Even other neurodivergent people will enable behaviors that trigger RSD, maybe because it doesn’t hurt them as bad, or they’ve learned to cope with it better, or whatever. But anyway, we aren’t approaching the problem of RSD radically enough. We have to change the way we communicate with people on a fundamental level. Anti-ableism isnt just about not using certain naughty words. For neurodivergent people to be safe in society, it requires a completely radical rewiring of how communication works. I don’t know how that will work exactly. I understand that sometimes it causes problems with intersectionality (though I think the way people just throw the anti-ableism side of that discussion out the window completely is fucking disgusting, again this is something that even neurodivergent people will do, because intersection is complicated and people don’t like complicated things so they jump to one side or the other and for some reason ableism always loses out in those clashses) but I still think its incredibly important.
I’m no expert, but its always seemed like to me that having an open line of communication where those issues can be expressed without judgement is the simplest way to negate the social effects of stuff caused by neurodivirgency. Shut up and listen to the people to find out what needs to be done, I guess.
