"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."
-a 15yo autistic girl experiencing ABA therapy
her tumblr no longer exists or I would have linked to it, but her name was stimmyabby there, and i hope that wherever she is now she's doing okay <3
EDIT: apparently her tumblr was simply renamed! although she's not posted since 2018 :(
the link to the original post is here: https://flyingpurplepizzaeater.tumblr.com/post/115216522824/sometimes-people-use-respect-to-mean-treating
@DionRa Her Tumblr still exists she just renamed, to https://flyingpurplepizzaeater.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20bones%20said . (Posting her original posts tag specifivally because I like her words.)
She hasn't posted since 2018. I'm heartbroken I miss her so much, she was (is?? please let it be is.) the best wordsmith of our generation.
She was the best of us.
@DionRa <3
I miss her so much.
🏳️🌈 Dion 🏳️⚧️🫶🏿
Gadfly (-booq-)