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

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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  • I suspect that it goes beyond mere ignorance about autism in particular and mental health issues in general, both in real life and online - it is a point blank refusal to see and understand our needs and I’ve seen the same things going on in the gay world, having come out as gay in my teens in the 1980’s despite the progress that has been made with LGBT rights and equality in recent decades, there is still a lot of parallels - many people do make assumptions and are very judgemental discriminatory and dismissive - they have a certain mindset and attitude, a set of preconceived notions about us, where they believe that our condition is somehow not a real condition and all imagined 

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  • I suspect that it goes beyond mere ignorance about autism in particular and mental health issues in general, both in real life and online - it is a point blank refusal to see and understand our needs and I’ve seen the same things going on in the gay world, having come out as gay in my teens in the 1980’s despite the progress that has been made with LGBT rights and equality in recent decades, there is still a lot of parallels - many people do make assumptions and are very judgemental discriminatory and dismissive - they have a certain mindset and attitude, a set of preconceived notions about us, where they believe that our condition is somehow not a real condition and all imagined 

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