Brictoria wrote:
We're all (or have been) "outcasts" (for want of a better word) to some degree from society, yet instead of trying to be welcoming\accepting to others in our "community" despite their "differences", we still have our own group of "outcasts" who are shunned or whose beliefs are repeatedly attacked, with no attempt at understanding made, which I feel is doing a dis-service both to those people as well as to the ASD community as a whole through the perception anyone looking at (or hearing about) the site would gather regarding us. Surely we are (or can be) better than that.
I went to autistic communities thinking I wouldn't find the ostracising groupthink mindset that I have experienced for most of my life.
While this isn't the case in all instances, I was surprised and disappointed to find out that my naive belief, that those on the spectrum embraced ultra-individuality, was incorrect, regarding some.
16 Feb 2021, 2:01 am
