• Boingboing_r@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Once asked a girl what the orange ribbon on her jacket signified. She said domestic violence. I asked for or against? Sometimes I should just not be allowed to speak.

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    6 days ago

    This greentext is fake and gay! (happy pride month btw)

    What really happened is that Anon misinterpreted the cashier’s facial expression because they are autistic. Upon hearing Anon‘s quirky statement, she actually replied:

    “I’m deeply sorry for not directly recognizing you as the CEO of Autism®, would you like to take a look at our selection of sandbox factory building and farming simulators? We also might still have a few copies of uhhh…Sonic??”

  • tomenzgg@midwest.social
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    7 days ago

    At one of my old jobs (which handled owning malls (I worked on the websites)), one of the locations would hold an event with Autism Speaks; during a meeting, someone mentioned that we needed to get the campaign advertisements on the site for one of their upcoming events.

    At the mention of “Autism Speaks”, I reflexively went, “Ew.” Only dawned on me, after the fact, that it probably looked to the rest of my coworkers like I was ridiculously immature about and ablist towards autistic people.