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The understanding that’s lacking is that autistic people are already, just by being alive in this world, close to their natural limit of stress – their ceiling of tolerance. We exist just beneath that line, all of the time, whereas non-autistics, for the most part, spend their lives way beneath it, barely even aware that there’s a line, until something dreadful happens and you suddenly find yourself crossing it. Our lives are the line, and thus we cross it frequently. This, I believe, is why there’s so rarely any compassion or care shown to autistic people in meltdown: we’re not seen to
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