Your Bigotry Is A Lie

Or: how my autistic self-advocacy is based in a need to tell the truth.

Sometimes I struggle to explain why I'm so interested in autistic representation in the genres I read, because I'm not sure I vibe with everyone else's reasons. The prevailing story is about how lonely people feel when they don't see people like themselves in the stories they read, and how validated they feel when they finally do. I can empathize with t…