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i’m so tired of how normalised ableism is in society .....................
it’s the grown adults saying stan culture is “weird” and “creepy” when the majority of it is neurodivergent teens making friends based on their hyperfixations, it’s teachers telling me off in school for doodling even though i did it to help me concentrate, it’s the way 1/???
teachers would pick on me when they KNEW i was zoned out just to make me feel stupid - like i could control my attention span, it’s the way people say they’d rather be dead than paralysed, it’s the way i was constantly shamed for talking passionately abt the stuff i’m (2/????
interested in, the way i was made to feel like a FREAK for years of my life because of the stims i couldn’t help, the way i had to change whole parts of who i am just to fit in in this goddamn neurotypical world, it’s the way people are constantly shamed for being different, 3/??
it’s the way i’ll have this whole rant and STILL nothing will change because nobody actually gives a fuck about neurodivergent people and the older i get the more apparent that becomes. 4/???
please i am begging yall to have just an ounce of empathy ESPECIALLY when dealing with CHILDREN because if you are neurotypical you have absolutely no idea how damaging it is growing up in a world that hates you. renormalise your ableism and treat us like people. (5/5)
