So the thing is, most of the insanity you see in the news does not affect the average American UNLESS they are marginalized. Ex. Somali immigrants in Minnesota are being horribly treated right now. My family is white and has been citizens for generations, so they take the benefit of the doubt because they don’t see how miserable it is having a different racial/cultural background in the States right now. Even people who are naturalized citizens of America are afraid to go outside in certain cities because of the color of their skin.
It’s not particularly difficult being Autistic (yet!), but the hard thing is that there is so much misinformation about us that you have to be careful who you disclose your disability to.
Not really anything that I’ve seen in person, but all the stuff in the news, everything seems either rude or just ridiculous. And everyone seems against eachother and trying to take away rights (like with immigrants, trans ppl, the stuff they’ve said about autism, etc). And that a lot of my family members voted for it and even after seeing the effects still like it
My brother-in-law who has lived over there way before I got together with my husband (so over 22 years). They have been talking last year about moving to Ireland with his partner from the US, as they don't like it anymore.
