The Autistic Experience Of Being Touched By Faculty At Schools Is So Horrifying To Me Because WHY Have

The autistic experience of being touched by faculty at schools is so horrifying to me because WHY have we normalized being rough with ANY students whatsoever?

I hope my brother and I are alone in this, but the amount of times I had a teacher who would grab my face and force me to "look them in the eye" when they were speaking is abominable.

The amount of times I was having a meltdown and begging not to be touched, hiding under desks and crying, just to have a teacher or noon-aid rip me away from where I was seated by my fragile elementary schooler arms to drag me to the principals office.

The way I lost privileges like school field trips and recess (the ladder of which was desperately needed time to regulate myself). I lost them for having meltdowns and nobody could see how much I was struggling even at six years old.

This doesn't even account for the things that happened at home.

And everybody wonders why so many of us are such timid adults, who are afraid to stick up for ourselves or show emotions. Who are afraid to unmask to any degree and burn ourselves out in attempts to be palatable.

I love you, autistic adults. I love you, autistic kids. You deserve and deserved better.

Can we stop using "still lives with their parents" or "unemployed" or "doesn't have a drivers license" or "didn't graduate high school" as an insult or evidence that someone is a bad person? Struggling with independence or meeting milestones is not a moral failing.

noooo trans person don’t mistake your dysphoria-based apathy towards transition and your assumption that it can’t make you more happy with yourself as radical acceptance of your body that proves you don’t need (or more internally, deserve) hormones and gender affirming clothes, nothing will really happen but god you could be so much more fulfilled and could stop whenever you want if you don’t like it… crossdress in your room TODAY

I would like to see more people talk about how jobs treat disabled employees.

I used to prep, wash dishes, and cook at mellow mushroom. I had chronic pain that wasn't NEARLY as bad as it is today, but it was still very debilitating. I told my employer "i cannot stand more than 4 to 6 hours. I CANNOT do shifts longer than this due to my illness." And even though i made my boundaries VERY clear, everyday i worked it was 8 hours at the least and 10 or 12 at the most. I would go up to my manager and say "look i really need to leave, my shift is over, my chronic pain is killing me." And he'd say "we really need to here, you HAVE to push through." And so i did, and after one, ONE month of that job my crps got incredibly worse to the point where i could no longer walk my dog around the block which was .5 miles. I quit, and that was FOUR years ago, and ever since that day I HAVE BEEN BEDRIDDEN AND HAVE TO USE A WHEELCHAIR. It is my biggest regret in life.

My best friend who has seen my whole journey has recently developed undiagnosed chronic pain, and she is in the EXACT same scenario i was 4 years ago. Busting her ass at a pizza place with extreme pain that hurts her so much she tells me "im in so much pain i don't even feel like a person." She doesn't feel LUCID. And her manager and coworkers are saying the same thing "if you don't help us you will let us down, we'll be in the shit."

That job thats hurting you isn't fucking worth it. I promise you no money is worth losing all your physical abilities and never getting them back. Your coworkers and boss do not give a shit about you, so don't you dare suffer for them. They will never understand your struggle and they will never try. They truly think being understaffed is worse than whatever pain you experience. They would rather you permanently damage yourself than inconvenience them. FUCK THEM. DON'T FUCKING DO IT!

scrolling the fandom tags when all of a sudden... I hear this AGITATING GRATING VOICE.

(it's AI)

JUST MAKE ART! WHO CARES IF ITS "BAD"!!!! most people ('round here at least) would rather see stick figure fanart than soulless AI!!!

My sister in law is trans and we’ve had many talks about her identity and how it makes her feel and her goals for transition.

It broke my heart when she told me the amounts of plastic surgery and facial reconstruction she wants to get when she’s older :/

I told her it’s always going to be her choice but that I personally could never tell she was trans until her family told me and that she really didn’t need that much invasive surgery to “look more like a woman” since she was already very cis looking to the point where nobody at her school even knows she’s trans…

Keep in mind she’s been out since age 5, never went through male puberty, and is starting estrogen now that she’s of age…

I can’t help but feel like she may be seeing a lot of the toxic med-centric trans community online & that it may be fueling insecurity and fear within her about her own identity :(

I wish I could show her more of the non-med centric trans world but unfortunately we aren't as close as we used to be and she's … kinda basic 😭

I've noticed the alternative styled community has a lot more trans folk all over the expression spectrum whereas trans and cis people that follow more trendy styles have a lot of pressure to look and act one specific way

anyways thats just my rant but reminder you dont need ANY medical stuff to be trans ESPECIALLY if it could cause serious harm to your body if something goes wrong :(