Do you know you’ve offended someone until you know you have offended someone?

Blind spots of the Double Empathy Problem are everywhere. We are constantly expected to know the unknowable. To know things even non-autistic people don’t know. Like a sick and twisted hindsight. Your should’ve just magically known.

Bull.

It’s their way to scapegoat us for one reason or another. Once we learn, there’s no going back. For some, there’s no forgiveness to offer.

I’ve lost the better part of my life. My 20s and 30s. I asked for help. No one gave it. Now, almost at 43, I’m stranded in life still living at home.

Blame, it seems, is now furthest from my priority the top being survival. But abandonment will never leave my mind..