How dare you?
I'm on the spectrum. And I have to tell you, even having learned this about you, I actually loathe your writing more.
I have spent my entire life struggling for acceptance. I have found a peer group. I have tried to find friends. I have warmed people over who get to know me. I've gone out to seek help. To try and accomodate other people.
I know I'm flawed. I know people will never view me as perfect. I can live with that. I realize that they are going through their own struggles and I'm capable of empathy.
I agree with you about masking that it makes everybody else life easier. I think civility is a wasted virtue. But I don't love my black hole. I wish I could live without it. I tolerate it, I don't accept it. Especially not in people who use it as an excuse.
I've known people like that. I've DATED people like that.
I've read your articles for two years. You're using your condition as an excuse, a justification for your utter contempt for everyone else in the world for your point of view. Their is a black hole inside of you.
I'm neurodivergent and its hurt me. You're using it to mask the factr you don't want to accept. There is something missing from you. And for all your claims of not people's approval, i think that's exactly why you write all this articles. You want people to tell you how brave you are. And when people tell you what a jackass you are, you dismiss them as 'not understanding you'.
To be clear, people who embrace their dark places - they are sociopaths and psychopaths. That's practically the definition of the term. To say it is for thee and not for me, is actually worse.
And don't you say accept people. Your entire world view is one of rejection. Of democracy, of humanity, of the world in general. You like the cool dark place and your only happy when everyone else in one of your own.
Don't you dare speak for me or anyone else on the spectrum and you don't dare try to use it for a justification. This is the most offensive thing you've ever written and you've set that bar very high.