Published on 12, July, 2020
A lot of bad things happen because of the belief that some people are more important than others. So, that’s one reason to question hierarchies. Asking questions is often the beginning to challenging or stopping bad behaviour by people who apparently ‘know best’ – which is precisely why it’s yet another reason to ignore, exclude, or hurt autistic people.
I've shared further thoughts in a YouTube video. Channel is same name as my pseudonym. Happy to hear your thoughts.
I was always getting into various troubles by not taking into account 'authority' in my thinking. Mostly church, sometimes work. I think we are right on this!
For the most part I avoid authority figures and organisations, when I do have to deeal with them I either go in straight and treat them as equals which rather throws a spanner in thier works or I go straight into stroppy teenager mode and believe me if being stroppy was an olympic sport I'd be a gold medalist. I've had quite a few would be dictators give up on me, often when they find I can't be beaten into submission, shouting at me is just noise, punishments don't work either because I ignore them or just endure them.
I would have been British champion at 'throwing a strop' back in the late 90s/early 00s. However, turns out I wasn't just being mardy - I was undiagnosed autistic, asserting my right to be considered too.
No one has told me I'm stroppy or stubborn because I'm autistic - I'm saying that, reflecting on my past when I was undiagnosed, I realise now that my 'stubbornness' and 'moodiness' can be largely explained by being autistic and misunderstood.