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I think I need to rant for a minute. If you don't want to hear me complain than just ignore this. So I happen to be a person with autism and I hate when people make into a joke. I also hate it when people say "You don't look autistic." or "You don't act autistic.". Jokes make the thing people assume about it even worse. Like seriously people who know nothing about autism see a video of someone having a meltdown or shutdown(which are horrible to experience by the way) and hearing the jokes make them automatically assume that's all autism is. Also just because I'm not the best at eye contact doesn't mean I'm not listening or paying attention. I just don't like the way it makes me and that would distract me from what the person I'm listening to is saying. It's also isn't funny that just about ever person with autism that know about autism speaks hate them with a burning passion. They make autism this big scary monster that will steal your kid, put you in debt and ruin your marriage (all things they've said or implied). Even in a documentary they put out they had a point in it where a mother of an autistic child said that at one point she thought of driving her and her child into a lake because her daughter had autism! I actually got lucky that I have a mother who at least somewhat understand autism. She may get annoyed with me stimming (which I can't really help) but at least she understands that I'm not stupid or defective. She never forced me to try to befriend people my age when most other adults did (it is not pleasant to be forced near someone you want absolutely nothing to do with), she enabled each of the special interests that I have had over the years, and she understood that I don't do well with certain things like sirens or certain materials. I'm lucky but they're a bunch who aren't. There are people who refuse their child is anything but normal. That their child has a different view the world. There're even people in my own family that refuse to acknowledge that I'm autistic or my cousin has ADHD(her parents have barely acknowledged such and at one point called ME a bad influence and now want her to be more like me). Anyway you can imagine those jokes DO NOT HELP THE MISINFORMATION. I think I'm done now so sorry again for wasting your time just needed to get that out of my system and thought you guys should know a little bit more about your author. I don't mind questions if you have any of them as long as they're not intentionally rude.