cfleischmann wrote:
Dan82 wrote:
cfleischmann wrote:
Hi:
For the love of all things pretty, pink, and nonverbal. Who would target such a wonderful person? I don’t understand.
Do you really not understand or are you being rhetorical? I mean, I have my theories if they'd be welcome...
You’re right! She doesn’t spired me to do things a certain way, such as not be afraid to be myself. To speak my mind. To communicate and interact with the world. And so much more. And I’m sure I’m not the only one. Further, if it weren’t for her and several others, I would not have the courage to even ask knowledge my preferences for being permanently nonverbal.
Feel free to bring in your theories but to answer your questions I Don understand the
why of targeting someone like her. She’s an inspiration to many including myself.
It's power dynamics. If she's inspiring you, she's presumably inspiring you to do something a certain way, and that doesn't necessarily appeal to everyone.
If it's a specifically autistic/neurotypical divide, I think neurotypicals feel very similar feelings toward odd/opposing behaviors that autistics feel toward sensory issues, etc.
A couple years back, I think it was the actor Shia LaBeouf and some other people set up an art exhibit about "He Will Not Divide Us," where they live streamed people saying "He will not divide us," meaning Trump. All sorts of pro-Trump people showed up to disrupt it, presumably because they wanted to live in a pro-Trump world. Same thing, I think.