During the first day of Autism Awareness Week I've already seen so many people (specifically NTs) use the wrong words ON PURPOSE. I've seen them try to tell use those aren't the right words.
I'm so fucking sad that there are people who cannot and refuse to see that being autistic is beautiful.
Who insist that not speaking is bad, that stimming is bad, that needing support is bad.
Who think that headbanging and anger and anything harmful an autistic does is only directly related to their autistic identity.
We are autistics in an allistic world. We are GOING TO HAVE struggles. We are going to and be different. Allistics have struggles too, and yet not one of them is wishing to be anything else.
There is no way to be human. Being ND means having different ways of being and that is not bad. That is never bad.
Let us be who we are. Help us be everything we are.
We don't pity allistics who struggle. We don't say "oh, being allistic is bad, look at what it causes. We should try to fix it."
Because the way allistics exist is considered normal, and what we are as autistics isn't normal, we are deemed the ones who have it wrong, that our way of existing is a disorder and we suffer from that.
bUT. bUT we exist differently. DIFFERENTLY. Not less, not more, not anything but different.
Our brains are different and all of our traits, our struggles, everything, is just... it's who we are.
I don't want to be anything but who I am. And it took me SO long to accept that.
If I was allistic, maybe I wouldn't have meltdowns, I don't know. Meltdowns suck. They're scary. They really are.
But... fuck. I'd rather have a thousand meltdowns a day before you ever take away my identity. My existence.
