Actual Autist

He/it. Actually autistic. Queer (TME). TERFs get blocked immediately.

[allistiphobic]

I remember watching this TikTok from this Autism Mom who was crying about how her Autistic kid is ruining her life by pouring all her dish soap down the drain and another laundry list of supposed godawful things.

Meanwhile the whole time I'm thinking "this is literally shit any allistic kid can and would do. Why the fuck are you blaming your kid's Autism?"

[allistiphobic]

I'd love to by fully open and honest with everyone about my boundaries but I don't think "if you're not autistic or you don't give me Autism Vibes(TM) I want nothing to do with you because I cannot keep allowing allistics into my life when all of them have been abusive towards me in some way" will go over well with most people.

Unfortunately it's not acceptable for me to refuse to be friends with someone based on their autism status. But every day I inch closer and closer to becoming a mean, angry autist who doesn't fuck with allistics At All.

[allistiphobic]

This means nothing really because I don't care if other people like Sesame Street still, and I do think Sesame Street has done A Lot of good for marginalized children and marginalized communities in general...

...which is why it still fucking baffles me that they took the route of supporting Autism Speaks.

Not only supporting them, but doubling down just like Ty did when autistic people were rightfully like "Don't support the anti-autism, pro-eugenics company, please."

And then everyone collectively stopped giving a shit because it's their beloved little puppet show and "Jim Henson would have NEVER" and whatever other bullshit people used to justify themselves.

(Also the fact that no one seems to give a fuck about autistic children until they've already been murdered/traumatized, but I digress).

Like I don't care anymore if other people like it. I used to be a HUGE advocate for dropping Sesame Street after the A$ announcement. But now I just assume most people enjoying the show either know and are autistic themselves, or don't know and are blissfully unaware that Elmo shilled a eugenics program and one point.

I mean god fucking damn you people could make sure the divorce episode was never seen again because the message was harmful to kids, but giving parents resources to a step-by-step guide to abusing their autistic children isn't bad enough to at least try and stop THAT episode from circulating???? Fucking Christ.

[allistiphobic]

Why do allistics need "autism simulators" and videos made by autism moms to understand autistic people? You could literally just talk to any fucking autistic person and listen to us but instead you have to get your information from poorly made video games and abusive parents. It's lazy and harmful and I'm tired of having to tell allistics to fucking talk to ACTUAL autistic people.