Post #1357336
2026-04-11 06:56 UTC
@KatyElphinstone I've been saying for years now that if the numbers were reversed and autistic people were the majority, a lot of the things we think of as autistic traits would be way less common than you'd think. A lot of of these traits (not even the allistic laundry list of things that make us different) are responses to living in a world that isn't made for us.
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@KatyElphinstone@mas.to 2026-04-11 07:55
@elmiller0330 Exactly this.
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@stekopf@mstdn.social 2026-04-11 08:25
@elmiller0330 @KatyElphinstone I believe that many of the special talents attributed to autistic people are the result of their desperate attempts to fit in. I use the analogy of a pearl that has grown inside a shell. Most people (non-shells :) may find pearls beautiful and fascinating (whilst having little interest in the shell itself). But the pearl is usually the result of an injury, causing the tissue that forms mother-of-pearl to proliferate in the wrong place. #Autism #Neurodivergence