Who cares if most people don’t love you for who you are? Heck, in my book, if they do, you’re doing it wrong. Making yourself inoffensive enough that more than 50% of the population is willing to be your friend and having any sense of individuality are mutually exclusive.
So WHAT if you’re weird? Plenty of people are. Why care what the people who don’t like you think when there are plenty of people who do? Why settle for hanging out with neurotypical people who only put up with you because you bring snacks to their DnD games when you could hang out with people who are just as weird as you and like the same things you like in the same moderately obsessive way you like them?
I just can’t stand the idea that you’d treat autism as a disease that should be wiped out because neurotypical people find it annoying.
And my point is as follows: So?
Who cares if most people don’t love you for who you are? Heck, in my book, if they do, you’re doing it wrong. Making yourself inoffensive enough that more than 50% of the population is willing to be your friend and having any sense of individuality are mutually exclusive.
So WHAT if you’re weird? Plenty of people are. Why care what the people who don’t like you think when there are plenty of people who do? Why settle for hanging out with neurotypical people who only put up with you because you bring snacks to their DnD games when you could hang out with people who are just as weird as you and like the same things you like in the same moderately obsessive way you like them?
I just can’t stand the idea that you’d treat autism as a disease that should be wiped out because neurotypical people find it annoying.