Being autistic myself, and having a history as a radical LGBTQ activist in the 1990s, I recognize so much of your narrative.

And something occurs to me …

I don’t need to speculate publicly about specific people, but if several prominent Act Up and Queer Nation leaders were not neuro-divergent, I’ll my hat.

In a way, radical activism is about rejecting normal. And who better to do that than people who can never fit into normal in the first place?

There has always been a tension in queer communities between a spirit of assimilation and one of radical acceptance. And when we think about autistic people in the movement, it’s not hard to see what side they’ve tended to be on.