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Neurotypicals often make these 6 mistakes when dealing with autistic people. Since we live in an ableist society, many neurotypicals have misconceptions and ideas about autistic people that inform how they interact with them. When neurotypicals do these things, it makes autistic people feel disrespected and distant. In an attempt to bridge the gap, this video summarizes the most common mistakes...

A common social mistake for autistic adults to make is we think the people who we see at work or school (AKA acquaintances) everyday are our friends. The reason why I think we make this mistake often is because it's not always super clear the boundaries between an acquaintance and a friend. In this video I try to differentiate between acquaintances and friends so that people with autism spectru...

"Female autism" is a phrase and concept I've seen repeated often in online autism communities. It's essentially the notion that there are two distinct types of autism spectrum disorder, autism in women and autism in men. Despite the phrase being intended to bring awareness to the misdiagnosis of women and the gender bias in traditional autism research, I think it's a somewhat problematic concep...

I'm a feminist. I'm also autistic. Feminism, despite all its progress, still alienates women who aren't neurotypical in numerous ways. This is due to a lack of intersectionality mainly, especially when it's regarding disability. Throughout history, feminism has prioritized neurotypical women. I identify the main 4 ways in which feminism fails autistic women: lack of intersectionality, wage gape...

Are you an autistic person who's tired of losing friends? Not having a partner? Do you just want to be able to talk to neurotypicals without them treating you like you're infected with a disease? Then you might be making these mistakes in conversations without realizing it. It's easy to forget that neurotypical people have different brains than people with autism and therefore there are differe...

When you hear a woman talking about her difficulty with making female friends or that guys are "less drama", you're probably quick to label her as a pick-me girl. The gen z slang term "pick-me girl" has become increasingly more popular to use against women who get along better with men than women, sometimes unfairly. Often, the slang word "pick-me girl" is overused against women who are often n...

If you meet an autistic person, this video gives you some good things to say to them if you want them to hate you (JK). Luckily, I haven't really experienced anyone saying those things to me really, but it has happened to others I'm sure. Basically, don't say these things to autistic people if you wouldn't say them to someone who isn't autistic.