re: #228 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I can’t speak for others on the spectrum or with family but I was legitimately angered by RFK Jr likening life with autism to being in a concentration camp. I’ll be the first to say it. Life with HFA can bluntly speaking be a bitch but my experiences are near someone who is placed in a camp because of who they are.

Speaking as someone whom Trump, though maybe not Miller since we don’t know his views on moderate-to-low function or trans, prolly already is drawing up an itinerary for?

I fully have to agree. I still have access to my computer to communicate with people that I can do that with without being almost assured that being around them for more than a couple hours will likely make them and me both sicker than we went into the day. I don’t have to lose my mind because of a lack of near-constantly piping music to my ears, either (incidentally, that whole “make public spaces autism-friendly” initiative? There are also autism-spectrum folks for whom not enough sensory input is what’s painful and y’all are making us wear headphones everywhere except in the car, where we have the car stereo to rely on instead. You better not look at us as disrespectful to you for not always hearing the second you speak up now!)

I don’t know how long I’ll last in a camp even if they provide medications that I expect them to actively refuse to provide, because suicide may be more desirable at that point with my parents likely already having to clean up the mess in my room without my help.

I can prolly last another half-century unemployed, with autism, as long as no one nukes my parents’ stock-market fortune.