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Did being autistic make you more tolerant?

Cece

Hi.

Long before AS was a thing known to me, I have always been different, didn't quite fit in, always felt like something just wasn't right or natural to me in life.. this was an underlying feeling that I have always had in life which was really somehow lifted (or rather validated) when I learnt of AS.

But I think that this different feeling contributed to my lack of bias towards a certain group of people. I.e., I have always understood people are different and was ok with that, managed to live life without too much intolerance to cloud it.

Can't help but wonder if being different is the only way for people to be tolerant towards other difference ( colour, race, religion, sexual identity or orientation etc)

That is of course not to say that all autistic people are unbiased or that all NTs are biased... I just think feeling different helps a person understand that others can be different too!

What are your thoughts?

Thanks.

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  • Politically I have moved in the last few years since my diagnosis. The general state of the UK has massivley contributed to that but I am now much more left wing and tolerant of people who may not have as much as me. I still find some groups difficult to deal with, I am still  no less tolerant of children , good job I chose not to have any. Although its more there parents that I am no less tolerant of!

    I grew up in the standard racist 1970's working class household. It was nothing vindictive but my parents, and society as a whole, were stereotype casual racists of the era. I still see color, just as I see peoples sex and size, I can still laugh at racist jokes, but believe in live and let live.

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  • Politically I have moved in the last few years since my diagnosis. The general state of the UK has massivley contributed to that but I am now much more left wing and tolerant of people who may not have as much as me. I still find some groups difficult to deal with, I am still  no less tolerant of children , good job I chose not to have any. Although its more there parents that I am no less tolerant of!

    I grew up in the standard racist 1970's working class household. It was nothing vindictive but my parents, and society as a whole, were stereotype casual racists of the era. I still see color, just as I see peoples sex and size, I can still laugh at racist jokes, but believe in live and let live.

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