I’d known I had Asperger’s practically all my life, but it wasn’t until much later that I’d heard it be called “a disability” and I took a lot of offence to it. It looks like this was actually the first meme I ever made.

  • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    an autistic community taking a meme too literally

    (8 downvotes… Pretty sure OP didn’t actually mean they recently threatened to kill someone…)

    In all seriousness though, I sorta get both sides here. It absolutely makes things tough. It can even be a kind of handicap in social situations etc. But for me anyways, the sort of “superpowers” of being able to focus on the details and analyse, and to be able to hyperfocus on my interests outweighs the bad. So I think I get what OP means here about getting angry when someone throws you in with “disabled” or says it’s a “mental disorder” as if it’s something wrong that can be cured. It’s not. For me at least, it’s just who I am.

    That said… Yeah, being different absolutely sucks sometimes too.