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2:38am July 12, 2014

megasumpex:

trans-carlos replied to your post:has there ever been an allistic person who told an…
I’ve had it happen. Someone who is allistic came into my inbox after I made a post about stimming and was like “i’ve studied autism and that’s not stimming’. It was gross but also hilarious. like wow okay then.

ooooooh my ghod

I’ve actually had other autistic people tell me I rock wrong.

Pardon me, Stim Police, I wasn’t aware there was one way of rocking.

After that, I went to conferences and was very careful to watch the way other autistic or DD people were rocking.  At least as many rocked in the manner I did, as rocked in any other manner.

I also got told I flapped wrong because sometimes my hands flap side to side instead of up and down.

All of this supposedly meant I was faking autism and doing it badly.

All this told me was that the people involved in making these commentary hadn’t seen a lot of autistic people.  I’d seen hundreds, and believe me, nothing I was doing was that unusual.  In fact, the way I was moving was quite ordinary for an autistic person.  They just hadn’t seen that many autistic people, and took their own lack of experience as cluefulness, or something.

It was very strange.  Surreal.  Upsetting.  But funny in retrospect.