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How to call in/out an autistic without being super ablist or undermining the potential for better:
1. Is someone else explaining? Then your 2 cents is not needed unless nobody is actually explaining. 200 people yelling becomes a wall of noise in which explanations are lost. 1/7
1. Is someone else explaining? Then your 2 cents is not needed unless nobody is actually explaining. 200 people yelling becomes a wall of noise in which explanations are lost. 1/7
2. Are you actually explaining, which means understanding the concept yourself and putting it in a way that does not require an allistic mindset to understand? Yelling "You know what you did" and refusing to elaborate is not an explanation. 2/7
3. If you believe it is not your task to explain, have you at least given them the space and time to process and research or are you just continuing with yelling because it makes you feel better/self righteous? 3/7
4. Did they really mess up or are you accusing them on a different axis because they called you out/in and it's easier for you to pretend they're being oppressive for criticising you than reconsider what you said/did? 4/7
5. I did it right, they were still defensive! You may be one of a number of people to come at them that day, an autistic has to work out whose just screaming because they're a bigot and who they genuinely hurt and then process it for a while, have you given them that time? 5/7
6. Did you brush off their attempts to get _appropriate_ accommodations from you as "using autism as an excuse"? Nobody is asking for you to let us off, just to take into account that we are not allistic. 6/7
In summary, being autistic is not an excuse to be a bigot even if you don't intend to be, but equally well many of the ways autistics are called out/in not only can be extremely ablist but actively harmful. 7/7
