umbrasuggestion:

I’ve noticed something about the way neurodivergent people’s emotions are treated. If you’re more emotional than other people, suddenly you’re “childish” or “irrational” or even “dangerous” and your feelings get devalued, brushed aside as meaningless just because you feel and express them intensely. If you’re less emotional than other people, you’re “robotic” or “basically dead” and people forget you have feelings at all. We’re demonized either way. So I just want to let you know: whatever levels of emotion, empathy, and affect you have are the right amount for you. You aren’t doing anything wrong, and it’s not your fault if people misunderstand you. We’re fine the way we are.