#you are allowed to frame autism positively. i'm not saying autism is an inherently negative thing that every single autistic hates having | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

clown-around-and-find-out · 27 days

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please please PLEASE stop treating autism like it's some "life enhancer" that only makes you take things literally and means you are "honest to a fault 🥺" like i get those can be symptoms. but im tired of seeing a disorder that has made my life and so many other's lives so much more difficult now being turned into "i like using the :3 emoticon a lot and i say silly all the time! omg autistics how do you feel about this spoon?"

#🦈: my posts #you are allowed to frame autism positively. i'm not saying autism is an inherently negative thing that every single autistic hates having #but it gets very tiring to see the struggles and negative side of autism diminished because it's seen as “silly” and its only qualities are #things like being “too honest” or taking things literally or having intense interest in things you like #there are very very difficult symptoms that also come with being autistic and i wish those were acknowledged more than #simply reducing autism to “being silly"#thank you for coming to my ted talk #autism #autism spectrum #asd #autism spectrum disorder #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #autistic #on the spectrum #ableism #🦈: drafts

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