The society we live in is so deeply and profoundly uninterested in offering support to autistic adults that it will never cease to impress me.
You go online to research tips for coping with routine change and get smacked in the face with article after article geared towards NT parents of autistic children. You try to filter for therapists that have experience working with adult autistic clients on your insurance network's website and your search results get clogged with chicks who do ABA for 6 year olds. You tell an NT person you're autistic and are immediately compared to their daughter. Is anyone else tired? I'm gonna go lift weights.
