Good on you for taking it seriously!

Why not just say “this person’s pronouns are” and use what they say to you? Why does preference even have to play in

Wow, haha. This feels like listening to myself! It takes so much out of you and when you don’t do it, they get terrified of your other-ness and mistreat you. I don’t know if there’s a way to win.

I really try to be forgiving when I know a person isnt going to take advantage of my compassion

Yeah, there’s no point. I wish I could do something about it but I don’t even know where to start. I’m just trying to move on and fall back into a routine in my life. It’s hard when I’m broke and all, but I’m trying.

I don’t blame her. She doesn’t know my dad, and she was pretty scared. The only thing I would say is to call EMS instead of the cops.

Yea it’s totally fucked. I don’t have much else to say because I haven’t experienced it.

Mm. I’m cis tbh, and it just frustrates me. If I changed my name, what are the chances that my birth name would be used in a news report if I was murdered? Pretty damn slim. It disgusts me that trans people get no respect whatsoever.

Yeah. There’s a reason I no longer speak to my mother!

I am so glad that as a parent of a non-verbal autistic child you still value your daughter’s intelligence and humanity. Thank you. It gives me hope, honestly. I see so many parents out there who thinks their child is damaged goods for the same reason, and it scares me. A lot of these kids develop some methods of…

Did he actually attack? A lot of people, autistic or not, will threaten people when they are afraid. Im not condoning the behaviour (I did it once and scared the crap out of some people but I learned to never do it again but not everyone learns that lesson in time). Iirc the article didn’t indicate anything besides a…

I’m so sorry that happened to you. Jesus Christ. On one hand I am tempted to keep a card in my purse that says I am autistic in case of some medical situation or something like this, but part of me says that they wouldn’t care even if they saw it, and part of me feels like I shouldn’t need it.

That’s a start. However, if the wrong sort of professional is sent out, it could be more damaging. The biggest autism charity in the world is looking for a cure when so many of us find it unnecessary. Anyone trained in ABA would terrify me more on an already terrifying situation.

Yeah, there does. And I’m terrified because it could have gone this way for me (I’m not in the US but the officers had guns with them afaik, and a mentally ill guy got shot by a cop on a streetcar in the closest big city to me) if I had been scared enough and out of my head at the time and brandished an ineffectual…

It really isn’t. I didn’t get shot, but cops really don’t know how to deal with autistic ppl, especially when they’re having a meltdown. They’re most likely not going to hurt anyone, knife or no knife. They’re scared and overwhelmed. This guy could have survived. There needs to be a better understanding of autistic…

It makes me so sad to see people like me, who have these bright shiny futures and interesting neurodivergent brains, just get shut down in one way or another before we have time to shine.

Yeah, and why use the dead name? Why not just mention that the death was filed under his birth name without mentioning the name?

You shoot to kill. Always. You do not shoot to maim. If you want to maim, you do not use a gun.

Was this a wellness check gone wrong? The police don’t know how to deal with autistic people especially not suicidal or mentally ill ones, especially not if they’re having a meltdown (even if they’re already calm, the police will usually make them anxious again). I know this first-hand. I had an anxiety attack and…

As a fellow autistic person, I think it’s better to get society to accept us as we are. I don’t feel diseased. I feel a little weird as a person, a bit socially out there and way too invested in special interests, but as it isn’t a disease, any cure brings up a lot of ethical issues. Similarly to the deaf community,…