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   e(Ag)le (silvereagle@furry.engineer)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 20:50:06 JST e(Ag)le

   There is no one with a bigger blind spot for neurodivergence than the kind of unforgiving, ruthless leftist who will put you on very public blast and send their followers after you for saying something that you "should have known" could be interpreted the wrong way by certain people.

   Myself and so many of my peers have been caught up in this so many times that I'm convinced you are no comrade of mine if you don't sincerely understand that socializing is fucking hard on a good day, and when you have social challenges it can be damn near impossible to say exactly the perfect thing every time.

   If you create an unwinnable minefield situation for any neurodivergent person around you and you aren't willing to discuss things with them and, more importantly, to forgive people with good hearts who say the wrong thing, then you are, to borrow your own language, an ableist fuck.

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     e(Ag)le (silvereagle@furry.engineer)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 20:50:31 JST e(Ag)le

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     If I seem furious about this, it's because I FUCKING AM.

     I'm in a ton of communities with people who live with varying degrees of autism spectrum disorder, who have the kindest warmest hearts of anyone you've ever seen, who would fight for you no matter what and have never ever tried to take your rights away, but who can't socialize to save their lives, and don't know (or don't care) about the questions you're "not supposed to ask" or the things you're "not supposed to say", or they've seen it for what it is, which is an unwinnable arbitrary game of unspoken cues that they could never get an upper hand on if they tried. I'm one of those people myself.

     These are NOT your enemies.

     They're also easy people for powerful influencers to call out and pick on, and about the easiest folks to have their spirits and lives crushed by the resulting backlash.

     If you don't have space in your heart for patience and consideration with folks, you are doing the movement a BIG disservice.