okay, here's part 2.
I'm gonna start this one with a warning. I am a heterosexual male who has very little experience with LGBT outside of a few of my friends. If I say something wrong or I identify something wrong, I mean no offense to anyone, and please do not take it that way, I am trying my best.
Fun fact: a 2018 study found that around 70% of Autistic people regard themselves as something other than heterosexual. This is mostly explained by other Autistic people way more informed on this subject than I am as being connected to Autistic people's tendencies to question social norms & what society wants people to do and believe.
one of the main Autism advocate accounts I follow (@the.autisticats on instagram, @autisticats on twitter) is run entirely by LGBT Autistic people. To accept Autistic people you must accept LGBT and vice-versa. The two are more interconnected than it may at first seem.
I won't pretend to be massively intelligent and I'm sure I've insulted someone with my wording on this somewhere. My point more being that going into pride month, only two months after watching Autistic people suffer through our own version in April, keep in mind that all of the groups of underrepresented and repressed minorities are far more intertwined than you may have expected.
this 2nd one was just a shorter post to quickly cover this topic, since I thought it was an appropriate one to address, and I felt comfortable attempting to put best into words what little I understood in the hopes of possibly reaching one Autistic person who may be scared and confused and bullied to tell them that they are not alone, and they will never be alone. There's a massive community of incredible people with so many who will understand and there is always someone in the community willing to help you work through your problems.
stay safe everyone
happy pride month
- Josh.
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