as small as a world and as large as alone

9:36pm June 19, 2014

autisticfandomthings:

Non autistic person: “Are you sure you’re autistic? My 5 year old cousin is autistic, and he’s nothing like you?”

Autistic person: “Are you sure you’re not autistic? My 3 year old niece isn’t autistic, and she’s nothing like you? Like, she can barely read, and she likes different things to you? Isn’t it really odd that people twenty years apart in age are different? And that one of them has more skills than the other? In fact, it’s actually really surprising that all people with the same neurotype aren’t totally identical? Isn’t that odd? People are different to each other?”

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