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> changing social norms affect people on the spectrum, Gender fluidity is much more common among autistic people, so most autistic people handle it just fine.
by DanBC 7y ago
> changing social norms affect people on the spectrum,
Gender fluidity is much more common among autistic people, so most autistic people handle it just fine.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26753812 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26753812
- derefr 7y agoSensory processing disorders are common among people on the spectrum; but they do not tend to handle one-another’s (often opposed) disorders well at all, e.g. people who feel a need to stim, vs. people with misophonia who hate the sound people make when clapping their hands against themselves or constantly grunting. Explained more here: https://autofspoons.com/2017/12/02/competing-access-needs/ https://autofspoons.com/2017/12/02/competing-access-needs/
- DanBC 7y agoSure, "autistic people are all individuals with different views" is something I can agree with, and it's probably more correct than "autistic people cannot cope with using the word 'her' when asked to do so".