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I have figured out a pattern
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One way the power manifests on digital forums (and also, schools):
Autistic user posts, narcissist aggression begins
Autistic user reports aggression, nothing is done, aggression intensifies
Autistic user, at the end of their rope, responds in kind to aggression, is immediately targeted as 'the problem', gets censured banned or suspended
Abuse continues after the fact through PMs or forum posts that of course the autistic user cannot respond to anymore
Repeat till all autistic users are silenced or marginalized
It happened to reddit, it's happening here and I am so fucking tired of the narcissists taking my online spaces
Depressingly, narcissism is more socially acceptable than autism (and I suspect narcissists can "play the game" more easily, too). My impression is that this more applicable in western culture with our emphasis on individuality, with the US taking top place with its "American exceptionalism" (to be fair, my own country did export one of the worst - Rupert Murdoch).
The funny thing is narcissists are FAR more dangerous to themselves and others than autists would ever be
But they are praised as the ultimate American, you are very on the nose there.
We forgive you for Rupert Murdoch, one nation alone cannot contain that much evil. It saddens me that there is likely no afterlife for him to suffer punishment in