People With Autism Are Sharing The Things They Thought Were Normal Until A Neurotypical Person Told Them Otherwise

“It only dawned on me then that people saying, ‘Well, but I want to hug you,’ is not more important than me saying, ‘I don’t like that.’ And that maybe, just maybe, I wasn’t the a*hole — the people who forced me to do something I wasn’t comfortable with were.”

—V-by-V