as small as a world and as large as alone

5:53pm June 28, 2014

into-the-weeds:

PSA:

There are very few experiences that only autistic people have. I’ve seen a lot of people reblogging that post about sensory overload and relating to it but worrying they were somehow appropriating autism. No. Sensory overload is not something we own. If that post helps you, it helps you. Claim it. 

This goes for a lot of other things too, but I’ve seen it a lot about that post. Sensory overload happens to lots of people with lots of different disabilities, and some people without any disabilities at all! (FOR NOW.) 

Claim it!

Also can people quit using the concept of appropriation in ways it was never fucking meant to be used, please please please?  It fucks with the heads of people whose heads don’t need fucking with, and it trivializes real appropriation.

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