I started shifting blame onto them for not knowing why I’m “weird” at family functions that are still quite ableist in rhetoric. I think of that scene at the end of Steven Universe’s Change Your Mind episode when he’s being yelled at for acting like a child and he says “I am a child, what’s your excuse?” I’ll be unapologetically myself, with or without explaining my neurodivergence, and their response or lack thereof is on them… esp since NTs are clearly in the minority at the function 😂

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autistic and I am very rarely fully masking anymore. Except I’m at my dads for the holidays and he doesn’t know or care and my stepmom just thinks I’m weird and if I don’t want to belittled or treated like I’m stupid the mask needs to be a wall around me and needs to be impenetrable and it’s so hard to keep it up

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My mom probably has ocd, my stepdad has autism, my sister has adhd, my brother’s autistic, my baby sister has downs and they all live together, being neurotypical isn’t a thing that exists in our household. But my dad is neurotypical and stepmom is neurotypical and my grandparents are neurotypical. None of them understand why I’m “weird”

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