today someone told me that autistic people cannot love you back. the way she described it was “they’re like my dog, she lets me love her but she won’t love me back”. i’m still angry about it, because as an autistic person i love SO DEEPLY and SO STRONGLY that i often end up getting hurt because of it. and every autistic person i’ve ever seen has people they love and adore, but because we don’t show love in a way that’s acceptable to allistic people, they assume we’re just incapable of it. it made me furious, to stand there and have this complete stranger tell me how i love. as if she knows anything about how we show our love and affection to others???? i try my hardest to have faith in humanity but god it is difficult sometimes :/ have other autistic people experienced this? it’s so infuriating, i was so upset that i couldn’t do anything except stare at her
