“don’t blame everything on your autism”
how the fuck do i navigate this statement? you think i want to be autistic or something when im literally clinically diagnosed? its really frustrating getting through statements where theres no understanding, when i have my meltdowns why is it that im being “dramatic” ? or “over emotional” ? why is it always labeling and not just trying to talk to the person? especially if you love them? i understand that im an adult and socially you’re supposed to know what youre doing, but as an autistic i LITERALLY don’t! LITERALLY and it’s so hard and it’s so easy for people to just see me and say get over it since i have some accomplishments in my life, or my mask is there, but those WERE NOT EASY TO GET and i can only mask for so long as a recently diagnosed person there’s so much for me to still unpack. and don’t get me started on this trend of having “a bit of tism’” and it being cute but it’s not cute when the “dramatic” or “sensitive” or “over emotional” or “taking shit seriously” or “you don’t take jokes” part of autism shows up, when it’s literally, literally JUST ME BEING AUTISTIC! and that’s just 25% of it, i just feel so misunderstood all the time by the people around me that i honestly just don’t know if anybody would truly understand me.