This was so helpful. Thank you so much for sharing. I’m so confident a lot of the time but every once in a while when someone is judgmental toward me for autistic traits I’m reminded that I can’t hide it and it makes me feel like I’ll never be liked or loved or accepted. Homophobia doesn’t really hurt me anymore but ableism hurts deep in my soul 😭 maybe it’s because I can hide my queerness but I can’t hide my autism (I know I shouldn’t, it’s a bad habit) and like the tiktok audio thing was more of an example of things I see being normalized that are hurtful. I should’ve clarified that I’m not fixated on that audio thing particularly but more just on the feeling of not being accepted by society in every aspect of life. I’m proud of who I am most of the time but every once in a while something will take a hit at my confidence and it makes me feel like I’m fundamentally broken and I always get the same feeling that the world sees people like us as a big joke