40 Super Important Things People With Autism Wish You Realized 

31. A few of us may not have a voice, but that doesn’t give you assaholic creeps a right to rape us, assault us, murder us, or attack us because of it.

There are statistics that show autistic people get victimized far more than neurotypicals, and possibly a few other minorites, because of their inability to speak up. Many of us can speak up and defend ourselves, but we are still victims either way. It’s our job to turn that around.

32. How tiring it is to have to intentionally consider how other people feel during social interactions by running through contextual factors to determine likely emotions and appropriate responses. It must be so weird to “just know” how to respond socially.