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2:52pm June 9, 2015

“When autistic people talk about not wanting to be changed, we’re not talking about wanting to remain static and unchanging throughout time…We’re saying “We don’t want to be changed” in the same way that a cat, faced with becoming a dog, would say “I don’t want to be changed.” The cat isn’t denying the important passage from kittenhood to adulthood. The cat is saying I want to grow as a cat, not a dog.”

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Mel Baggs, “What not changing us means” (via neurodiversitysci)

It is so weird when I read something and I’m going “Wow, right, that’s totally accurate,” and then I read down to the attribution and it’s something I had written ages ago and completely forgotten about.

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