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Does anybody know where I can meet more autistic people like me? (lemmus.org)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I know this might sound strange but autistic people are roughly 3x more likely to be LGBT so you could consider going to an LGBT meetup. I'm neurodivergent and LGBT and that certainly matches my experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

LGBT people and groups can be pretty toxic though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My sister is a trans lesbian and she has had gay liberals call for her to be hate crimed at Trump rallies.

Conservative Christians are more accepting of her then liberals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I was repeatedly harassed in my old friend group of people who were made up of LGBT people because I was straight and cis. Eventually they convinced me to "consider" being non binary and then started simply telling me I was while insulting and bad talking cis males. If I ever objected they asked why I was defending something I wasn't. Eventually they shunned me out of their friend group for not conforming enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My sister is trans and gay and this statistic makes me uncomfortable. It can easily be abused by religious people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Religious nutjobs are going to abuse anything you give them either way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I’m a Christian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Me too!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

how does that stop you from going to a meetup?