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@callieprime @supesbutch Most of the big posts are directly, unambiguously comparing puberty *to* rape which doesn’t even make sense under the definition you’re referring to

@callieprime @supesbutch That’s not what the word is used for anymore, and it’s not what the people saying it mean. If so, their argument when people say “that isn’t rape” would but what you’re saying. Not what they’re saying. Because they’re referring to rape as it’s used in the modern day

puberty for trans people is NOT RAPE. puberty for trans people CAN be violating and severely traumatic. puberty for trans people can have lasting impact on their body. control over trans people's access to puberty blockers is a form of taking bodily autonomy away from (1/)

@ginandkoosh @AliArthPainter Your previous statement that you wouldn’t struggle with autism if society was accommodating is still incorrect then Even when accommodated for, the struggles will still be struggles. It’s still a disability, just one with accommodations to make it less difficult

@GrabaTurk @AliArthPainter Accommodation does not mean you have no difficulties in life. It means you are given what you need to deal with them.

Someone just called me ableist because I pointed out that autism is a disability. It is a disability. I don't like the phrase 'suffers from autism', but it is accurate to say that I'd still struggle in an accessible society. The projection is off the chart.

@ginandkoosh @AliArthPainter Not all things can be accommodated for. You can’t fully accommodate for a dislike of changing routines, sometimes shit just happens and it’s difficult. Reasonable accommodation is the term used for a reason

@AliArthPainter If you are not accommodated, it isn't accessible.

@humanheart___ @dyinlevi Lisan Al-Badguy

@dyinlevi does that say bro killed SIXTY ONE billion people?????

Timothee Chalamet saying this line is going to have me crying in the theatre...

@NotGeorgebtw @steakmajam @teachrobotslove Like Down syndrome isn’t a socially constructed set of behaviors and symptoms we’ve decided to group together, it’s a discrete and specific thing. Autism is defined socially, but that doesn’t make it any less real or important or anything

@NotGeorgebtw @steakmajam @teachrobotslove The category of brain differences we recognize as autism are arbitrary and socially constructed yeah. The differences themselves aren’t like choices, or fake or whatever. That’s brain chemistry. But autism as a category of behaviors and differences is still socially constructed

Every depressed, anxious failure of a person on this website will tell you with total confidence they understand the secrets of existence, and every person with autism (A disorder that is defined by problems with socializing) will tell you they understand people better than anyone else.

@MRiggity @NaClyCem @danishacarterr Well sure it sucks but that doesn’t make it any less true that it’s good to do

@GrabaTurk @NaClyCem @danishacarterr My point is we try everyday, and yet we still get told we're doing it wrong and get looked at funny. Its exhausting

biweekly autistic people get on this app and pretend to be superior to others because they are “aWaRE tHat EVeRyOneS prEtENdInG” and refuse to do so.. and then two days later cry about how hard it is to make friends 💀 it’s almost as if everyone is aware socializing involves ‘pretending’ and we do it anyway because it’s how you create a space to form real + deeper connections

@MRiggity @NaClyCem @danishacarterr Do you disagree with the idea that as an autistic person it is good and beneficial to try to build social skills and connections? Because “you gotta try sometimes” is a pretty light version of the above

@NaClyCem @danishacarterr Attempting to be chatty is part of masking, a thing autistic people do every day that is actively detrimental to us

@DoomerTapes @tome835 @SlapLordActual Do you imagine liberals whimpering for you often? On hands and knees?

@tome835 @SlapLordActual Buddy you'd be wimperin like a liberal if you ever saw me!!

PRO TIP(yearly reminder) Use 9mm shot for your first round in your home defense handgun. This gives you the opportunity to pop the intruder with something non lethal to scare em off or stun them. Followed by a carry round of your choice.

@NotGeorgebtw @steakmajam @teachrobotslove There is no autism gene or anything; it’s an arbitrary collection of heritable, often unrelated traits and behaviors that once you’ve met an arbitrary number of them, you’re autistic. It think saying the “concept of autism” is perfectly fine and accurate.

@steakmajam @teachrobotslove "the concept of autism" buddy it's a physiological problem in the brain. It's like saying "the social construct of down syndrome" because people have Turner syndrome. It's defined as what it is

@AmatsuAki @MariaVerdeGA @biheretic I still think that’s a bit incorrect. Learning social skills isn’t a subconscious thing. Even people who wouldn’t call it practicing or training their social skills are doing focused, hard work to make them better. Autistic people are way more aware of the work required though

@MariaVerdeGA @biheretic Bad wording on my part, I meant more like, you guys get used to it and do the whole thing subconsciously. We have to consistently be thinking about it and it's a hard effort to keep up (Ergo the joke being we spend more time thinking about them and can explain them in words)

i like the genre of tweet on here that's just autistic people giving advice to neurotypicals on how to be social like it really tickles me and they should keep doing it

@PoseidonOilRig @damnitchristine @triadfox @boreddeleuzian To be clear on my comparison; blind people are oppressed by the ostracizing they receive by sighted people for the assumption they cannot function in society; or for not being able to use signs. Fundamentally separate from the existence and common usage of signs as a whole

@PoseidonOilRig @damnitchristine @triadfox @boreddeleuzian I don’t think the end result of small talk and social cue stuff is oppression of neurodivergent people. They’re oppressed by the ostracization they get for not participating in it. Those are separate things, that’s like saying blind people are oppressed by signs being used

I love how neurotypicals will talk about a very stupid thing that they do, and they say "autistics are actually bad at this". I'm going to say it: they are not bad at anything, you are just bad at existing and you're constantly making it our problem.

@PoseidonOilRig @boreddeleuzian @damnitchristine @triadfox Asking people directly doesn’t give you the same information that reading social cues do. It just doesn’t. Those aren’t directly comparable. At best if you can’t read social cues it’ll give you *something* to work with; but it’s a completely different

@PoseidonOilRig @damnitchristine @triadfox @boreddeleuzian I think it’s good, if someone isn’t engaging in small talk, to use direct language. That kind of accommodation is good. But you were very explicitly arguing that small talk and the like were inferior, pointless, and replaceable by direct communication which isn’t true

@PoseidonOilRig @damnitchristine @triadfox @boreddeleuzian Hear me out. The social language of small talk is fundamentally different from direct communication. It gets different information out, it has a different purpose and the two don’t replace each other. I know you probably disagree but that’s why I said “giving up” on those skills

@PoseidonOilRig @damnitchristine @triadfox @boreddeleuzian Expecting people to give up on social skills and to abandon any pretense of social subtleties because you think theyre pointless and stupid is stupid. If you struggle with them, ok. But being hostile to them isn’t, and being an ass and pretending they’re pointless isn’t either

@boreddeleuzian @PoseidonOilRig @damnitchristine @triadfox If you’d like I can expand on any of that but I just wanted to give you the short answer, as to not blow you up with like 5 paragraphs

@boreddeleuzian @PoseidonOilRig @damnitchristine @triadfox Small talk, and other forms of cue-based non-direct communication are irreplaceable tools to find out information in people you dont know well. And thinking they’re inferior to direct communication is incorrect and very damaging to learning social skills. That’s my thesis