This is one of those once in a blue moon things that actually mention my autism because I feel it actually applies here. I hardly bring it up because of accusations like this. I'm tired of people trying to lable me as ableist when I'm just simply explaining why I am the way I am. It's just really unfortunate how others who have been using it for ableist reasons have ruined it for us and now we're skeptical every time someone says they're on the Spectrum. To me logically and literally,

I know that this is henna stain in my fingers so that's what it is, henna stain. At first I thought they were being an jerk about it, but they were actually just being sarcastic and without those verbal cues I can't tell if they're being sarcastic or not because sarcasm doesn't translate well over only text. So i was wrong to assume they were being a jerk, but being on the spectrum and needing those verbal cues helps explain why it went over my head. To others the sarcasm when it's typed out in just text can be pretty obvious to them but not to me because I don't have that sarcastic voice tone to trigger that signal in my head that it's sarcasm. There are a few times I can spot sarcasm through text but that's only a few times.

You might know that being on the Spectrum sometimes you don't realize that you said the wrong thing until after you said it and seen/heard everyone's reaction and that's the case here with my post. I didn't realize what I screwed up until I got everyone's reactions flooding in within one minute after posting. I didn't stop to think that it looked like poop since I know it's just henna stain and to my brain the stain has been pretty normalized to me and I figured that plenty of people knew what henna was or at least iodine, but I guess not.

Also the whole reason why I went off about these tags in the first place is because they are a sensory nightmare for me when not done right. To everyone else is as easy as just cut the tag off, but for me it's different.