offensive comments from family members
hoping this is the right flair, i had a kind of shitty experience i don’t really have people to talk with who’d get why im upset. i went to a mother’s day picnic with my family over the weekend and am still upset about some stuff my aunt said even though i know better than to take it personally because she sucks. we were talking about taking a trip to universal and she said to get shorter wait times in lines she thinks we should “pretend someone has autism” and have them “drool on themselves and flap their hands.” i told her i have autism and she laughed and kept going on with that bs, when my mom affirmed what i said my aunt immediately was dismissive and condescending, saying stuff like “no you don’t, what is it asperger’s or something?” i was genuinely shocked and disgusted as she is an elementary teacher who’s worked with autistic students and has a nephew who is autistic with very high support needs. not to mention, immediately before this she and my stepdad spent several minutes leading the room in jokes at the expense of gay and trans people (both of them are two out of three people in that leg of the family that know i’m a lesbian and they are very aware of my advocacy for the trans community). my feelings aren’t even really personally hurt because i know they’re immature and stupid bullies stuck in high school but i just have been sitting around so angry that she would speak that way about people she should be an advocate for, especially in front of my 12 year old cousin who i suspect is neurodivergent too. i just needed to get this off my chest somehow