remember when you used to go over to your friend’s house and you’d go down to the “computer room” to the dad’s old shitty desktop computer and sit on the giant black leather computer chair and your friend would show you charlie the unicorn and epic rap battles of history type of stuff on youtube while thier younger siblings bugged you for a turn to use the computer
It’s alright to ask! And it is ableist. And even if it weren’t, they should respect your wishes to not be referred to as so.
Autistics can present seemingly “childish” (according to others) traits, and calling us childish for those traits are demeaning.
People have talked down to me like a child my hole life. I’ve had people younger then me call me “kid”. Because my speech mannerisms were different and that’s when I even speak. Because I didn’t know how to keep a back and forth conversation and how to know when a topic ended or when to not change the topic I was treated like a child.
I was often talked to like a 9 year old talking about what I learnt in school instead of an adult talking about my interest when I info dumped. These are really demeaning. And this is why they should not be calling you “childish”.
It’s disrespectful of them and I am sorry you have to deal with that.
Yes! That is ableist! Autistics are very often infentalized (ignore misspelling) and called children for our autistic traits, please don’t call us childish.
Its not ‘born in the wrong body’ its ‘assigned the wrong gender at birth’ – lets try shifting the blame off the literally-seconds-old baby and onto the society with the outdated views of gender instead, mkay friendo
lavenduers 