Post #3797238

2026-07-14 01:06 UTC

@autistics@fedigroups.social As so many of us struggle with what the angry weather Gods are throwing at us. With the greed of a few threatening us all, with their empty dreams and blind visions of the future. And most of all with the greed and power-hunger of our so-called leaders and the spineless betrayal of those who should be holding them in check. It is perhaps worth remembering something. Being born autistic, or adhd or both, means that this life has always been against us. We walk through it with incredible gifts. Such as sensory perception capable of seeing truly profound beauty, pattern recognition that lets us see the writing on the wall, long before others can even see the wall, the ability to concentrate and produce over extraordinary periods of time and character traits of truth and honour and honesty, logic and loyalty and steadfast courage. And so much more. All gifts, I would argue, in the right circumstances, when they are not being abused by the systems we have to try and survive in, or the world created for others. Because then they can be turned into our curse and from them can be spawned other darknesses that we end up wearing like cloaks as we crawl though live, attempting merely to survive, anxiety, stress, depression, illness and despair. This is the story of so many of our lives. Of our gifts also being our curses, of all that we have to carry that so few want to see or recognise. And do you know what that has made us? Stronger than we know. Give the average allistic even an hour walking in our shoes and they would give up, or break. Yet we endure, we have always endured. It is part of what makes us, us. #Autism #ActuallyAutistic

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@KaCi@autistics.life 2026-07-14 08:20

@pathfinder@beige.party Thank you so much for this post. It is so important that we acknowledge and are proud of the fact, that we as autistic, as AuDHD, as disabled people are constantly living life in the hard mode in a world that hasn't been made for us. This is what disability pride is about. It made us stronger. The ones of us who survived until now, but many did not. We always have to keep that in mind. That we made it up to here, every day we survive in this ableist system is something we can be proud of. But while trauma makes us develop skills and the challenges we face contribute to our personal growth, it also kills many of us, disables us even more. It should not be like that. What really makes people strong is community, validation and an environment that supports our individual strengths and accommodates our needs. By now the autistic community has enough knowledge to provide these things for the older ones and the younger generations, although there is still so much to discover about our neurodivergence. But as you said, the people in power, the people who could make these changes don't care about that and make life worse for everyone instead. And we have the right to be angry about that. Because that is part of disability pride too. To direct the anger against whom it belongs. Not against ourselves, but against this ableist system and the people who uphold it. #ActuallyAutistic #disabled #DisabilityPride @autistics@fedigroups.social

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@joshsusser@autistics.life 2026-07-14 01:21

@pathfinder@beige.party It's probably impossible to do ethically, but I'd like to see an experiment where they put an allistic person in a well-adjusted autistic household for a month and see how long they last before having a huge meltdown. If not an actual experiment, maybe a reality TV show?

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