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Hello everyone,

I have a question for the community. As someone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), I have noticed that people with ASD often don't stand up for themselves like other minorities do. I wonder why this is the case?

We see people from other minorities fighting for their rights, making their voices heard, and advocating for themselves. However, I feel that this is not the case for individuals with ASD. We often keep to ourselves, avoid conflict, and are generally less assertive.

I believe that it is important for people with ASD to stand up for themselves and to advocate for their rights. This is not only important for our own well-being, but also for the betterment of society as a whole. We can't expect change to happen if we don't speak up take action that inpacts the system which keeps us in these chains ?

So, why do you think people with ASD don't stand up for themselves like other minorities? And what can we do to change this? I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions on this topic.

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  • In part I think it’s the masking. I think if you try to mask long enough, especially if you’re not good at it, it becomes a sort of self hate. Instead of blaming the world for not accepting you the way you were born you blame yourself for not masking better and all the anger for others miss treatment turns inwards instead of outwards.

    it’s like if a black man painted himself white and then blamed himself for the racism he experiences when his impression of a white man wasn’t believe-able enough. The principal difference being black parents don’t encourage their kids to pretend they aren’t black but parents of autistic children are always encouraging them to pretend they aren’t autistic.

    that’s why we don’t have a credible organised autistic civil rights movement. And we badly need one.

  • in reply to Peter

    That is quite astute Peter.
    Particularly because it's not that self hatred never occurs in other groups, there's often that "I have a X/Y/Z friend and they don't mind it (it being whatever bigotted thing)." (Sorry but I may have to TW here for no doubt I will have to make another possibly unsettling quote of this problematic mindset.) And the people of those groups that end up as appologists for teh abuse their groups recieve because they have been taught that they are "other" and somehow less worthy so they become suck ups to the system. "Don't kick MY head in, I'm not like all those OTHER people."
    But you are onto something as it happens less in other groups, and particularly non-whites, probably because there is no closet for race like there is for being LGBT+ or Neurodivergent.

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  • in reply to Peter

    That is quite astute Peter.
    Particularly because it's not that self hatred never occurs in other groups, there's often that "I have a X/Y/Z friend and they don't mind it (it being whatever bigotted thing)." (Sorry but I may have to TW here for no doubt I will have to make another possibly unsettling quote of this problematic mindset.) And the people of those groups that end up as appologists for teh abuse their groups recieve because they have been taught that they are "other" and somehow less worthy so they become suck ups to the system. "Don't kick MY head in, I'm not like all those OTHER people."
    But you are onto something as it happens less in other groups, and particularly non-whites, probably because there is no closet for race like there is for being LGBT+ or Neurodivergent.

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