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[feotakahari]

 "Codify in your charter that because allistics are, by nature, better at playing politics than autistics, any organization that allows them to have any real power will end up being run by them, with the actually autistic people forced to the outside. Any time someone suggests giving an NT a position of power, repeat what’s in the charter. Some are gonna say “that’s insulting” or “that’s reductive” but seriously, what defines autism is difficulty with the kind of social head games that humans use for many purposes, and one of those purposes is obtaining power over other humans. The fact that NTs are better than autistics at obtaining power over other humans is not one that can be argued against. (There are many allistic neurodivergents who are probably just as bad at it as we are, for possibly different reasons, but on average an NT will always be better than an autistic at politics-playing."

This is a bizarrely skewed idea of "neurotypical," and it reminds me of when asexuals think that people who aren't asexual are obsessed with sex and defined by sex and will constantly demand sex. The more you define yourself by a binary, the less your view of people on the other side of that binary will have any relationship with reality. 

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[lb_lee]

Okay, so I'm allistic. But I think I've had enough autistic friends in ASAN and listened to enough of their conversations to feel fairly sure that autism isn't just "being bad at social bullshit." That's... kinda a misnomer that is a lot of why my AFAB autistic friends couldn't get diagnosed; they were trained and socialized very hard to be able to interact, and thus "couldn't be autistic." Even though they had other autistic things, like sensory issues, meltdowns, hyperfocus, echolalia, etc. And they ended up having trouble with getting access measures because of it! So clearly that idea is causing harm to people!

I mean, I feel like in fairly recent years, I've seen more and more people treating "autistic" to mean "bad at social, gets mistreated due to it," and it really gives me the spooks. Because by that definition, we'd've been autistic as kids. BUT WE WEREN'T, and we aren't, and I kinda think it's a disservice to everyone to miscategorize us!

Like, yeah we use repetitive stereotyped movements to self-regulate, we get sensory overload, sometimes we have to hide from people, but it's not due to autism; it's a dissociation/PTSD thing, for me anyway. (And different system members here have significantly different tolerance levels. I've NEVER seen Mac stim.)

I'm probably not expressing myself well. But it BOTHERS me, even though I'm having trouble expressing exactly WHY.

--Rogan