Anonymous asked: My brother is autistic and he usually laughs a lot when he sees people crying. It's like they're telling him a joke or something XD Is this part of the autism spectrum or of his personality?
Many autistic people display emotional reactions to things that others consider inappropriate, because autistic people tend to communicate emotions in nonstandard ways. It also might be a coping mechanism for empathy overload, which autistic people can experience. I have an impulse to laugh when I see others crying, and it’s a coping mechanism for not being able to handle all the empathy I feel in that situation.
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Autistic Problem #119: Simon Baron-Cohen’s erasure of autistic transfeminine people, autistic trans women, and autistic non-binary people.
Submitter’s note: According to Simon Baron-Cohen’s theory of autism as having a hypermasculinized brain, autistic trans men are the only kinds of autistic trans people there are. According to his theory, autistic trans women, autistic transfeminine people, and autistic nonbinary people of any birth assignment shouldn’t (and don’t) exist.
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Autistic Problem #118: The fact that some allistics presume that every autistic person likes Science and Maths when really that’s just a stereotype.
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Autistic Problem #116: Not knowing how to adjust to being independent when you were horribly sheltered and not allowed to be yourself as a child.
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Autistic Problem #114: When you’re not heterosexual, and a person tries to tell you that your sexual orientation is invalid because you’re autistic.
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Autistic Problem #112: When you’re trans and/or nonbinary, and a person tries to tell you that your gender identity is invalid because you’re autistic.
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![Autistic Problem #119: Simon Baron-Cohen’s erasure of autistic transfeminine people, autistic trans women, and autistic non-binary people.
Submitter’s note: According to Simon Baron-Cohen’s theory of autism as having a hypermasculinized brain, autistic trans men are the only kinds of autistic trans people there are. According to his theory, autistic trans women, autistic transfeminine people, and autistic nonbinary people of any birth assignment shouldn’t (and don’t) exist.
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![Autistic Problem #118: The fact that some allistics presume that every autistic person likes Science and Maths when really that’s just a stereotype.
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![Autistic Problem #117: Asking for help and then feeling ashamed for it.
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![Autistic Problem #116: Not knowing how to adjust to being independent when you were horribly sheltered and not allowed to be yourself as a child.
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![Autistic Problem #115: “Oh, but you don’t act like it.”
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![Autistic Problem #113: When your cutlery doesn’t match.
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![Autistic Problem #112: When you’re trans and/or nonbinary, and a person tries to tell you that your gender identity is invalid because you’re autistic.
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