#phobic

an interesting crossover between my autistic literal thinking and the way using the -phobic suffix for bigotry harms the phobic community is that on my first day of 8th grade, my english teacher had a talk about expectations, rules, respect, etc. and one slide said “no phobias or isms” which was supposed to mean no homo/transphobia, racism, sexism, etc. however. my little autistic phobic brain thought that meant i wasn’t allowed in the class because i have phobias. i literally went up to the teacher after class like “😔 i have phobias of masks, flying, doctors, etc. am i still allowed in this class or do i have to swap teachers? 😔👉👈” and i think that’s kinda funny but also kind of an interesting analysis on how phobic people are harmed by conflating bigotry and phobias

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