• Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    People when autistic boys have mental shutdowns: haha it’s so quirky when he hyperfixates.

    People when autistic girls have mental shutdowns: what a bitchy and emotional teenager. She’s not even autistic she just does it for attention.

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      11 hours ago

      “Mmmmm, yes, let’s turn a funny post about autistic hyperfixations into gender warfare. This will be a good use of everyone’s time.”

      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 hours ago

        Dude this is about tye gendered double standard in mental illness.

        It is a thing, and for autistic women it hurts that we don’t have funny stories about our trauma like this and it sucks.

        The reaction to autistic men (here) is perfectly reasonable. We want that. Fuck off with your misogynist bullshit.

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      15 hours ago

      Really? Because I just got whipped with a switch or a belt when I had my little boy autistic meltdowns.

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        5 hours ago

        Yeah, while there is definitely often sexism involved in how autistic girls and women vs autistic boys and men are treated, it’s not like any flavor of autism or anyone’s autistic meltdown is treated well…