Acceptance...works both ways.

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The nationalist "you can do what you want in your region, we control ours" message.

I don't consider most NTs to be shallow brainless twits. That is not a fact.

I have noticed that some autistic people talk about how knowledgeable they are on Topic XYZ and compare their intellectual strengths to a stereotype of most NTs as shallow brainless twits.

Before my daughter was diagnosed, I was certainly ignorant. But it didn't make me a bad person. I am very thankful that the first group of autistics that I interacted with shared your same view, Sweetleaf. They let me ask my ignorant questions, and patiently supplied me with the information I needed. They worked under the presumption that at heart I was a good person who wanted to do right by my daughter, but just had misguided information. They assumed that, as a good person, once I was given enlightened information, my ignorance would cease.

Imagine if they would have viewed me with contempt and chastised me for my ignorance and repeatedly proclaimed how superior they were to me?

How would I have ever learned the truth?

And if I never learned the truth, what would have happened to my daughter?

Responding to ignorance and arrogance with ignorance and arrogance is a lose-lose proposition.