Aaron on Nostr: Zoning laws do not take autistic people into account. Police do not take autistic ...

Zoning laws do not take autistic people into account. Police do not take autistic people into account. People in general do not take autistic people into account. We are generally not social creatures, so people don't realize how many of us there are. And in my experience, they do not care. I can ask a neighbor to stop letting their dog bark all day, and face threats of violence for it, and then be mocked with slurs screamed at me while they do everything as noisily as they can, while the authorities do nothing. This is oddly specific because it is a real experience I am recounting. It is not cooperative. It is "my way or the highway" and we have no say, and we get slippery slope analogies and excuses but nobody actually cares enough to do things differently. Maybe it's different for you, but that's the world I live in. That's what I've learned from 45 years of chasing the mirage of someday being a respected equal among many.