Competitive Masking: two autistic people try their hardest to roleplay neurotypical office, service and retail workers at eachother until one of them shows symptoms
I had always assumed this was some extremist Christian book for kids. Turns out this is actually by a gay comic artist named Howard Cruse who passed away in 2019. This is from a 1980 short story called “Billy Goes Out” which tells the story of a man named Billy who is trying to move on with life after his partner’s untimely passing. It highlights a lot of the struggles of the LGBT community at the time. This particular frame is him remembering how he blamed himself being gay when bad things happened to him as a child.
this isn’t a call to bully anyone btw like if youve never been bullied good for you! i hope you’ll never experience it bc it is truly awful and i wouldnt wish that on anyone. the point is though like…… so many of u ppl just casually talk about bullying as if it’s something minor that happens instead of sth that literally traumatizes u and leaves u with lasting hang-ups later on in life.
like, even if you weren’t fully aware of being bullied (im autistic, i didn’t pick up on it until way later and realized that like. all my “normal” experiences were actually rly fucked up lol) it still makes you wary of interacting with others and still makes you flinch when people approach etc
“bring back bullying” it never fucking left you dipshits just want an excuse to be cruel to people you deem Other
girls live in a world where they are forced to work and there is no time to read every second of the day and a beverage does not cost one dollar. and they wonder why we’re insane
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