"Because there is comfort in knowing you are a normal zebra, not a strange horse. Because you can't find community with other zebras if you don't know you belong. And because it is impossible for a zebra to be happy or healthy spending its life feeling like a failed horse.”
q: @omgimautisticaf
Learning the “why” didn’t change me, but finding a community of others like me who I can share things with and learn from has been helpful.
I choose to look of it less as taxonomy like horse vs. zebra, and more like data/story tagging, where you can keep adding more tags to get more specific. Sure, not everyone with the same tag will be IDENTICAL, but a lot of your experiences will rhyme with one another, and the more tags you share, the more rhymes you'll find.
I share a lot of Autistic folks. I share a lot with ADHD folks. But I share even MORE with AuDHD folks. Then I share even more than that with trans AuDHD folks. And even more than that with ... etc. etc.
Sometimes it ends up that yeah, I'm an outlier within one specific tag, but when I find people with more tags in common, it's weird how many things in our brains rhyme...
@JessTheUnstill@Schnuckster@autism101@actuallyautistic
Wow beautiful insight! It seems it’s all relative. I have a rough time trying to figure out myself and how I work though. There’s infinite combinations and that makes us different. But finding the familiar when your used to things that don’t make sense is a godsend. In my perspective. ♾️❤️
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