Tag: autistic deaths

Autism & Victimization

cactus-spirit:

Somewhere I read that a symptom of autism/ ASD is a tendency to feel victimized. Feel. And I couldn’t get that out of my head because there is a difference between just saying that and saying “a tendency to be” victimized. Saying “feel” carries the implication that the victimization is in one’s head. 

But in any case, there’s  probably a reason people with ASD feel victimized:

Autistic children are more likely to be bullied. 

Autistic children are more likely to be abused.

Autistic children are more likely to experience sexual abuse and the abuse is less likely to be recognized because symptoms of being abused are often misinterpreted as “normal” autistic behavior. 

Autistics are more likely to be sexually assaulted because they are often taught compliance from a young age in therapies like ABA.

Autistics are more likely to be unemployed.

Employers discriminate against autism, autistics are more likely to be bullied by their coworkers, and many autistics lose their jobs because of it.

Schools find loopholes to discriminate against autistic children. 

Autistiscs have a higher risk of experiencing police brutality. 

Autistics are being murdered by their own caregivers, and the murderer is often given a lighter sentence because the victim was viewed as a burden.

Autistics suffer because they are not given effective medical care.

So, gee, that might be the problem. Not that autistic people just “feel” victimized.

actually. truscum, there’s already a cure. it’s conversion therapy. stop pretending cis people will ever care enough about our dysphoria to make a magical anti-dysphoria injection or whatever you imagine the Cure is going to look like. torturing us to get us to stop transitioning is always going to be less effort for them. just get it through your heads that there will be no cure other than electric shocks and psychological reprogramming

“psychiatry wouldn’t do that to us” they already do it to autistic kids to get rid of autism symptoms. after decades of looking for an autism cure it’s still only electroshock therapy and aborting autistic kids before birth. promises of autism cures have led to actual deaths. more times than i like to think about, when a parent is promised a cure for long enough and realise there isn’t one, the next ‘cure’ they try is murdering their child.

that’s why acceptance is the only way to go. acceptance will get less of us tortured and killed, no matter which group we’re talking about. stop giving cis people the idea that it’s okay to “fix” us because it will never be a good option for us, especially the children that can’t fight back.

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