Published on 12, July, 2020
Unfortunately, NTs are in the majority - they live in a world built by NTs for NTs and so anyone different will stand out like a sore thumb. If Aspies were in wheelchairs, we'd get more sympathy and understanding - but as we look 'normal', NTs expect you to be normal like them.
There's also the fact that in a minority, only 16% end up working - and of those, most are menial jobs so NT's view of people with autism is not good.
The higher-functioning Aspies are expected to be able to keep their mask up 100% of the time and play at being NTs so no-one has to make allowances for them. It is bothersome for NTs to have to consider anyone outside their blinkered view of the world.
In that sense, as with disability, it becomes a social construct. And as with disability, society should adapt to it - as it does with providing hearing loops, wheelchair ramps, etc.
NTs love to patronise someone obviously less fortunate - we do not look unfortunate therefore deserve no assistance in their eyes.
Ah, but they do. Legally, as well as morally. And I don't consider myself less fortunate than an NT.
Also, ramps and hearing loops are put in place by someone else - in means the average NT need do nothing to consider anyone less fortunate.