"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."

-a 15yo autistic girl experiencing ABA therapy

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  • Zoop@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    I’m so sorry. You deserve better!! It’s totally understandable that you’re so overwhelmed!

    Sounds like we’re in pretty similar shitty situations and in the same state and everything. Both in the sense that we’re stuck in Oklahoma and in the state of being super fucking overwhelmed and not knowing what to do and stuff.

    This probably makes very little sense; I have a hard time finding my words because of the whole overwhelmed and autistic burnout thing. But I didn’t wanna say nothing, ya know? I feel for you so much. I hope you figure something out and things improve for you soon. 💖💖💖💖

    • KeriKitty (They(/It))English
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      8 months ago

      Localish-frond! 🪴 (It’s like a friend but also a pretty, leafy fern-part! Also nearish-by!)

      I hope things improve for you too. Maybe we can even escape together! … Or just daydream about it, I guess. Not likely hell-world fate’s gonna let either of us be happy, let alone both <.< :-\ 🤷 mumbles other things

      Thanks for saying a thing, though. Sometimes wordsing is hard or just frustrating or things.