can we stop mocking people who hissed at others/bared their teeth as a warning in their childhood years? it’s not funny to call them freaks. i did that. because nothing else was EVER. respected. i could tell them to stop and they wouldn’t, literally only hissing/trying to bite got ANY freedom.
and guess what! i’m autistic. i didn’t learn the ‘proper’ ways to respond to things until much later. and a lot of kids who do that are neurodivergent and have NEVER been given respect. you mocking them isn’t gonna help shit all.
next time you think of it as cringey, maybe take a step back and think about what you’ve done to earn a reaction like that. because reactions like that are used to express fear and discomfort in animals. and you probably haven’t listened to ANY of the signs before that.
