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10:13pm April 16, 2015

I notice I’m no longer listed in lists of nonverbal autistic people who believe such-and-such a thing.

I don’t know whether this is an improvement or not.

Nor do I know whether it’s because I don’t believe in a sharp division between verbal and nonverbal autistic people, or whether it’s because I’m too dangerous to name anymore because people have believed false rumors about me.  Or because I grew up verbal and that’s not allowed in nonverbal people.  (Never mind that most of the people on those lists can speak somewhat, often better/more often than I can, these days.  Because verbal/nonverbal is not an accurate dividing line, for just about anyone.)  Or some totally different reason.

And I don’t even know anymore whether the false rumors people believe are the old ones (that I somehow enjoy pretending to be autistic, WTF) or the new ones (that I’m a transmisogynist, WTF), both of which require, in their minds, total shunning of me, by anyone who believes them.

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  1. madeofpatterns reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    it’s weird particularly for that list because you believe the thing and a lot of people on that list don’t, as far as I...
  2. chavisory said: It’s…*possible* that they’re young enough to not really know who you are? Like Ido, Amy, and Emma have gotten more press fairly recently?
  3. katisconfused said: yeah I saw that list and was like “did they leave off mel or forget??”
  4. withasmoothroundstone posted this