Isn’t it fucking terrible and indicative of a larger problem when we cannot remember the exact circumstances of publicly recognized rapist over another?

It feels wrong. That’s the easiest way to explain it. It’s not quite like wearing something that feels uncomfortable, but it’s a similar feeling. I feel a compulsion to drop to all fours and climb up stairs that way even though most people just use two legs. I’m more grounded and it feels far more efficient.

So many ideas! A non-profit that pairs gaming with teaching life skills? An outreach program that visits schools and teaches concepts through gaming? An after school program where neurodivergent students can hang out with like minded and supportive individuals while playing various games? The possibilities!

I’m assuming that this is referencing the unwillingness to prosecute young men for sexual assault, and liking it on that basis!

Always a pleasure! Feel free to reach out if you ever want to gab about our shared weirdness.

I’m glad to hear that!

I’m queer as well as autistic. My sexuality is pretty easy to explain (I appear to be sexually attracted to all genders so far!), but I’ve always had difficulties with my gender. It doesn’t feel right when I think of myself as a (cis) woman, but it’s not an issue enough where I’ve actually given it extension thought.

Discovering and identifying Asperger’s saved my life. For once in my life I no longer felt like I was practically alien, that I just couldn’t function as a person, or that I didn’t belong.

I had fortunately managed to avoid seeing that before now. I assume that they’re referring to meltdown with the “autistic screeching,” right? That’ fucking terrible.

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I don’t think its so much that he hates who he is, but he hates that who he is results in him being rejected and hated.

Should I be insulted, and should I correct people for the sake of people who do have autism when this diagnosis is applied to my behaviour?

I work in an industry that is conducive to my diagnosis, and so many of my colleagues share my interests.

This is absolutely my experience as someone who is active in autistic/developmentally disabled communities and has interacted with hundreds of autistics. Women are generally expected to behave a certain way that is contrary to many autistics — we have the tendency to be loud (difficulties with modulating the volume of…

Low-functioning is the type that’s sensory overload, and the person has trouble functioning in society. High-functioning is like having superpowers in a sense. Your senses are turned up a few notches, but the dial isn’t broken.

In the end, there are a LOT of people out there that simply lack empathy.

Having only found out about my diagnosis recently I find stuff like this fascinating. Kind of a running question of how much of my actions are me and how much is Asperger?

I’d also include any positive interaction with Jacob as female Shepard. Anything that I perceived as being friendly ended up as flirting. That frustrated the hell out of me.

Autism is considered a spectrum because there are so many behaviors that are linked with the diagnosis. No one person has the same characteristics as another, and many of them are common of allistics as well.

But what if my son grows up to play games and sees this kind of insult? Will he be bothered by it? He doesn’t know he’s autistic.