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#AskingAutistics Does anyone else feel insecure about how much social justice / activist stuff they struggle to understand? Like famous books, important articles / posts, etc. I want to understand and be informed, but so much of it is non-literal or difficult in other ways.
And the problem is this applies to pretty much every topic, even (though to a lesser extent) stuff about being autistic. So I feel like I& #39;m falling behind on every topic, and I feel like I& #39;m failing both my own and other marginalised communities by not being informed enough.
I know part of this is my own internalised ableism and perfectionism. I& #39;m working on that and do seem to be progressing (yay!). But it is also frustrating how much stuff is inaccessible. And it& #39;s not the sort of thing where you can just Google it.
(semi-joking here) I wish there was some kind of translator, but instead of translating from one language to another, it translates from non-literal and complex communication into literal and straightforward.
It& #39;s like I have the same basic goals and feelings and perspective on society as other leftists, but they& #39;re all speaking Allistic and I only speak Autistic, so even in their everyday conversations I struggle to understand what they mean.
Stuff like scientific papers and books written decades / centuries ago are especially difficult, but my main problem is that everyday conversations and articles written in basic modern English can still be hard for me to comprehend. That& #39;s what I feel insecure about.
