To be a bit more clear. What I don’t like about that post is that it is written like a demand. The way its written, the way I read it it sounds like “go pay attention to that autistic person, pretend to be interested. Do your best to force yourself to be supportive, because if you don’t do it you are a jerk”. That’s what I get from that message. I don’t think it is a truly helpful message, I don’t think its a way to truly make people care about autistic people. Like many posts on this website it reads like some sort of social fear propaganda. Where people will read it and think “I don’t want to be seen as an asshole. I better do the nice thing its telling me to”.

 Its a good idea behind it because people do tend to shy away from people with autism spectrum disorders who show they’re symptoms very clearly. And that feels really terrible. It’d be great to break that. But it shouldn’t be done out of fear or obligation, which is what that post puts out.