May 26
so many people say they're supportive of autistic people and then get real mean the moment someone displays genuine literal thinking.
it will literally never be obvious to everyone that you do not mean what your words are saying. we have spent a long time learning to understand and recognize why people do this and it STILL gets us into trouble bc people assume not intuitively knowing what they actually mean is the same thing as a bad faith reading.
you don't have to completely overhaul the way you speak for people with different communication styles but you should seriously learn to not be mean when people have trouble reading between the lines. for autism or any reason actually.
#anxietyposting#exhost.log#pigeon.log#also for that matter don't assume everyone who says the thing you are saying#has exactly the same understanding of the subject as you#so many instances of 'NOBODY means this thing literally it's bad faith to say we do'#followed by a person who does definitely mean that shit literally