Theres Nothing To Fix - Tumblr Posts

This. This is the post I need to show my family. Thank you for putting this into words.

Explaining autism to an allistic is exhausting.

Because most of the time, in my experience, they don't listen to what I'm telling them that it's a disability and that we force our square shaped selves into the circular world everyday and that slowly erodes the edges of who we are.

They're looking for hidden meanings in order to get Autistics to behave more neurotypical. They want to see us become circles.

I explained why we don't use functioning labels any more. And they will say "yes, but you do function more than some." As if it's an "Ah ha! Caught you!" moment.

I was even told today that I obviously find this all easy. Because I hold it together at work.

And I just get so tired trying to explain that I'm not "Aspie". I'm not "high functioning". I'm not "on the spectrum". I'm not "mostly neurotypical".

We're Autistic, goddamnit.

Where are these ads for me?!?

I just get some telling me to "fix" my libido qwq

Twitter ads work cuz there are a lot of boomers on Twitter and they'll buy Oreos or capitol one or whatever.

They don't work here cuz no one here likes corporations plus the ads we have aren't so much selling us things as trying to confuse and entrap us in the strange fae realm where they reside.

Examples:

What am I being sold?

Nothing.

Except perhaps a world so different from my own that to simply gaze upon it would inspire an unalterable and incomprehensible metamorphosis of my brain, and I could never return home with it intact.