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2:26am April 19, 2013

➸ "You don't need this junk. You need a cat.": I can't write at length about this because I feel really sick right now.

jupiter-reborn:

youneedacat:

But maybe I’ll end up writing at length about it anyway.

But anyway.

So there was a place and time in certain autistic communities, where people thought that Jim Sinclair and Donna Williams were THE people to emulate. Where people thought that all real autistic people were like them, and it…

One of my worst fears right now is that I’m “forcing myself to conform” and making it all up. I don’t know what’s real and what I imagined and I’m terrified that I’m faking it and that the fact that I’m so okay with being autistic must mean that I’m a fraud. I think this has more to do with personal issues and history than anything else in my case, but this post is making me think.

That seriously wasn’t my intent. If I’m making you think you’re a fraud, you have to be taking me wrong, because I would never want to make anyone feel like that, having been accused of it myself. I’m talking about community dynamics that often actually make people feel like frauds, rather than trying to make anyone feel like one or talking about specific people.