PSA: You actually CAN ask your Autistic or otherwise Neurodivergent classmate to prom without inviting the news to cover it, or recording it and posting it on Facebook, fishing for people to call you “inspirational” or a “hero”.
That is all.
“I wish the media would stop posting about people that love neurodivergent people and thus inspiring others to reach out. They should just show us as hated victims. No positivity allowed :(”
“I don’t understand why autistic people don’t like when allistic people use them to get attention”
In my old school some girl asked out an autistic kid and the school made it into this big thing about how progressive they are and stuff like that even though we (autistics) were almost always bullied and ostracized while teachers did shit about it. I even had a teacher bar me form participating in a debate and treated me like a preschooler because she found out i was autistic, and no, she didnt get in trouble for it.
basically they used the story to cover up the bullying that was always going on in the school