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I have figured out a pattern (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by Angry_Autist@lemmy.world to c/autism@lemmy.world
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This is something I have been concerned about for a long time, the targeted harassment we tend to face.

I posted a while back about that study that people rate autistic communications 30% below average, and got a lot of flak for that which surprised me

The thing is, this study proves that people can identify autistic traits and instinctively rate the communications of that person lower despite the content being the same as the control group.

So many things make so much more sense here, especially when it ties into the historic targeting of autists by narcissists and sociopaths. And right now we live in a narcissist society, all the top positions of power and wealth are currently held by narcissists

I am so fucking tired of people telling me I'm imagining it, I'm so tired of having my great ideas ignored because "Well what you said is good but we don't like how you said it"

Those in power target us, we have no recourse, and the president just fucking signed an EO making it legal to kidnap us and institutionalize us and NO ONE fucking cares

We fucking built society and INVENTED EVERYTHING and the narcissists take the lions share of the profit as we are marginalized, ignored, and sid

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[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

My tinfoil hat tells me it is, even if not on a conscious level.