Few notes about this journal.

Mostly, this will be a mirror of our LJ, sethrenn, and used for posting of more self-advocacy-oriented stuff, while general day-to-day natter will stay on LJ. At this point, we don't plan on making any friends-only entries or filters, though we might change our mind at some point depending on how things go.

Bullies and trolls are not welcome here. If your intent is to bully, manipulate, or concern-troll us, our friends and acquaintances, or autistics or plurals in general, we will not give you a platform for it here. If you want to ask questions of us, many of them may be better answered on our webpage, so please bear that in mind. We don't want to sound offputting, but being constantly put on the spot in public and asked to answer questions feels very much like being told that the fact that we exist obligates us to constantly satisfy the curiosities of those with more privilege and power. And we've had enough of the self-narrating zoo exhibit treatment in other contexts, so please, if you want to ask us a question in the vein of "this is all so fascinating, and I was wondering if...", think about how you would feel if someone asked you a similar question, why you want to know it, whether you may be letting an unconscious sense of entitlement affect you, and check to see whether we have already answered it on our page.

On the manipulativeness of holding people to nonexistant claims.

Crossposted from LJ. Sort of a rant, because we are really, really sick of seeing this kind of thing.

( Having to explain over, and over, and over again that you didn't say something that you never said. )

...oh, and to add to that, it is even more ridiculous when your taking a person's words about themselves at face value is used as alleged "evidence" that your believing they're telling the truth is part of some grand social and political design, that in reality you would probably not be able to identify or understand if it were going on. Much less join in on it. But saying "I'm not cognitively capable of that" doesn't seem to matter or be seen as worthy of taken seriously, in some places, unless a bully is saying it. (While at the same time accusing others up and down of trampling on their disabilities by the way they communicate, or whatever, and making themselves out to be the supreme victims.)