Autistic people have empathy. In fact a lot of us have rather too much empathy and can be heavily affected by the mood around us.

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Autistic people can have and maintain friendships, though friendships with neurotypical people may be harder to maintain due to different expectations.

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Autistic people can have relationships, have sex, have children. Autistic children grow into autistic adults who do adult stuff.

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Autistic people can be nice or nasty. Kind or unkind. Knowledgeable or ignorant, and everything in between. We're not a monolith, though we can have much in common.

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Autistic people are everywhere. There are a lot of us - way more than anyone really knows. We're not a particularly 'rare' neurotype but we are very poorly represented in positions of power and influence.

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Autistic people see the world differently, absorb information in a different way, experience the input of their senses seemingly in a different, more intense way too. It's really interesting. We're really interesting!

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Autistic people often, typically, seem to find it easier to socialise with other autistic people. Often to an enormous degree.

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Autistic people are often misunderstood, poorly treated, bullied, ignored, mocked, even killed.

We don't deserve that.

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Autistic people often have a deep connection with the natural world, finding peace and security in aspects of the world that move to a different rhythm.

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Autistic people can have interests they desperately love and want to share, but often can't for fear of seeming odd.

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