allistics'/neurotypicals' collective inability to perceive of experiences other than their own both blows my fucking mind out of the water & simply enrages me, on the daily.
https://twitter.com/SNeurotypicals/status/1246154825588289536

LYKE....

the TOTAL PROJECTION
the TOTAL GASLIGHTING

&& how we STILL TEACH THEORY OF MIND IN UNIVERSITIES. AND THAT AUTISTIC PEOPLE LACK IT it's so ableist it's so bad it's so FALSE. if you can, please speak up against it when you see it.

Follow some #ActuallyAutistic people, and you'll soon find that they have some of *The. Most. DEVELOPED.* interpersonal/"theory of mind" skills.

That's what MASKING is.

AUTISTIC PEOPLE LITERALLY SPEND ALL DAY USING COMPLEX UNDERSTANDINGS OF "THEORY OF MIND" SIMPLY TO EXIST IN AN ALLISTIC WORLD.

and why???

BECAUSE ALLISTICS *HISTORICALLY* STRUGGLE TO UNDERSTAND THE FIRST THING ABOUT AUTISTIC MINDS.

allistics are the ones with the ~theory of mind~ problems.

one of the people you should for-sure follow, if you don't already, is @AutisticAlex174 !!

i have to partially credit Alex for this thread, for helping me sort my thoughts when a Social Psych class started teaching us "how people with ASD lack theory of mind."

i saw it for what it was, convoluted; but it confused the everliving shit out of me.

the "theory of mind" mess runs parallel with the whole "empathy" mess........ which, if you know what i'm talking about, you are my people.