Image description: Image is a meme, in the "they don't know" party format. Mitch McConnell stands in the corner. The image depicts McConnell when he stopped speaking while giving a speech. People dancing say "Is he dying?" and "Is it a stroke?". Mitch McConnell says "They don't know I'm shitting myself".
Being principled is not inferior, we're being being pathologized for it because it is a threat to the corrupt powers. The existing power structures see this pattern as dangerous to them, because principled people are more likely to see through their bullshit and try to remake society in a way that is beneficial to all- which means removing evil from power. So, the powerful are using their influence in the media and medical establishment to consider principled behavior to be an undesirable symptom. So, we have to keep being principled. Keep caring. Keep resisting. Keep trying to create a better way. Keep trying to create networks, projects, and relationships based on real values, rather than harming each other, which only makes the established powers more powerful.
Immigration- Some countries will deny you the ability to immigrate if you are diagnosed at autistic.
Courts- If you have to deal with the legal system, there is the potential for a diagnosis to be used against you.
Police- Police are notoriously ableist, and if they know you're autistic, it could put you in more danger than you'd be in otherwise.
Infantilization- The general public is very poorly informed about autism. Many people in the general public think of autistic people as being severely cognitively disabled. Even many people in medical professions, who would have access to your diagnosis information through your medical records, are very poorly informed and might treat you like a liar or as though you are incapable of making your own decisions.
Workplace discrimination- While you would not need to disclose that you are autistic at work, if your workplace found out, they could use that information to discriminate against you. Yes, it's illegal and unethical, but workplaces do illegal and unethical things all the time. Also, it's possible for workplaces to find legal ways to discriminate against people, and if they know about your diagnosis, they could try to discriminate against you for that. Also, if potential workplaces find out about your diagnosis through other means, like social media, they could use that information to decide not to hire you. Yes, that's illegal, but it's very difficult to prove.
I feel like the phrase "sleeping like a baby" was not created by someone who was a primary caretaker for a baby.
"Don't be a quitter" is like saying "Fuck your boundaries. Stay in toxic situations no matter how bad they get."
That's so rude. People make such wild assumptions about other people's lives.
Ah yes, the good ol' "Just get over it" technique that is supposed to work for any mental health condition.
Maybe in some situations in the past owners were better to their workers, but in many cases there is an unbroken line of exploitation going back in the past. The idea that exploitation is an extremely new phenomenon benefits the owning class by concealing the long and bloody history of proletarian struggles.
14 years is a long time. Hope you're having a better time now.
Oof. A lot of "helpful advice" about jobs is helpful not for the workers, but for the owning class.
Acab includes the crime skeleton