Status Updates From Strong Female Character

“The use of ‘cunt’ in Scotland is interchangeable with person or people. For example, ‘good cunt’ is an informal term for someone who is an all around great guy. A ‘daft cunt’ is a silly person.”

My American brain is clutching its pearls LOL

“I grew up confident about my queerness. Girls at school made fun of me for it, but autism’s lack of regard for social norms combined with my constant sapphic novel reading had given me confidence and I maintained unruffled. I couldn’t imagine being anything other than bisexual & never thought of it as weird. It took repeated messages over and over and over again to instill a suitable amount of shame in me.”

3/3 - mistrust and misunderstanding. People frequently took my sincerity as calculating in some way and my insincerity as truth.”

2/3 - manipulative. They mistake our fact finding missions as prying. Lots of autistic women find eye contact just as uncomfortable as autistic men do, but our social camouflaging leads us to attempt it anyway, and consequently, some of us hold peoples’ gaze for an unnervingly long amount of time. Couple all this with a tendency for society to assume that women in general are scheming and you have a toxic mix of

1/2 “I’ve discovered that one of the most hurtful aspects of crossed wires in a lifetime of dealing with allistic people is that they tend to look for and assume there’s an unspoken agenda in your behavior. When they do that with autistic people, who are the least Machiavellian people on earth and not great at making speedy social calculations, they read our awkward attempts at small talk as cold and