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lemmy users when autistics refuse to mask literally 24/7 (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 months ago by vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/autism@lemmy.world

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like. imagine actually holding this fuckshit opinion. what the fuck?

🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈 English Nobody even wants to make eye contact with anyone anymore idk about you but i’m heavily autistic Psythik @lemmy.world So am I but I still force myself do it because I don’t want everyone to think I’m an asshole. 🌈 vanta rainbow black 🌈 English valid i long ago stopped masking for the comfort of neurotypicals. but to each their own GalacticRobot @lemmy.world Seems like in life the better way to get along is to learn to work with the normal rather than flat out rejecting it and somehow thinking you are special.

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[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

LOL. OK, I get it, but do we need to do the "Hey look at this fuckin' asshole" ragebait posts here? I'm alright if we don't.

On masking, you can burn out from it.. then you realize its gotta stop.

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[–] vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children)

yeah idk i was just frustrated. like this kind of shit you expect on corpo social media, like reddit or whatever, but it feels different when this crap happens on the fediverse. on ostensibly more welcoming home turf. i've been on here since 2017 primarily on mastodon and seeing blatant bigotry like that just feels wrong. it is definitely more common on the lemmy side of fedi however

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[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

Yeah, I do understand.

The right move is to not give this person much of your thought. Like you can dismiss this person’s opinion as irrelevant and misguided and not spend any more time on it.

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[–] vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone [S] 1 point 2 months ago

i guess coming here to vent helped me feel better that not all of lemmy is like that

but yeah you're right

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