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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.