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The amount of shame I carry in pretty much every interaction either in person or online simply by virtue of existing as an autistic person is likely unfathomable to non-autistic people. Add to that the shame that those people both intentionally and unintentionally pile on top, plus the further shame of making mistakes myself, and the weight can sometimes be almost too much to bear.
I yearn for a day where there is no such thing as neurotypicality or neurodivergence, rather, we just accept people as they are and do our best to accommodate everyone regardless of brain-body functioning, gender, sex, race, etc., etc. This of course requires a dramatic overhaul of… literally everything, and I fear that is a long, long ways off.