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Switcher

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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  • Switcher said:
    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.

    Well I do. I can't speak for anyone else on why they don't though.
    I can only say what made me speak up for myself was I stayed quiet for many years hoping that if I became invisible people would just stop treating me like a peice of dirt, but growing up I realised it wasn't just me out there, and NT society wasn't gonna stop treating me and others like me as subhuman no matter how polite and unobtrusive we are, all the time they can get away with it because really it's just that we exist at all and are of any kind of remote inconvenience to them that they don't like. NT, or any normative kind of people on the whole are usually a very selfish bunch. Even having allies who want to do good by autists I realised that people who aren't in my shoes do a very messy job of trying to explain what it is like to be me and what I need, precisely because they aren't me. So if you want a job done right you gotta do it yourself. I also ran out of shy when society pushed me past a breaking point in my mid 20's.
    If NTs are not gonna step off my toes when I say please they sure as heck can't ignore it when I tell them where to shove it.
    Fortunately the younger generation is learning to be more vocal, and this is just a guess but I suspect the older generations are less so because they've been brow beaten into "fitting in" all their life they've unlearned that rocking to boat and upsetting the status quo is actually a good thing.

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    But it seams like the younger generation does not have a group or movement fighting for our rights why having we gotton togetor yet ?

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