u/_Caitlin-2

So many men on Hinge have been saying they go crazy for “slightly autistic women”, and I am just so tired of being misrepresented, infantilised and sexualised for a neurological disability which has affected my entire life.

First of all, the “slightly” part I think is offensive as. I am high functioning, but to fetishise a disability but only to a certain degree is insane. These men want a child in the body of a woman, but as soon as they start stimming and having meltdowns it’s “too autistic”.

And can we unpack WHY they want a “slightly autistic woman” too? Is it because we are stereotypically easy to manipulate? Because we are misrepresented as acting like children, and that notion is somehow attractive to them? Or is it because all of a sudden it’s now hot and trendy to rant about a hyper fixation for half an hour? Which one is it, boys?

I’m so tired of the dating apps when so so many men are suddenly into the same disability they bullied me for when I was a kid.

So many men on Hinge have been saying they go crazy for “slightly autistic women”, and I am just so tired of being misrepresented, infantilised and sexualised for a neurological disability which has affected my entire life.

First of all, the “slightly” part I think is offensive as. I am high functioning, but to fetishise a disability but only to a certain degree is insane. These men want a child in the body of a woman, but as soon as they start stimming and having meltdowns it’s “too autistic”.

And can we unpack WHY they want a “slightly autistic woman” too? Is it because we are stereotypically easy to manipulate? Because we are misrepresented as acting like children, and that notion is somehow attractive to them? Or is it because all of a sudden it’s now hot and trendy to rant about a hyper fixation for half an hour? Which one is it, boys?

I’m so tired of the dating apps when so many men are suddenly into the very thing that kept them away from me for my life, because now they can see the childlike tendencies autistic women can have.