kerinnossbi-deactivated20210621:
NOTHING makes me more mad than people shoving aside creepy behavior just because the person in question is neurodivergent and doesn’t pick up on social skills well. there was this girl in high school who got way too touchy with me no matter how many times I told her to stop and the fucking school guidance counselor and school psychologist were like “well you can’t blame her because she can’t pick up on social cues well”. i’m neurodivergent too but if someone begs me to stop doing something it’s kind of fucking clear they don’t like it???
just the way people approach neurodivergency is so infantilizing I hate it. if you ever reblog a post about how it’s ableist to react angrily to someone invading your space i’ll fucking kill you. half the things you guys call ableism are just straight up not, and this isn’t even a tumblr thing, it’s something supposed medical professionals believe.
It’s no longer a social cue if someone says “stop, i don’t like that” it’s literally just someone verbalizing what they expect you to do. which is stop.
^^exactly
i’ve been reading the notes on this post and noticing a pattern that should be addressed.
while my experience is with a woman (and I wouldn’t say it’s sexual harassment), there’s a HUGE issue of neurodivergent men getting away with sexual harassment. this doesn’t surprise me at all because it essentially combines the “boys will be boys” mindset with the “neurodivergent people are never to blame for their actions” mindset.
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