It's actually a really wholesome story, he loved collecting bugs as a kid, but with urban development that became more difficult, so he wanted something for kids to recreate that feeling for him.
It's actually a really wholesome story, he loved collecting bugs as a kid, but with urban development that became more difficult, so he wanted something for kids to recreate that feeling for him.
Half the people who use the “autist” insult are people autistic themselves. Speaking as a dude where liken 75% of the men in my family are autistic and is probably on the spectrum myself (albeit very mildly so), a lot of autistic people don’t have much “solidarity” with the broader community and will mock the fuck out of people with worse cases than them. There’s a lot of “I’m not THAT kinda of autist, I’m the cool savant type” logic. I’ll even to confess to doing it myself sometimes largely because almost all the autistic dudes in my family are also massive CHUDs.
Having someone who is very very likely to be on the spectrum (but undiagnosed) look me in the eye and say "[something or other] is for autists, you know, r-------s" was very telling. This is a person who could have used some assistance (personal or professional) making it socially, but that sort of attitude caused them to quickly be isolated from the people who would be willing to help out.