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: one I made several yeas ago about socializing and #AspieLife
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@sanau @thedisasterautist And then they try to gatekeep trauma, invalidating our experiences because "other people have had it worse" or "everyone is a LITTLE autistic."
@thedisasterautist So much this.
It's one of the many, many things wrong with the idea of teaching #autistic kids to act like NTs. So much of NT interaction and understanding is unconscious. If they're not even consciously aware of the "rules", they can't teach it — and even if they could, it's too much and too complex and situational for anyone to simply memorize.
By teaching us to hide who we are and try to pretend to be something else, they set us up for failure and trauma.