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8:19pm April 18, 2013

 Trying to find the right words: youneedacat: Trying to find the right words: people trying to become...

youneedacat:

Trying to find the right words: people trying to become autism stereotypes is also a thing

josiahd:

deducecanoe:

josiahd:

I wish it wasn’t.

WHAT? Please explain this to me?

It’s like…

Autistic folks thinking that being a legitimate autistic person means…

Oh that makes a lot of sense. I’ve had trouble with similar things. Where I was a lot like a certain thing, but not entirely like it, and had trouble sorting out the differences.

Once I worked out a lot more about who I really am, I’ve tried really hard to make a place in the world for people like me, because there kind of wasn’t one before. But in doing so I may have inadvertently created a new thing that some people are a lot like, but aren’t entirely like, and… Etc. I never really thought of that.