Art by Amy Nguyen
Autistic people are like, “yeah I love following rules” and then proceed to rip apart the gender binary
I love following good rules. bad rules keep me from following better ones so I put them through a meat grinder and see what happens
The official rules suck, I have written my own.
the rules have to be consistent or they’re not the real rules
there are very few things less consistent than the gender binary
That’s not a contradiction at all. “I love following rules” means “I love having clear instructions instead of them being implied”. It doesn’t mean “I love obeying authority” or “I love conforming”.
People: gender is a RIDGED, SOLID THING and it only looks like THIS
Me: why
People: Because!
Me, arming my catapult: Hold on a sec i wanna test something
the most #UselessLesbian thing i have ever done was when i was trying to figure out if this girl liked me or not, just constantly arguing with myself about it, and after a couple, uh, months, of this, i was like, “god i wish i could just like… go to court and lay out all this evidence and have a couple lawyers argue over the TRUE MEANING of her text messages, and then a judge tells me if she likes me or not.” and then the proverbial lightbulb went off over my proverbial head, and i dug into my mock trial folder from high school and found the trial guidelines and i wrote out an entire trial transcript featuring a plaintiff (me), my attorney (my wildest hopes and dreams), a defense attorney (my worst fears and insecurities), and a judge (my desperate attempt at rationality). the final product was several thousand words long. it clarified nothing. at any point in this process did it occur to me to ask her how she felt about me? absolutely not. did i ever stop and think, “hey, maybe i should tell her that i like her?” absolutely not. that’s for people who take risks and i don’t take risks i take myself to court in my own head.
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