r/autism • u/Business-Block-8668 ASD Level 1 | Verbal • 4h ago
🎉 Success/Celebration Happy Pride Month to all the autistic queer folks! 🏳️🌈✨
Happy pride month! I am a AuDHD a-spec lesbian myself. I love being able to love people who share my gender. We will still continue to be ourselves and defend ourselves. No matter what anyone says or does!
To everyone who is an ally, we appreciate you all as well! I hope every autistic queer person have a great pride month!
🤩✨🤎🖤🏳️🌈🫶🏾
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u/Soeffingdiabetic 4h ago
Happy pride! I was dragged on to stage by a drag queen yesterday at an event it it already made my whole pride month.
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u/Business-Block-8668 ASD Level 1 | Verbal 4h ago
Omg that sounds so much fun! I want to go to pride events as well. As soon as I get my license and a car LOL
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u/SandSerpentHiss 3h ago
ally but happy pride month motherfuckers
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u/EpicPoggerGamer69 2h ago
Oh I am going to be extra annoying this pride month...
WOKE IS BACK BITCHES
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u/Business-Block-8668 ASD Level 1 | Verbal 2h ago
YESSSSS 🤩
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u/EpicPoggerGamer69 1h ago
And yes, I WILL make by gender and sexuality my whole life all month! Fuck the right!
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u/Ok-Confection4378 2h ago
Thank you same to you happy pride month 🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙I’m new and this is the first post I replied to on here!
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u/Business-Block-8668 ASD Level 1 | Verbal 2h ago
Omg we are so happy to have you here! I hope you have a great experience in this sub and continue to stay in it. Happy pride month! 🥰✨
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u/ResolutionIcy8013 High Functioning, Gender Expression Neutral 2h ago
How I know it's Pride Month?
Tell Me Why is free.
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u/Accomplished_Way6125 ASD Level 1 | Verbal 19m ago
Happy Pride from a fellow AuDHD a-spec lesbian! 🥳🏳️🌈
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u/GraywarenGrim 3h ago
Happy pride! Audhd Queer transmasc a spec abro non binary cryptid here. Sending solidarity and happy flaps! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤜🤛♾️👾🐈⬛
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u/ye_old_hermit Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me 3h ago
Corporate profits were boosted by 13% today! Good job!
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u/warholean-fluxusian ASD Level 2 | Verbal 4h ago
I really hate the q slur, but thanks, I guess.
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u/Business-Block-8668 ASD Level 1 | Verbal 4h ago
I didn’t mean to offend anyone. Lots of people in the community have reclaimed the word “queer.” I don’t mean any harm by it.
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u/Lotuselise230 3h ago
You’re fine. You’re allowed to use the word queer. If you were straight and calling people “queers,” it would be a different story. But you’re using it in a loving way from within the community. You don’t need to feel bad about that.
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u/warholean-fluxusian ASD Level 2 | Verbal 4h ago
And I'm offended by it, because it was used against me and my elder lesbian and gay sisters and brothers. Qu£€r means weird. Nothing weird about my or anyone elses homosexuality.
I will never understand reclaiming slurs. Our battle is lost, though.
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u/Business-Block-8668 ASD Level 1 | Verbal 4h ago
I am sorry you and your family experienced that. I genuinely am. It’s not cool for people to discriminate you.
I genuinely don’t mean to offend anyone. Lots of people in this sub use the term “queer.” But it’s also valid for people to not like the word. I will respect that.
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u/Justkeepbreathing123 4h ago
I’m solidly middle age and I use queer to refer to myself
If you don’t like it, don’t use it. I don’t love the word dyke and I don’t use it to refer to myself, but many of my friends use it to refer to themselves. I celebrate their freedom to identify and use whatever terms that they want to. It’s ok that you don’t understand everything; no one does
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u/warholean-fluxusian ASD Level 2 | Verbal 4h ago
Would you like to hear your mother say "shoot the qu£€rs" just as you started discovering yourself as a tween?
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u/TheDarkBrotherhood7 4h ago
You just ignored everything they said… if it upset you, why are you still using it? The term has been used within lgbtq+ spaces for decades, because the word itself is not inherently offensive, it’s how it’s used. If you’re upset by the use of it, why are you continuing to use it yourself, and continuing to reply? If you don’t understand reclaiming and don’t want to, then don’t. Simply as
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u/Justkeepbreathing123 4h ago
Nope and I would need therapy to resolve the issues that left behind so that I didn’t trample on other people’s joy because of my pain
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u/warholean-fluxusian ASD Level 2 | Verbal 4h ago
A slur will never be a thing of joy while it's being used on people in a way that's harmful. I bet you like the r-word too because you're quirky and autistic.
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u/Business-Block-8668 ASD Level 1 | Verbal 4h ago
Okay you’re going too far now. No one is treating autism as a “quirk.” You’re weird for assuming that about the person you’re replying to.
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u/Hello_h0lo 3h ago
That was too far.. you don't like the word queer because it was used against you, and now you're using their autism against them? Don't do the same thing that was done to you.
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u/CREATURE_COOMER ASD Level 1 | Verbal 2h ago
Bigots also talk about hating and/or harming "the gays," or "homosexuals," or even racial terms like "the Blacks," (rather than Black people), they'll turn anything into a derogatory term.
One of many reasons why I love The Nightmare Before Christmas is because of its positive use as "queer" (odd/unusual/peculiar, not gay/LGBTQ) in the song What's This:
"Oh, look, what's this?
They're hanging mistletoe
They kiss? Why, that looks so unique
Inspired! They're gathering around to hear a story
Roasting chestnuts on a fire, what's this?
What's this in here? They've got a little tree
How queer! And who would ever think?
And why? They're covering it with tiny little things
They've got electric lights on strings
And there's a smile on everyone, so now correct me if I'm wrong
This looks like fun, this looks like fun
Oh, could it be I got my wish? What's this?"
I like the idea of Jack Skellington seeing pride parades, drag shows, etc and thinking that we're interesting and exciting and new.
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u/Lotuselise230 3h ago edited 3h ago
If that word doesn’t apply to you, then it’s not directed at you. Meanwhile, it is the way a lot of people identify, and it was our word before it was used as a slur, so I’m gonna stick with it. No one has to reclaim slurs, but people within the community are allowed to reclaim them. And it’s obviously not being used as a slur here. You can simply scroll past things that don’t apply to you.
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u/storm-waltz ASD Level 1/2 | Verbal 55m ago
I don't like being called the q-slur either and I don't love that it's used as a catch-all, but it sounds like your own trauma is causing you to lash out at someone making a good faith post about pride month. It's very unfair to OP to be nasty about it because it hurts you - it's not like they DM'd you specifically to call you that term. It's a reddit post. Words and vocabulary evolve wether we like it or not and the q-slur is used as a collective for the LGBT community a lot, not as a slur but as a quick easy way to address a community. Is it really worth it to argue about it?
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u/Business-Block-8668 ASD Level 1 | Verbal 4h ago
I have no idea what this photos means but I am going to assume it’s positive lol
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u/Sammythehindu AuDHD 4h ago
I'm sorry but no, they're being ableist. I look into their comments history.
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u/Ral_Ga_Thun 13m ago
Happy pride friend, first year for me having realised im non-binary, is nice :3
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