The answer is a hard NO.

If it takes centuries or decade for civil rights 50 to 100 years on average; well then by that logic the next in line after women’s rights (now in doubt thanks to SCOTUS); people with physical handicaps will probably have “their time”. While some frown upon saying there shouldn’t be this “time” for say the dark skin population, or women or LGBTQ, etc. I will say this, “autism” is continuously being ignored; it hasn’t gotten past the basic awareness or tolerance, so for all those #ActuallyAutistic types who just bully typical people into compliance of accepting their autism, don’t hold your breath.

“Our” day of acceptance will never happen. There are multiple parties to have some accountability, but no one is willing to take-it, and so as a result; the only recommendation I would say is to just not speak out because it will just further fan the flames.

No one is looking out for my group, and I can’t keep waiting for acceptance organizations to come online and help my group. I’ve taken the radical acceptance that because solely that I am a male plus having an “invisible disability” that it’s best to just be an also ran broken-male and continue into my little world of newsgathering with minifigures and do some tech-stuff here and there.

I don’t see the dream selfie of me and someone important that gets-my-group. Some stereotypical selfie that makes both of us empowered.  It will go to the younger person who has it and they’ll have all the social capital, and it will be the one whose more “visibly” disabled.

For those, consider yourself lucky. I am high functioning and yet I am broken and had a tragic upbringing…I must be so rare. Oh wait, I do feel that, and it must be all my fault because apparently I chose to be rare, I chose to be autistic, I chose [to appear] to be an asshole. Apparently it’s all a choice. 

I’ll chose to stay silent.