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   Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 08:41:45 JST Yohan Yukiya Seseㆍ사요한・謝雪矢

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   • 💝Liv / Cooki🍪

   @LivingCooki Personally, I can't blame people who were told #autism is this and that.

   The problem is, if people are not willing to accept what they've been told was wrong and that they need to correct it.

   I've met people who were told this and that re: autism, but after I talked to them and explained it, they changed, some even became allies, or at least an advocate of sharing the correct information.

   I've also met people who won't change and stick to what they were told or what they think is right. They simply won't. It is them that, for me, are the ones making things worse.

   ^_^

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     💝Liv / Cooki🍪 (livingcooki@0w0.is)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 08:41:47 JST 💝Liv / Cooki🍪

     I’m so tired of autism being talked about like a disease

     Autism isn’t necessarily a disability. Yes, there are people with autism who struggle a lot with many things directly because of it and I’m not trying to undermine their struggles. But there are also a lot of people with autism who don’t have any problems because of it, well other than the ones created by society. It’s called neurodivergence and not neurodeficiency for a reason. It’s when the brain develops in a different way than typical, not a wrong way. It’s not (again, necessarily) wrong, it’s simply different

     There are even studies that show that having autism can be a good thing

     A lot of the struggles come from the bigotry and how this society wasn’t built in a welcoming way for the atypical, in some ways intentionally. And people thinking it’s an illness because that’s what they have been told and simply don’t know the truth is making the problem worse