The intersection of being neurodivergent and also queer.
Why are autistic people more likely to be called trolls by NTs?
Are autistic people more likely to be co...
Are autistic people more likely to be considered trolls by neurotypicals? Or am I alone in being labelled a troll? - This is the pattern I’ve noticed: Neurotypicals get uncomfortable with unfamiliar Autistic speech patterns, but they can’t explain why. (Sometimes this happens even if they know you’re Autistic - that’s NT compartmentalization for you.)
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I'd say it's more likely because autistic people don't instinctively learn and understand how to frame ideas in a way that NTs will understand, so we end up saying something that rubs people up the wrong way or makes no sense. That increases the chances that we will say something unintentionally upsetting or offensive.
And then NTs test the statements. Is this thing widely considered upsetting or offensive? If not, okay, let it go. But if it is widely considered upsetting or offensive, the reasoning goes like this:
TL;DR: We're more likely to accidentally say something that everyone else knows is upsetting/offensive, so people will be like "how can they not know this is offensive? it's so obvious, they MUST know", will therefore assume it's deliberate and malicious on our part, and will therefore conclude that we're trolling.