as small as a world and as large as alone

I guess not all sorts of autistic culture are things I totally disidentify with.  But everything I’ve ever heard called Autistic Culture ™ by large groups of autistic people, and celebrated as such… meh.  It’s always stuff created by and for other types of autistic people.  Which is great for them, and I don’t want to deny them their cultures that they’ve created.  But I never seem to fit.  And I’ve had people try to force me to think I ought to fit, and that never ends well either.  There just haven’t been a lot of autistic cultures created that had autistic people like me in mind.  Instead of finding myself in a big autistic culture, I’ve had to find myself with individual autistic people I clicked with.

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4. chavisory said: *yup yup* Most of the autistic culture that I really identify with is with individuals/tiny groups of people offline, or certain art/music/written works, not in what most of autistic culture gets identified as, esp. online.
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