#whotalks — Public Fediverse posts
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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.
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We're so withdrawn primarily because hell is neurotypicals. The hashtag for those quotes:
Discussion includes *already* having *learned* to self-isolate, not by choice but for their own survival. Both due to and at a further cost of significant trauma.
Autistic or not, trauma will leave you with fewer illusions, better able to see things for what they are. Half-assed lockdowns during a deadly pandemic included.
(It's okay, we're headed back home now.)
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Autistic masking is a trauma response to stigma, invalidation, and marginalisation. It requires us to project acceptability, an effort which takes up an enormous amount of energy to sustain itself, leading to high rates of self-harm, a high suicide rate, and an early average range of death.
But somehow pointing this out means we're living in fear and need help for anxiety.
— @ebk, h/t Kieran Rose
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"Covid is a vascular, neurotrophic illness that can wreak havoc on the immune system & lead to longterm disability, but somehow pointing this out means you're living in fear and need help for anxiety"
— @Chantzy