@KatyElphinstone I've been saying for years now that if the numbers were reversed and autistic people were the majority, a lot of the things we think of as autistic traits would be way less common than you'd think. A lot of of these traits (not even the allistic laundry list of things that make us different are responses to living in a world that isn't made for us.

@JoBlakely @sasutina13 @KatyElphinstone One of my favorite things anyone has ever said of me, and this was said with affection not malice, one NT friend of mine who loved gossip once exclaimed in frustration "You're so annoyingly unknowable!" To this day I'm proud of that moniker But as with anything I find funny, there's definitely a lot of truth in it, I am pretty unknowable, especially to NTs. I guess we all are. And we all know they fear what they can't know...

@Andii AI slop much? "this isnt X; it's Y" phrasing@oscarjiminy