#traumapants — Public Fediverse posts

Here's the thing. I'm well-enough steeped in details of differences, strengths and weaknesses, between autistic and non-autistic cognitive styles that I could talk about them.

I just don't see, given this account's focus, how that discussion has much place here. And I believe the #Spring2020AutisticLockdown posts prove that point.

True, autistics may draw fear, anger, and resentment where we outperform neurotypicals. That's primarily their problem.

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The thread though (#Spring2020AutisticLockdown) wasn't about autism or autistics at all.

It was about the trauma of isolation. How a pre-isolated group A views a group B undergoing a limited version of their own isolation. Wherein group B remains the enforcer of group A's permanent isolation.

Seems worth saying, there was a lot of engagement on that hashtag. Heavy emphasis on favorites rather than boosts or replies.

So I saw yall have been along for the ride, albeit quietly.

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Did anyone notice, over nearly 3 weeks of #Spring2020AutisticLockdown, that no one was "using their autism" to so easily survive the whole ordeal?

What they did say was, "Been here, been doing this already. And yes, it's traumatizing. So we do 'get' what the neurotypicals are going through."

And then opinions were divided as to whether the neurotypicals deserve empathy, or doth protest too much.

Given, you know, the givens.

Of everyone shunning autistics, as standard procedure.

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Beginning to round out the autism threads now, bringing them back home as to why this all belongs on Global Dark Theme.

Autism themed hashtags that've brought matters along to this point :

#Spring2020AutisticLockdown (~18)
#LatN (5)
#GDTautismIntro (8)
#WhoTalks (13)
#LivingInFear (2)
#DPSO! (7)
#traumapants (next)
#pantrauma (later)

Spoiler: none of this, it turns out, has anything to do with autism.

It has everything to do with trauma.

An experience not at all limited to autistics.