To expect autistic people to automatically like anyone with a disability is to be judgmental and condescending.
I have this feeling that non-disabled neurotypical people expect Autistics to embrace every single disabled individual.
What I mean by that is make a connection with them.
Ironically, it’s okay for those NTs to feel disdain towards other NTs for whatever reason in the world. This is a double standard.
I’ve been to social events for autistic people, and there were some that I simply did not like. A few have been total jerks.
Here’s a question to neurotypicals (NTs): Have you ever met a person or been around someone you had not spoken to, but just sensed something about that person that didn’t sit well with you?
Or, have you ever ended up in chitchat with a newly-met person, but…doggone it, something just didn’t synch right? And you never again wanted to interact with that person?
Well guess what: It’s entirely possible for this to occur between two autistic people or an autistic person and someone with a non-autistic disability.
There may also be a more pinpointed reason, such as, for example, me perceiving that a particular woman talks too loud and acts entitled.
I don’t care if she has an intellectual impairment or is autistic or is this or that. To me, she’s a human first, and some humans are insufferable.
The fact that I’m very capable of disliking a disabled person means that I’ve looked PAST their disability.
I’m treating them as “normal” instead of pretending to like them because they have a certain diagnosis.
I see all people — disabled or not, autistic or not — as potentially likeable or dislikeable, INDEPENDENT of any handicap, medical condition or other atypical hindrance.
