#autisticjoy — Public Fediverse posts
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Part of my Autistic joy is finding beauty in details and patterns. I live in one of the poorest, ugliest cities in Germany, but every day I find something that makes me smile.
#UrbanPhotography #FensterFreitag #AutisticJoy -
Good morning ☀️
#Nature #Photography #AutisticJoy -
Nature created abstract art this morning.
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#Autism #AutisticJoy #Neurodivergent #Neurodiversity
Ahh the intensity. I can never tell if it's a blessing or a curse.
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Dear night owls 🦉
Thank you for your night shift. As an early bird, I caught the morning sun for you and bring it into your feed. ☀️
#SilentSunday #Photography #AutisticJoy -
Good morning. ☀️
#Bloomscrolling #nature #AutisticJoy -
The bright sun shining through the fog created an almost surreal atmosphere this morning. ☀️
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Good morning ☀️
#Bloomscrolling #Nature #AutisticJoy -
@daisy I’m not a #gunzel but I’m loving this thread and am :1000: % here for #AutisticJoy ✨💕✨ 🚆
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@daisy I’m not a #gunzel but I’m loving this thread and am :1000: % here for #AutisticJoy ✨💕✨ 🚆
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@daisy I’m not a #gunzel but I’m loving this thread and am :1000: % here for #AutisticJoy ✨💕✨ 🚆
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@daisy I’m not a #gunzel but I’m loving this thread and am :1000: % here for #AutisticJoy ✨💕✨ 🚆
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@daisy I’m not a #gunzel but I’m loving this thread and am :1000: % here for #AutisticJoy ✨💕✨ 🚆
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During the early morning Lumi and I can take our walk through the graveyard in solitude. The light before sunrise made it look like a fairytale garden again today.
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It is that deep.
Reality is complex and feelings can be intense and should not be suppressed. Allowing yourself to feel deeply and acknowledging problems is rational and necessary for personal growth.
It’s your decision if you want to stay on the surface, be boring asf and mourn your inner emptiness to be perceived as cool or if you take a deep dive into the ocean and allow yourself to have intense moments of joy, pain and deep connections with your inner and outer world.
I know it’s an individual thing and unmasking neurodivergence can be a question of safety, but for me personally the latter is an important part of being AuDHD.
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #neurodivergent #AutisticJoy
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This morning the pink flowers caught my attention. 🌸
#Bloomscrolling #AutisticJoy -
I took this picture before sunrise this morning. The colours were so intense that they already caught my attention from afar.
#Bloomscrolling #AutisticJoy -
You think you know the story, but have you heard the truth? 💡
This month, let’s debunk the myths and celebrate the reality of the autistic experience. No filters, no stereotypes—just the truth. ♾️
#TheTruthAboutAutism #AutisticJoy #AcceptanceInAction #UnionStrong #LosAngelesCounty #AutismAwarenessDay #WorldAutismAwarenessDay
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Gestern war ich in der #yayoikusama Ausstellung im Museum Ludwig in Köln.
Kusamas Kunst ist für mich visuelles Stimming der schönsten Art.
Das Ticket konnte ich vorab online kaufen.
Für mich war es ein rundum gelungener Nachmittag 😍
Das Ticket konnte ich vorab online mit einem Schwerbehinderungsrabatt kaufen.
@autistics#visualstimming #kunstundkultur #autisticjoy #autistischefreude
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Gestern war ich in der #yayoikusama Ausstellung im Museum Ludwig in Köln.
Kusamas Kunst ist für mich visuelles Stimming der schönsten Art.
Das Ticket konnte ich vorab online kaufen.
Für mich war es ein rundum gelungener Nachmittag 😍
Das Ticket konnte ich vorab online mit einem Schwerbehinderungsrabatt kaufen.
@autistics#visualstimming #kunstundkultur #autisticjoy #autistischefreude
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Gestern war ich in der #yayoikusama Ausstellung im Museum Ludwig in Köln.
Kusamas Kunst ist für mich visuelles Stimming der schönsten Art.
Das Ticket konnte ich vorab online kaufen.
Für mich war es ein rundum gelungener Nachmittag 😍
Das Ticket konnte ich vorab online mit einem Schwerbehinderungsrabatt kaufen.
@autistics#visualstimming #kunstundkultur #autisticjoy #autistischefreude
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Gestern war ich in der #yayoikusama Ausstellung im Museum Ludwig in Köln.
Kusamas Kunst ist für mich visuelles Stimming der schönsten Art.
Das Ticket konnte ich vorab online kaufen.
Für mich war es ein rundum gelungener Nachmittag 😍
Das Ticket konnte ich vorab online mit einem Schwerbehinderungsrabatt kaufen.
@autistics#visualstimming #kunstundkultur #autisticjoy #autistischefreude
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Gestern war ich in der #yayoikusama Ausstellung im Museum Ludwig in Köln.
Kusamas Kunst ist für mich visuelles Stimming der schönsten Art.
Das Ticket konnte ich vorab online kaufen.
Für mich war es ein rundum gelungener Nachmittag 😍
Das Ticket konnte ich vorab online mit einem Schwerbehinderungsrabatt kaufen.
@autistics#visualstimming #kunstundkultur #autisticjoy #autistischefreude
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ooh, got to join in with this 'Autism is a spectrum' #Neurodivergence #Neuridiversity #Neurodiverse #autismacceptancemonth #actuallyautistic #autisticJoy #Autism #Autistic
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hxnuzpppyxaxc7wjzm7ltuwk/post/3mijvo53mac24 -
ooh, got to join in with this 'Autism is a spectrum' #Neurodivergence #Neuridiversity #Neurodiverse #autismacceptancemonth #actuallyautistic #autisticJoy #Autism #Autistic
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hxnuzpppyxaxc7wjzm7ltuwk/post/3mijvo53mac24 -
ooh, got to join in with this 'Autism is a spectrum' #Neurodivergence #Neuridiversity #Neurodiverse #autismacceptancemonth #actuallyautistic #autisticJoy #Autism #Autistic
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hxnuzpppyxaxc7wjzm7ltuwk/post/3mijvo53mac24 -
ooh, got to join in with this 'Autism is a spectrum' #Neurodivergence #Neuridiversity #Neurodiverse #autismacceptancemonth #actuallyautistic #autisticJoy #Autism #Autistic
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hxnuzpppyxaxc7wjzm7ltuwk/post/3mijvo53mac24 -
My routines not only help me functioning in everyday life and carry me through difficult times, they also make me experience the best day of my life every day. 🤗
#AutisticJoy #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #neurodivergent @autistics
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✨Happy World Autism Acceptance Month✨ #autismacceptancemonth #actuallyautistic #autisticJoy #Autism #Autistic
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CW: Church (building), music, autistic joy
Today I experienced such an intense moment of autistic joy during my walk with Lumi.
In the evening we usually go for a short walk through the small park around a beautiful old church in our neighborhood. While we were doing so, I could hear the sound of the organ and people singing from the inside.
I moved closer to the church and it sounded and felt like the music came out of the building itself, like the stones and the glass were singing. It really touched my heart on a deep level. The whole building became a huge instrument.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticJoy #AuDHD #neurodivergent #music @autistics
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@zigi_now9
I just did. I love my cordless vacuum cleaner so much. 🥰 It turned a household task that was difficult for me, because of executive dysfunction and sensory issues (noise, dust, warm smelly air) into autistic joy (dancing with a cute little machine 🤗). -
I still think that Dylan Thomas' "Fern Hill" is a perfect poem... So I'm sharing it here, if you need a poem today. Maybe read it out loud, it's got such a lovely music to it.
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Just a casual work day… :chickArtist:
… making fidgets :) This is a ‘galaxy’ Zorble! It features both a galaxy black and sparkling blue/purple elixir filament to create a really pretty visual effect. ✨
Perfectly pocketable. Perfectly squishable.
https://brittbuilds3d.etsy.com
I offer 20% off my entire store to all Mastodon users —> Use code MASTO20 as checkout.
#BrittBuilds3D #SmallBusiness #ADHD #AutisticJoy
*For orders outside the U.S. or Canada, please DM me. 🫶🏻
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Another anecdote of autistic joy.
This one takes place after the first Addams Family movie came out. Two neurodivergent friends and I (one was autistic, one ADHD, with me audhd; funny how we tend to form these trios) would go to the same dollar theater several times a week to go watch this movie. The employees there came to recognize us. We'd fill the time before the movie singing the lyrics to the TV show's theme song (with appropriate finger snapping of course). I even started bringing printouts of the lyrics in case anyone else wanted to join in. No one ever did though. In fact, there was seldom more than a few people in the theater with us. Maybe for the best? :blob_cat_giggle:
And since the three of us were also playing the Vampire ttrpg at the time, our GM decided--after us having watched the movie one afternoon--to play a game right afterwards where our characters were invited to an Addams party. What a blast that was!
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Does anyone like to hear anecdotes of autistic joy?
I just read a post talking about autistic people's love of trains, and while I don't share that particular one exactly, I do have one or two other loves when it comes to infrastructure.
When I was in elementary school, we had a vending machine for milk, but it was always out of order. This made me sad because there was just something about getting nourishment from a machine that captured me. It wasn't until the last day of school that, on my way out with my mother, I noticed that the machine was now working. I insisted that she buy me some milk from it, which I'm sure seemed weird, but even by then I was used to being unusual.
The apex of this particular love came when my older brother took me to the college he was going to (I was still pre-teen at that point). I don't remember why we went there, but he took me to the lunchroom (or whatever it was called) to get something to eat. All along one wall was a bank of vending machines of every kind. And along another wall were floor to ceiling windows overlooking the airport (we were a few stories up).
The high I felt, eating my favorite soup* from a can both from and pre-heated by a machine while watching planes come and go was indescribable. I desperately wanted to go back but alas, never got to.
* Actually I'm not sure if it was my favorite soup at the time, or if that's when it became my favorite soup. 🤷
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On a separate but kind of related note to my most recent post, Entrapta from SPOP has been genuinely good for me.
Thinking of "What Would Entrapta Do" has literally helped me move past moments I'd normally ruminate on to a self-destructive level. Her ability to simply be herself, do her own thing, and find joy in it so frequently, is something that (after a lot of work) I've been able to start emulating more. Joy over shame.
Even if only a bit for now.
I'm getting there. :blobfoxheart:
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On a separate but kind of related note to my most recent post, Entrapta from SPOP has been genuinely good for me.
Thinking of "What Would Entrapta Do" has literally helped me move past moments I'd normally ruminate on to a self-destructive level. Her ability to simply be herself, do her own thing, and find joy in it so frequently, is something that (after a lot of work) I've been able to start emulating more. Joy over shame.
Even if only a bit for now.
I'm getting there. :blobfoxheart:
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On a separate but kind of related note to my most recent post, Entrapta from SPOP has been genuinely good for me.
Thinking of "What Would Entrapta Do" has literally helped me move past moments I'd normally ruminate on to a self-destructive level. Her ability to simply be herself, do her own thing, and find joy in it so frequently, is something that (after a lot of work) I've been able to start emulating more. Joy over shame.
Even if only a bit for now.
I'm getting there. :blobfoxheart:
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On a separate but kind of related note to my most recent post, Entrapta from SPOP has been genuinely good for me.
Thinking of "What Would Entrapta Do" has literally helped me move past moments I'd normally ruminate on to a self-destructive level. Her ability to simply be herself, do her own thing, and find joy in it so frequently, is something that (after a lot of work) I've been able to start emulating more. Joy over shame.
Even if only a bit for now.
I'm getting there. :blobfoxheart:
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the light was good on yesterday's walk so here is some handsome lichen on tree bark.
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Dear Autscape attendees and allies,
We at Autscape are very happy to announce that registration for #OnlineAutscape2026 “Evolving Autistic Space Online” is now open!
The event will run from 6th to 8th February. We will be using Zoom webinars for the presentations and a dedicated Discord server for our social space.
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/
### Tickets ###
To book your ticket, please visit:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/registration
### Programme ###
We're very proud of our incredible line-up of presenters! Please have a look:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/presenters
We are particularly grateful to stand-up poet, spoken word artist, broadcaster and neurodivergent advocate Kate Fox (known from BBC Radio 4 and the Glastonbury Festival, among others), who graciously volunteered time in her busy schedule to give a creative writing workshop entitled “Radical self-acceptance through creative writing and reading”.
The main programme schedule is now ready as well:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/schedule
Not listed there are informal discussions and activities; these may be announced later, or even organised on the spot at the event.
### Spread the word! ###
If you have the time, please help us spread the word by boosting this post and forwarding it anyone you think might be interested. It can also be very effective to forward it to organisations and professionals who work with autistic people, so they can show it to their clients (and attend themselves if they wish, of course: Autscape is autistic space, but everyone is welcome).
We hope to see many of you there!
On behalf of the Online Autscape organising team and the Autscape board,
Martijn Dekker
Acting chair, The Autscape Organisation#Autscape #ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #autism #AutisticSpace #AutisticJoy #autistic #conference
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Dear Autscape attendees and allies,
We at Autscape are very happy to announce that registration for #OnlineAutscape2026 “Evolving Autistic Space Online” is now open!
The event will run from 6th to 8th February. We will be using Zoom webinars for the presentations and a dedicated Discord server for our social space.
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/
### Tickets ###
To book your ticket, please visit:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/registration
### Programme ###
We're very proud of our incredible line-up of presenters! Please have a look:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/presenters
We are particularly grateful to stand-up poet, spoken word artist, broadcaster and neurodivergent advocate Kate Fox (known from BBC Radio 4 and the Glastonbury Festival, among others), who graciously volunteered time in her busy schedule to give a creative writing workshop entitled “Radical self-acceptance through creative writing and reading”.
The main programme schedule is now ready as well:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/schedule
Not listed there are informal discussions and activities; these may be announced later, or even organised on the spot at the event.
### Spread the word! ###
If you have the time, please help us spread the word by boosting this post and forwarding it anyone you think might be interested. It can also be very effective to forward it to organisations and professionals who work with autistic people, so they can show it to their clients (and attend themselves if they wish, of course: Autscape is autistic space, but everyone is welcome).
We hope to see many of you there!
On behalf of the Online Autscape organising team and the Autscape board,
Martijn Dekker
Acting chair, The Autscape Organisation#Autscape #ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #autism #AutisticSpace #AutisticJoy #autistic #conference
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Dear Autscape attendees and allies,
We at Autscape are very happy to announce that registration for #OnlineAutscape2026 “Evolving Autistic Space Online” is now open!
The event will run from 6th to 8th February. We will be using Zoom webinars for the presentations and a dedicated Discord server for our social space.
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/
### Tickets ###
To book your ticket, please visit:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/registration
### Programme ###
We're very proud of our incredible line-up of presenters! Please have a look:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/presenters
We are particularly grateful to stand-up poet, spoken word artist, broadcaster and neurodivergent advocate Kate Fox (known from BBC Radio 4 and the Glastonbury Festival, among others), who graciously volunteered time in her busy schedule to give a creative writing workshop entitled “Radical self-acceptance through creative writing and reading”.
The main programme schedule is now ready as well:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/schedule
Not listed there are informal discussions and activities; these may be announced later, or even organised on the spot at the event.
### Spread the word! ###
If you have the time, please help us spread the word by boosting this post and forwarding it anyone you think might be interested. It can also be very effective to forward it to organisations and professionals who work with autistic people, so they can show it to their clients (and attend themselves if they wish, of course: Autscape is autistic space, but everyone is welcome).
We hope to see many of you there!
On behalf of the Online Autscape organising team and the Autscape board,
Martijn Dekker
Acting chair, The Autscape Organisation#Autscape #ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #autism #AutisticSpace #AutisticJoy #autistic #conference
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Dear Autscape attendees and allies,
We at Autscape are very happy to announce that registration for #OnlineAutscape2026 “Evolving Autistic Space Online” is now open!
The event will run from 6th to 8th February. We will be using Zoom webinars for the presentations and a dedicated Discord server for our social space.
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/
### Tickets ###
To book your ticket, please visit:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/registration
### Programme ###
We're very proud of our incredible line-up of presenters! Please have a look:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/presenters
We are particularly grateful to stand-up poet, spoken word artist, broadcaster and neurodivergent advocate Kate Fox (known from BBC Radio 4 and the Glastonbury Festival, among others), who graciously volunteered time in her busy schedule to give a creative writing workshop entitled “Radical self-acceptance through creative writing and reading”.
The main programme schedule is now ready as well:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/schedule
Not listed there are informal discussions and activities; these may be announced later, or even organised on the spot at the event.
### Spread the word! ###
If you have the time, please help us spread the word by boosting this post and forwarding it anyone you think might be interested. It can also be very effective to forward it to organisations and professionals who work with autistic people, so they can show it to their clients (and attend themselves if they wish, of course: Autscape is autistic space, but everyone is welcome).
We hope to see many of you there!
On behalf of the Online Autscape organising team and the Autscape board,
Martijn Dekker
Acting chair, The Autscape Organisation#Autscape #ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #autism #AutisticSpace #AutisticJoy #autistic #conference
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Dear Autscape attendees and allies,
We at Autscape are very happy to announce that registration for #OnlineAutscape2026 “Evolving Autistic Space Online” is now open!
The event will run from 6th to 8th February. We will be using Zoom webinars for the presentations and a dedicated Discord server for our social space.
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/
### Tickets ###
To book your ticket, please visit:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/registration
### Programme ###
We're very proud of our incredible line-up of presenters! Please have a look:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/presenters
We are particularly grateful to stand-up poet, spoken word artist, broadcaster and neurodivergent advocate Kate Fox (known from BBC Radio 4 and the Glastonbury Festival, among others), who graciously volunteered time in her busy schedule to give a creative writing workshop entitled “Radical self-acceptance through creative writing and reading”.
The main programme schedule is now ready as well:
https://www.autscape.org/2026/online/schedule
Not listed there are informal discussions and activities; these may be announced later, or even organised on the spot at the event.
### Spread the word! ###
If you have the time, please help us spread the word by boosting this post and forwarding it anyone you think might be interested. It can also be very effective to forward it to organisations and professionals who work with autistic people, so they can show it to their clients (and attend themselves if they wish, of course: Autscape is autistic space, but everyone is welcome).
We hope to see many of you there!
On behalf of the Online Autscape organising team and the Autscape board,
Martijn Dekker
Acting chair, The Autscape Organisation#Autscape #ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #neurodivergence #autism #AutisticSpace #AutisticJoy #autistic #conference
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Three Good Things:
1) learned now to fix a mistake in my knitting
2) starting on season 3 rewatching Eureka
3) fresh oranges -
Some neurotypical person may have to explain to me why the socially acceptable thing to do when someone calls you pretentious is to checks notes say thank you and lick their boot.
I'm autistic, so as we all know, I struggle to understand "common sense" things like that and am eager to learn so that I can be included in this delusionally toxic society of ours.
Some of that was likely sarcasm.
Things to keep in mind:
- If you're a woman, and someone calls you manipulative, they're afraid of the only power they've allowed you to keep.
- If you're an autist, and someone calls you pretentious, they are forcing you to do emotional labor to protect them, your attacker, from their own insecurity.
Never accept as feedback what is intended as abuse.
#SocialEngineering #BoundarySetting #EmotionalLabor #Sociology #Ontology #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #AutisticJoy #DoubleEmpathyProblem #Masking #IntersectionalFeminism #PowerDynamics #Assertiveness #InternalizedMisogyny
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Some neurotypical person may have to explain to me why the socially acceptable thing to do when someone calls you pretentious is to checks notes say thank you and lick their boot.
I'm autistic, so as we all know, I struggle to understand "common sense" things like that and am eager to learn so that I can be included in this delusionally toxic society of ours.
Some of that was likely sarcasm.
Things to keep in mind:
- If you're a woman, and someone calls you manipulative, they're afraid of the only power they've allowed you to keep.
- If you're an autist, and someone calls you pretentious, they are forcing you to do emotional labor to protect them, your attacker, from their own insecurity.
Never accept as feedback what is intended as abuse.
#SocialEngineering #BoundarySetting #EmotionalLabor #Sociology #Ontology #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #AutisticJoy #DoubleEmpathyProblem #Masking #IntersectionalFeminism #PowerDynamics #Assertiveness #InternalizedMisogyny
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Some neurotypical person may have to explain to me why the socially acceptable thing to do when someone calls you pretentious is to checks notes say thank you and lick their boot.
I'm autistic, so as we all know, I struggle to understand "common sense" things like that and am eager to learn so that I can be included in this delusionally toxic society of ours.
Some of that was likely sarcasm.
Things to keep in mind:
- If you're a woman, and someone calls you manipulative, they're afraid of the only power they've allowed you to keep.
- If you're an autist, and someone calls you pretentious, they are forcing you to do emotional labor to protect them, your attacker, from their own insecurity.
Never accept as feedback what is intended as abuse.
#SocialEngineering #BoundarySetting #EmotionalLabor #Sociology #Ontology #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #AutisticJoy #DoubleEmpathyProblem #Masking #IntersectionalFeminism #PowerDynamics #Assertiveness #InternalizedMisogyny