The fact that we look just like them? doesn't help.
To straight society we look... maybe speak... too MUCH like them.
So we autistics inhabit that same "ai-generated uncanny valley" that freaks them out so much. Handsome... with extra fingers. Professionals... with our Dockers on backwards.
As if we were "them" in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Sparking the Creeps. Horror. Pitchforks.
And the harder we try to look like them? The more uncanny our mask looks. To them.
In a way? Dropping the mask... really... entirely?
Might be the smartest survival play of all time.
Maybe... let your freak flag fly, baby.
It is the only strategy worked... for me. Took me at least 6 years. Of exhausting work... simplifying my life. And painful mistakes.
So I can't recommend some fucking system to you. We all are different. Different situations. Skills.
But maybe? Bears thinking about?
Every step of my journey… hard as it was… decreased my pain. And today was worth it.
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