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6:14am August 6, 2012

➸ No Clue: Final post about any opinions and then I’m done.I’ve been thinking...

josiahd:

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ihavenoidea28:

Final post about any opinions and then I’m done.

I’ve been thinking about the whole “No one has to educate you” thing.

I used to be on the side of “No one has to educate you!” I got angry at allistic people being ignorant, at hearing people being ignorant, at everything. And I would respond…

I agree. I really don’t even feel comfortable trying to educate allistics anymore because of the way that many of us in the tag just jump down their throats.

And also - I think that if you start a conversation about someone about an issue, then it IS your job to educate that person. It’s not really ok to just initiate yelling at people that they’re horrible, refuse to explain what they did wrong, refuse to listen to anything they say, ignore their intentions, and tell them it’s not your job to educate them. Sometimes people try to start inappropriate or boundary boiling conversations, and they need to be told to stop, in suffienctly forceful terms that they do. But starting a conversation just to yell at and humilate someone, without having any actual intention to explain things to them, is completely different. It’s sadistic and it doesn’t help anything.

WTF. I go away for… however long I’ve been away. And when I come back, half the conversations I find involve stuff I’ve been writing into this software I have for mapping out connections between things. But not being able to make into one big post. Weird, almost like stepping into a warp dimension or something, but cool.