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I often forget that being autistic still isn't fully accepted or even considered normal in 90% of the world. For example, I was having a conversation in the car and my mom saw a man standing on the side of the road staring at a bush. She pointed it out as if the man was insane or intoxicated and laughed, but I didn't understand why. He didn't seem to be hurting anyone, he was just looking at a bush. Maybe it was interesting or there was a bug on it. Maybe he has a special interest in botany or landscaping. I tried to think of it as a neurotypical might and I think it was the fact he was just standing, staring at a bush on the sidewalk that made her think that and that forced me to realize how many people think the same things about me. Why do neurotypicals find neurodivergent folks so funny? What is it that amuses them about someone who is simply not what they are used to? Why do they need to be so thoughtlessly mean?