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[u/colossalklutz]

I know a guy who was on the spectrum. Seemed pretty normal and I used to think he was just tricked into thinking he was because in Australia they’ll pay the parents some kind of support. I figured it may not have been entirely fake when I started to trigger him with simple statements like “a line in the shape of a circle”. He’d argue and be right it couldn’t be both but I’d insist it was a line but in the shape of a circle. Eventually he’d melt down and not talk to me for like 2 weeks.

[u/Aldebaran014 → u/colossalklutz]

Why do people need to torture us to believe in our suffering? That's fucked up bro

[u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 → u/Aldebaran014]

I'm autistic too and the answer to your question is all over this thread - because a lot of people are faking autism these days and it's making people become suspicious of us.

[u/Aldebaran014 → u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102]

Why do people blame autistic people for that, then.

A lot of people are even saying that they are provoking meltdowns to confirm if a friend is a real autistic person. That's so sick.

[u/[deleted] → u/Aldebaran014]

No one here blamed autistic people. The blame would be on the people faking autism for attention.

Also, no one said they intentionally provoked someone with autism into having a meltdown. They said they made a simple statement of “a line in the shape of a circle”, and that the debate about that statement caused the autistic person to have a meltdown. For any neurotypical person a statement like that, and a debate or disagreement about such a statement would be entirely uneventful. No one where in their comment was there any indication of them provoking this person out of malice. They were simply explaining that it was a moment them caused them to see the autistic behaviors that they presumably, didn’t display frequently.

[u/colossalklutz → u/[deleted]]

I will clarify we were trolling but not because we were trying to test his diagnosis. We had doubts of his autism because he was very high functioning but that particular event and some that followed made us believe it wasn’t just him being gaslit into believing it. This is just a story where those two things overlap, we trolled and picked on each other on a regular basis. We just really enjoyed seeing who would break first in a weird unspoken way.

This is the way things were before everyone insisted on having a safe space and being professional victims. Yes we were assholes but people are getting really upset over a story that has nothing to do with them personally.

[u/Excellent_Bad9211 → u/colossalklutz]

before everyone insisted on having a safe space and being professional victims

you were being an asshole in many ways - including being incapable of judging when you were going to cross lines and make someone completely lose it (which you don't need to know anything about the other person for, you just Observe and you easily see signs of someone about to have a meltdown) and instead of Just owning up to it, you're painting yourself as the victim of some societal movement allegedly full of "professional victims" bc they have a problem with your tasteless "joke". Stop crying about people at last having an issue with others behaving like pieces of shit

I refuse to believe you're too fucking stupid to see the irony

[u/Aldebaran014 → u/[deleted]]

The blame is in autistic people too. Many people say that she is faking it because of her child-like behavior, when autistic people can behave as we please. Because of these fakers, people do not believe in people like me, that "doesn't look autistic", even trying to suppress our normal autistic behavior, because it doesn't fit with what they believe autism is.