i will be autistic for a moment but living in a world where social expectations and standards are made by others and expected to be followed lest you be seen as a ‘failed’ person somehow when those standards are not based in personal happiness or autonomy or kindness to others makes me feel genuinely insane like daily
'we made up a game and made up all the rules before you got here and btw these things are not even physically or emotionally healthy for you and they don’t actually benefit communication between us and we all don’t even like doing it but if you don’t play and don’t follow them you lose. what do you win? oh nothing you just don’t get socially isolated and treated like a freak of nature. also we grew up doing it so you have to now too it’s only fair. also if you question any of it you will either get treated stupid or like the killer of everything good and sacred’