as small as a world and as large as alone

12:35am June 24, 2014

alliecat-person:

andromedalogic:

“is using stim toys if you’re not autistic appropriative?”

several things on the internet went VERY WRONG SOMEWHERE for this sentence to be able to exist

Someone asked this?!!! 

Also at one point an extremely prominent autistic blogger (I don’t know why I’m protecting her, but I am) went on kind of a rant that went like… sort of like this…

“…all these aspies who start typing and say it’s their ‘real voice’ when they don’t respect what this feels like for people who would give anything to be able to speak”

“people who go to toy stores and buy 'stim toys’ that they then use in public in such and such a way”

“people who stim in public even though they never used to stim”

and just a list that made me furious because those are real things real people need to do, and it was like she was half mocking it and half disparaging it and certainly making anyone who did these things feel worse about themselves, and possibly too self-conscious to do the things they need or want to do, it made me really angry and upset.  I don’t remember the whole list, or even if what I said was on the list entirely, I just know this was the general shape of it and it upset me so much.

Because I know a woman who was in her fifties and had been on autopilot her entire life to the point of getting married without even quite realizing it, finally became able to show her true self, who had much more trouble funcitoning than her autopilot self, and needed to do a lot of those things, and she’s far from alone, and nobody should ridicule that or put it down.

And I hate the “if you can talk then you shouldn’t type because it’s disrespectful to people who would gladly give their legs if it meant they could speak”, because… the world shouldn’t work like that.

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