Can NT stop with the autism jokes?!
I am so sick of hearing NT people use “autistic” as the butt of a joke. I HATE that it’s almost daily instance where I see reels of people use autism as a synonym of being quirky and joking about it. Especially when you cannot filter that content out, because it’s a seemingly normal video and then they hit you in the face with it. Or it’s the stupid posts about girl with autism vs boy with autism, where the girls are portrayed as childish and fragile and boys as the cool, nonchalant guys. And what’s worse, people who I know give likes to these videos and posts.
I am writing this because I’ve seen a video, that totally ruined my day. It was a video of a girl that was crying and explaining how driving can be hard for autistic people and some guy stitched his answer to it, with saying something along the lines of it’s a skill issue.
I cannot drive, and I am dependent on other people taking me places. I would love to be able to drive and have my own car. But I FUCKING can’t. And what’s worse, my best friend liked that video…
Why do NT do this? What is so funny about making fun of autistic people or using the word autistic to describe their own “quirkiness”. Like “omg look at me I am so different lol”.
These people know NOTHING about how it feels to live in this world as an autistic person.
Okay rant over…..