that’s uh that’s rooted firmly in ableism right there, please step back and consider WHY you feel that why and WHY it bothers you!

and yes, that goes even if you yourself are disabled. this whole post does! it’s entirely possible to internalise ableism. that’s what the whole romanticising thing is tbh

it’s getting over the feelings society’s ground into our heads.