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Inspired by a post I saw earlier -- if you find yourself reading books about autistic people from allistic (non-autistic) authors, let me recommend this beautiful little book of poetry and essays written in our own voices.

You'll be surprised by how different the inside perspective is, and in a culture hugely dominated by misinformation and stigma, that is more valuable than I can begin to say.

I have talents that I'm not supposed to have: I can tell who crushes on who by how they stand, I can read strides, I can hear the tonal differences between an alto and a soprano singing the same line so clearly that to me they sing entirely different notes, and I can read through the lines and tell when a person doesn't need to be writing at all. That, that is what makes me a snob...