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Autistic girl community 2w
Was just talking to this guy who added me on snap, told him I'm autistic, and he said "I think we are all on the spectrum a little bit" wtf do I do 🫩
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Anonymous 2w

You can correct him and explain the physiological/developmental, neurological differences that occur with ASD, you can let it go and just have to live with talking with someone who trivializes your disability(and probably won’t be too understanding when you have rough days), or you can tell him that it isn’t gonna work out/ghost him🤷‍♀️ it’s a hard thing to navigate

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Anonymous 2w

i would definitely use it as a chance to educate him if you’re up to it! it sounds like it would benefit him to know. he should know already though. i like to tell people the spectrum refers to the “spiky profiles” that autistic people have. not a spectrum from less autistic to more autistic. there are several specific characteristics that are either more or less pronounced in autistic people. that’s why autistic people can be so different from each other in terms of presentation & difficulties

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Anonymous 2w

So what happened, cause I have no Idea what he meant

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

The thing is I told him I'm autistic bc he mentioned he works as an intervention specialist for adults with autism 😭 so I thought he would understand

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

That is very disturbing😅 he should NOT have that job. It might be worthwhile to just have an honest conversation with him about it and be like “hey, I know you were probably trying to be nice by saying that, but it is commonly used as a way to trivialize a disability that affects every aspect of my life and is upsetting to hear. I know that that wasn’t your intent, but I felt like this needed to be discussed if we’re going to keep talking.” Or something like that🤷‍♀️

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