autistics-speak:

karadin:

stimpoweredgiraffe:

i was ranting about ableism on twitter and.  i realize a lot of people genuinely do not know this and dont mean harm. so please know this and cause less harm. you will make my life and the life of other autistic people just a little bit better.

and people can gain new skills over time, where you are now is not where you will always be.

Also, what skills and needs an individual autistic person has can vary a lot over time (even day to day or hour to hour!) depending on lots of factors. When I am not putting my energy into dealing with sensory overload or making the effort to seem neurotypical to judgy people, I’m able to cultivate a lot of abilities that I just can’t maintain when I’m under heavy stress.