#ricewithaspoon

I like to eat rice with a spoon.

In North America where I live, many people consider it weird and wrong to eat rice with a spoon, because it's not something they do, or it's not something a lot of people in this area do.

Being autistic, I do a lot of things differently from most neurotypicals. Sometimes the way I do things is actually wrong or inefficient, and I appreciate being corrected. But sometimes my way of doing things is just different, but it works better for me - like eating rice with a spoon instead of a fork.

This blog is not literally about eating rice with spoons. I'm using that title to say that autistic people may seem different or unusual than allistics, but we're not inherently bad people for being different.

Ah, yes. Today is the day when I try to correct those well-meaning neurotypicals who think that by wearing or promoting the colour blue, they’re showing solidarity with autistic people.

It’s pretty draining.

As part of this blog, I would like to do a series of posts explaining autism to non-autistic people.

For now, here’s an article explaining about the blue thing:

https://www.inquisitr.com/4109798/light-it-up-blue-autistic-adults-suggest-red-instead/

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