What do you do with someone who hurt you because of your autistic behavior? It could be someone or even a group who bullied, gaslighted, or mobbed you in the past. What do you do if you meet them somewhere?

  • paultimate14@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    My advice is to envision what you want the future to be, and do what you need to do to make that happen.

    That can look like a lot of different things. Sometimes it’s having a hard and direct conversation. Sometimes it means employing subtlty: jokes, passing comments, body language, etc (all the more important to understand and purposefully engage in these skills when communicating with someone who is not autistic). Sometimes it means putting on a mask of civility. Sometimes cutting someone off entirely.

    Revenge in my experience is usually not satisfying.