content: Autistic is socially defective, not mentally defective.  That's a bit like calling all persons in wheelchairs "retarded" - because there was that one time where you saw a retard in a wheelchair - anyways, to continue to think it would be untrue and it is limiting future interaction for both you and that hypothetical person.  It's ironic and humorous to me that humans who have been socially ostracized to the point of visiting Voat regularly cannot comprehend that maybe we all have something in common, but hey, we're all on a journey here, I get it. If you're feeling really alone, you're probably autistic.  And autistic people are all without identity, so we become our work.  Look for similarities, not differences, stranger.  I think reality is far more complicated than I can normally see it, and I'm beginning to realize the full impact of how big of a fucking idiot I have been.