The reason autistic people identify as LGBTQI more than allistic people is a mystery still but the theory that we "just don't give a shit" is strongly endorsed in the comments.
#Autism #autistic #neurodiverse #lgbtqi #ActuallyAutistic
@ideogram anecdotally, I and some other autistic folks I know all have some struggle with understanding gender as a concept. It may contribute, I guess? It seems to be that part of social norms, and autistic people are known for struggling with understanding those, so probably just another side to it?
@olena @ideogram Gender is easy to understand as an #autistic. There are two sets of unwritten rules. One of them you are supposed to VERY MUCH and the other one you are supposed to NEVER. This is supposed to be very important to you for reasons and it's supposed to be obvious to you which set of behaviors you want to do. Violating these unwritten rules is punished even more severely than violating the regular unwritten rules because these are more important.
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@olena @ideogram Gender is how people will do social improv with you without a scenario, cue sheets, prior discussion, etc.
It's not precisely normative, because it's specific to quite small cultural groups (families) in a lot of particulars, and because there's a taboo about noticing it's not binary, that it's improv, or that the utility of the sortation isn't symmetric.
People getting violent about it are asserting "I get to hurt you until you do this thing how I say" rather than facts.
@BernieDoesIt @olena @ideogram And for even more irony, the official model is actively horribly wrong with respect to what people actually do.