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Everyone's a little bit autistic...

Joe

At the moment this expression really annoys me, together with "we're all on the spectrum". I don't know if everyone is or I just happen to know a lot of people that are.  I can't suddenly tell if someone is autistic due to my own diagnosis.   I'm fairly newly diagnosed and didn't say anything until I was, because I wasn't sure if people would believe me. 

This expression really bugs me as I feel like it's people not listening to or belittling my lived experience.  I want to challenge it but I don't know how other just cutting people off giving me negative energy, any ideas?

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  • Everyone probably is a bit in different ways. Human experience is a spectrum. However, do these factors cause everyone problems? Probably not. And the problems or difficulties that are there may come from a different source. I think people saying this comes from a place of trying to be empathetic but it often comes across as undermining the autistic experience. I like to use the cake analogy. You might have some eggs and butter but that does not make a cake.

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    I came across something this weekend which said about 1 in 5 people are neurodivergent. I don't know if it's true but if so,  we actually might have things in common with more people than we think. For me, though,  there's always been a feeling inside...."my experience of the world is different to yours" with regards to most people. It's also a question of how different you FEEL among others. (No matter how much you look like you might fit in).

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    I came across something this weekend which said about 1 in 5 people are neurodivergent. I don't know if it's true but if so,  we actually might have things in common with more people than we think. For me, though,  there's always been a feeling inside...."my experience of the world is different to yours" with regards to most people. It's also a question of how different you FEEL among others. (No matter how much you look like you might fit in).

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