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What is bothering you right now? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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We’re autistic, and one of the characteristics of being autistic is that we feel things deeply. On the positive side, when we are happy, we feel immense joy compared to others. On the negative side, we feel painful emotions more strongly than others as well. Because of this, many of us have been invalidated, insulted, or pushed away when all we were wanting was to share what we were going through and get support. Maybe even a really tight hug and someone telling us that it makes sense that we feel that way.

While we can’t give hugs, we can help each other by sharing our pain and having others help us through it. So here is that post. What’s bothering you? Why? Tell us.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have to deal with queerphobic and ableist people regularly :(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have to deal with queerphobic

Imagine caring that people have sex differently from you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Let's be honest, the people who want to control other people's sex lives probably do so because they have no sex life themselves ¯\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

omg this drives me bonkers. why are people so concerned with the sex others have?? I'm "straight" and I can't understand it. let people live their lives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

That deeply sucks. I used to have that and luckily got rid of those people in my life and found a cool LGBTQ+ gaming community that I'm now part of.

Hope you'll be free too at some point.