I find it very sad that people are still misusing the 1 in 88 quote, but that’s neither here nor there. It’s people who are doing things like this, making these remarks, that are making my personal, real adult life, hard. Because I am a diagnosed Autistic. It seems “Autistic” is the new “Retarded”.

Autism Speaks already makes us out to be some horrible diseased thing to be eradicated, and now a man with 8-million followers has influenced a large population of followers against us.

And the lady was in the wrong too. She has an Autistic son, but mentions nothing of his feelings. It’s not just the families who suffer from things like this. The Autistic people, like me, suffer just as much, if not more, than the families. Because while they whinge about how hard it is to deal with my stimming, I have to deal with them yelling, forcing on me bad textures, and triggering my meltdowns (both intentionally and unintentionally, sometimes just because I “deserve” panic attacks and it’s funny).

Neurotypical parents are drowning their children in bathtubs, and being sympathized with. Neurotypical peers are murdering their classmates (I consider bullying into suicide to be murder).

I still have nightmares about being physically attacked after school in grade school. Most of these things come back to me randomly, because I was also too drugged up to realise what was going on.

And each time it’s like I’m re-living the experience and it’s just as traumatic as the first time. And now that I’m no longer drugged, I can understand what happens to me clearly. I can see the contempt. I can fight back, analyse it, and somehow that just makes it all worse.

High functioning doesn’t automatically mean “better” or “easier”. It just means that we started talking on time.

And high-functioning doesn’t mean that I’m capable of dealing with PTSD symptoms. Just like low-functioning doesn’t mean too stupid to understand what abuse is.

So when someone uses my diagnosis as an insult, when someone takes my EXISTENCE and makes it into an insult, implying this is the worst thing you could possibly be, that hurts. In more ways than just having my feelings hurt.

So when I see things like this, I get sad. 50 Cent, as a black rapper, should know a little something about being considered less than human by the world.

Fact is that a lot of people like me are just simply fed up with what’s going on in the world. When we’re made out as “monsters”, “stolen”, or “helpless”, that hurts. It directly impacts our quality of life. The biggest organization that is meant to bring awareness to our issues directly supports another organization that promotes eugenics; a cure, death, or forced sterilization, is their mantra.

And now 50 cent, a celebrity followed by 6.4million people, is perpetuating these stereotypes by using our existence as an insult. None of these people perpetuating these issues will listen to us when we speak out – they call us annoying, “too high functioning to matter”, or complainers. Neurotypical voices are inherently more powerful than ours, and he’s been given a voice even bigger than the average person’s. He should be using it for good. Does that make sense?

If 50 cent makes a sincere apology and explains why he understands that what he did was wrong, it would help us INFINITELY.