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as an autistic nonbinary creature i appreciate it nora

same hat!!!!

My aunt* sat me down and told me my cousin's little boy is autistic, in the same tones as she'd use for saying he had some kind of terrible life-limiting disease. Now, I am not autistic (afaik), but my jaunty, "Oh, that's cool! My BFF's autistic too!" response has never seen a more flabbered gast.

*My aunt is almost certainly the person he inherited his autism from, but she is IN NO WAY ready for that conversation

Even before I came out as trans, I’d been talking to my mom about how you see more autistic people because of diagnostic changes, and how if I’d grown up today I’d probably be considered to have some form of it.

She vehemently rejected the idea and even implied my difficulties were something I taught myself in adulthood, how I was always a sweet and engaged little boy. I have no feeling about whether or not I match any criteria, but me turning out to have it would be a failure for HER. Even in adulthood.

you can't stop people from being trans and/or autistic but also anyone selling people that you can for the price of mandatory child genital inspections and/or a bunch of kids dying of measles is just a pedophile and/or a nurgle worshipper, respectively