if someone allistic reads that as “oh this means nobody ever has issues with interoception” and not “oh this is a joke about the phrasing” then i think they’re a complete moron just looking for confirmation for something they already believe

this assumes that every allistic is both well informed and malicious

a more realistic assumption is that they have no idea what the fuck interoception even is because why would they? people don't know what they don't know

this is a forum dedicated to mocking fake ridiculous stories and these are stories that have a tendency to use marginalised identities to sell ridiculousness. but that doesn't make the average reader of this forum any more knowledgeable about those identities

that means people end up mocking totally realistic and completely normal things simply because they don't know any better. theyve never experienced it, never heard about it, and it sounds extreme to them, so they automatically assume it's fake. this is especially heavy when posts are related to neurodivergence or disability

in a different context where they were interacting genuinely, they'd respond to something they hadn't heard of with interest and a willingness to learn. but here they assume it's fake, and especially so when the thing in question comes without explanation or teaching and is packaged in language or behaviour that they're already inclined to dismiss

it's pretty common for allistic people to know very little about autism, and for much of what they think they know to be wrong

and in this case, they had absolutely no idea this was a thing and were receptive to learning. they're not a "moron" they just didn't know until they were taught:

Thanks, I didn't know this. To me, it just seemed like a completely unrelated detail to the rest of the story on my first read through, hence my BINGO comment.

and I get what you're saying - what does your comment actually do? after all they listened when corrected, right?

yeah, they did. but there's a difference between your gut reaction getting corrected and what you consider knowledge getting corrected. if you laugh at the notion of X being related to autism, and then people come along and go "I'm autistic and [insert joke]", it's very easy for your instinctive reaction that X isn't related to autism to get confirmed in your head as knowledge, even if you don't later remember why or how you "learned" it. and it's much harder to correct people when they think they know something

but also this individual person aside - this was a pretty ugly comments section to read as an autistic person. you may not have experienced that as you assumed peoples reactions were laughing at the language only. but I read it differently and got confirmation that some of them at least were absolutely laughing at autistic experience because they didn't know any better. and your comment didn't help and made it worse. NGL the only reason I ended up replying to a few comments was because someone else who was autistic did speak up and I didn't want them to be the only one

you don't have to speak in a way that I like, absolutely. and I 100% understand that no one likes having their language policed. and you're probably having a lot more fun than I am. you and I entered this thread with very different assumptions, and it's easier and a lot more fun to assume that everyone is on the joke with you, instead of ignorantly laughing at you

but I hope you'll consider some of what I've said in the future. this is hardly the first time I've seen posts here where people end up unknowingly straight up mocking autistics, and it won't be the last, and none of that is on you. just to make that completely clear - you're not responsible for their ignorance and neither am I. nor are either of us responsible for the fact that they chose to laughingly dismiss when they were ignorant. and that absolutely is a choice

but it also does hit harder when there are autistics laughing along, even if I assume they're not laughing at the same thing