My take

4/ When I say, “I’m #autistic,” I’m not saying, “That’s all I am.” Of course it isn’t, but it is a very important part of what makes me me — probably more so than any other label that could be applied to me, except (maybe) “human”. That label helped me to finally make sense of my life to a degree I hadn’t previously thought was possible.

And yet, there are many people who think I should distance myself from it, because of the misconceptions they have about what it means.

3/ In other cases, it’s because THEY associate certain negative stereotypes with that label.

Here’s thing, though: you don’t fight stereotypes by avoiding a label. That rarely works because the stereotypes just attach themselves to the new label over time. Often, it’s better to embrace the label and show people that it doesn’t mean what they think it means.

#humor #funny

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Cheeeeese🧀

1/ Thinking today about labels. Specifically, when people say “I hate labels” or think people should distance themselves from certain labels.

Labels are just words. Nouns. Adjectives. Nouns and adjectives don’t imply that other nouns and adjectives can’t also apply to the subject. They’re just descriptors relevant to the topic at hand.

#caturday

#LGBTQ++

Slovakian woman visits lions she raised as cubs.Their mother was in a circus and rejected them at birth

💙 #InvisibleIllness 🧡 #Disabled 💚💜 🦓

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#AspieLife #neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #residentalien #theweirdkid #AspieHumor

I read a book about Autism recently, the author told a story about a friend that he was visiting too often and and the friend said "you don't have to visit so often" and he stopped visiting all together, when the friend inquired about why he stopped coming around he said you told me to, and the most surprising thing to me was he had a friend he could visit.

#ActuallyAutistic #Friends #Reading

: two latelies about my #AspieLife from over on my IG

#people #behavior #identity #apologies #humannature

#neurallyatypical #actuallyautistic #residentalien #theweirdkid

You learn so quick
Not to ask
There is no help

#poetry #ActuallyAutistic

@Dogofalltrees It's so easy to dismiss "invisible" disabilities.

There's a growing consensus in the #ActuallyAutistic community that the "experts" who claimed that we "lack theory of mind" are projecting. We learn early that others don't think as we do. We don't have the luxury of imagining that everyone's brains function like ours, or that any evidence to the contrary simply means that they're "disordered".

I would posit that it's actually NTs who are more likely to lack theory of mind.

Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.
Oscar Wilde

Any government worth their salt will put Beavis and Butthead on the citizenship test. Abraham Lincoln is old news.