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10:06pm May 28, 2014

➸ Maybe I've gone overboard, without noticing it.

okideas:

youneedacat:

So there was a time, when people like me were all but invisible in online communities. Whether it was the autistic community, or broader communities, our particular natural set of abilities and difficulties was being left out in a major way.

So I began posting about people like me, and putting us…

But what world is it when the typical need apologies from those on the fringe?

But the people hurt by this were not the typical.  They were people who were atypical in other ways, that happened to be the opposite from the ways that I was atypical.  They were used to their own means of thinking being put down, and they assumed that was what I was doing.  And they were really hurt by this, on a repeated basis, and felt like I was saying they were worthless.  And that’s not just anything, especially when the other person is neuro-atypical themselves.