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A community for respectful discussion and memes related to autism acceptance. All neurotypes are welcome.

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[–] BirbSeed 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As someone who is not autistic and seeing posts like these on the main page several times, I would be stoked for someone to bring topics like this up in conversation instead of the normal boring small talk.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I had a coworker on the spectrum and talking about the random ass movies he watched recently were a highlight of the day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who is not autistic

Are you sure? ;-)

[–] BirbSeed 1 points 1 year ago

No diagnosis for it, but who knows 🤷