I’ve never really been a “social model of disability” kind of person but boy howdy am I becoming one
I could get along just fine without all the neurotypicals constantly going “just remember: you’ll never actually be normal!”
@faeline said: Honestly, I’d be a lot more okay with that model if it allowed for my actual problems functioning. People are shitty but that doesn’t explain why sometimes I don’t eat until 3PM.
Agreed. It’s not society’s fault that my brain sometimes short-circuits. I dislike the idea that you can just handwave away the actual symptoms. But my internal symptoms don’t have to inhibit my getting along in the world as much as they currently do. When a not-autistic person and I have a problem communicating, I wish the fault weren’t automatically assumed to be mine. I wish they were encouraged to speak my language a little bit, given that I spend 99% of the time trying to speak theirs.
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