Do people know that you are on the spectrum?

[Forest Cat]

Are mountain trolls ridden bareback, or do they have special saddles?

lol No saddles, you can`t get a saddle on a troll, you just hold on to something and hope you will survive.

 

[Fino]

Yes, I know that. And I think that's utterly repulsive, and damaging, to tell people just because they aren't heterosexual/heteronormative, they shouldn't do the same thing that heterosexual/heteronormative people do under the same circumstances. It's discrimination, and it's abusive to tell people these things, and to say things like, "Sex isn't OK if you aren't heteronormative, you must abstain" and to paint it as immoral etc, just because you think that yourself, or your group thinks that, and you can't let other people be themselves when they're not the same as you (or some arbitrary "standard").

In enlightened countries the legislation is being put in to protect people with such differences from people and institutions who like to tell other people how they should live. Australia voted for marriage equality half a decade ago, finally.

You wouldn't believe how many podcasts I've listened to with LGBTIQ people from fundamentalist religious backgrounds telling their stories, and their unnecessarily complicated and painful journeys to coming out. And some who were convinced that they could be "healed" from their sexual orientation, and actually got married to an opposite-sex partner, and then after a while they realise they still are who they are and now it's unnecessarily causing pain for their partner as well.

Instead of listening to the dogmas of organised religions, I suggest people actually listen to people and their own stories - including people who are different from us, and understand what they are talking about, instead of thinking that we know what's best for someone else.

Allowing gay marriage is not actually marriage equality. All people can marry a person of the opposite sex. Anyone can. That's equality.

 

[Callistemon]

We will have to agree to completely disagree about that one, @Fino. Might as well say, in the days that interracial or inter-religious marriages were frowned upon, that every Catholic is free to marry another Catholic, and every Protestant another Protestant, or every white another white, and every black another black, but no Catholic should marry a Protestant, nor a black person a white because that's just not done, and that's "equality" - when really it's not. Marriage equality is to be able to marry the person you love and want to commit to, no matter their religion, ethnicity, cultural background, gender, social class etc.

 

[aspie1w]

Nobody knows i have told to a friend or 2 and they did not believed,at all