★ the saltmaster extraordinaire

At first I wanted to write up a title referring to the meat of this post (ableism, the endless infantilization of neurodivergent women by individuals who view themselves as progressive), but I decided to be both sharper and more tongue-in-cheek about it. Because if there's a trend I've noticed in the last fifteen years or so, it's that the people most likely to do what I outlined above are the ones who also bandy about the word "gross" as if it's going out of style. There's a dark connection between ableism and responses rooted wholly in knee-jerk discomfort that never get questioned or challenged.

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