Asking because my gf has ADHD and she told me that, the first time she took ritalin (methylphenidate), she thought to herself “So this is what it feels like to not have ADHD?”
That got me thinking, is there a drug that has a similar effect on autists, that allows them to experience what is it like to “not have autism”?
@DaGeek247 @paultimate14 @ICastFist This.
A lot of us autistic people tend to look down on allistics. Sometimes it’s a coping strategy to deal with the judgements levied against us, sometimes it’s a refusal to see our own flaws.
… and it’s not without value sometimes, because there are sometimes the allistics just suck… (see Identity Theory of Autism that highlights how we’re morally much more consistent than them)