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We need to stop assuming/pressuming other people's ability to function and support needs.

๐Ÿ Bees ๐Ÿ (they/them) Autism resources in bio #stoptheshock #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

Collectively as autists, and as a wider society. We need to stop assuming/pressuming other people's ability to function and support needs. Especially online. We are all strangers. Nobody here really knows what it is like to live our lives when we step away from the computer. What we tell people here is just snippets and the basis of absolutely nothing anyone else can say or prescribe with anything other than a faux qualification. Especially the assumption that someone's ability to communicate in a text based format means they do not go or are not in fact nonverbal irl, or has any bearing on the other areas of their life.

That's really it. That's the post.

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  • Hi Bees

    I'm sorry but I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. 

    You are correct that none of us know what anyone's lives are really like, we only know what people put in their posts, so we can't know what their needs are unless they tell us. 

    We have to be kind to each other, if we make mistakes. Many of us can get anxious about doing the "wrong" thing in our offline lives, so this should be a safe place where we forgive each other if we misinterpret or misunderstand something.

    Because we are all different, advice which is unhelpful to one person, might help someone else.

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  • Hi Bees

    I'm sorry but I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. 

    You are correct that none of us know what anyone's lives are really like, we only know what people put in their posts, so we can't know what their needs are unless they tell us. 

    We have to be kind to each other, if we make mistakes. Many of us can get anxious about doing the "wrong" thing in our offline lives, so this should be a safe place where we forgive each other if we misinterpret or misunderstand something.

    Because we are all different, advice which is unhelpful to one person, might help someone else.

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