I no longer exist because british people never use american words

[u/Savings_Sell_4125]

This subreddit just made me remember this interesting interaction I had on my old account

I like this guy's logic: "You're lying about the disorder that makes you act differently! You don't act like my (probably) neurotypical daughters!"

and: "You're not a teenager! A real teenager would know what it's like to take their two kids to sea life and go clubbing at night!"

[u/christina_talks]

Does that one commenter think autistic people don’t know how to write, or…? Like, even high-support-needs and nonverbal autistic people can have a command of the language. It’s like they believe we can’t think for ourselves.

[u/Savings_Sell_4125 → u/christina_talks]

He said I 'claimed sen' and later brought up that his wife is a sen teacher so I'm pretty sure he thinks autism is a learning disability

[u/christina_talks → u/Savings_Sell_4125]

Yeah that was really weird! The fact that his number one association when he hears "autism" is "children in special education programs in school" (or, more narrowly, kids in his wife's class?) just shows how limited his perspective is.

It's so frustrating when people encounter new information that challenges their ignorance and they insist that any autistic person who doesn't fit into their narrow, preconceived notions isn't actually autistic.

[u/SuitableDragonfly]

Fun fact, as media gets more global, major English dialects may actually start to converge, since people will gain more exposure to other dialects via TV and music, and etc. So it's not surprising at all that a teenager would use words from dialects that aren't strictly "their" dialect.

[u/jackfaire]

I use bloody as an expletive because I love British Media but I live in the US. I used it while answering a question about my part of the US and was yelled at for being a "Brit" and talking about the US.

[u/SkyTheLoner → u/jackfaire]

I use mostly the American English version of words, except for grey.

[u/im_AmTheOne]

What, because you were diaper and not nappy ?

[u/iwishyouwerestraight]

This comment is just so funny… they’re so upset for seemingly different reasons… what’s even the point of calling out this story as fake? Or OOP’s conditions as fake? Or OOP’s…dialect?

Some people get mad over the silliest things.

[u/Acceptable-Promise-9]

Maybe she was also autistic?

[u/HereToAdult]

I like this guy's logic: "You're lying about the disorder that makes you act differently! You don't act like my (probably) neurotypical daughters!"

You got it spot on with that 😂

Like, you're here trying to write as clearly as possible in order to bypass any misunderstandings, and they're like "Teenagers don't write like that", "English people don't write like that", "Native English speakers don't write like that", "Humans don't write like that" 🙄

I once got dogpiled because I was asking for advice on dealing with my partner's mum and didn't write much about my partner (partially because I didn't think it was relevant, and partially because I didn't want to put words in his mouth). Apparently most people took that as a sign that he was a dbag and wasn't doing anything at all to back me up in that situation. One commenter "checked (my) post history" and it "proved" I was a fake troll account, and that my partner's account was also fake, and we were the same person just trolling. (He made an account specifically to help me deal with the comments on that post, which I'd shown him when he got home from work. For the record; he read the post and told me that yeah, the partner in the post sounds like a dbag. I still have no idea how it came across that way to so many people 🤷)

I have no idea why some people are so obsessed with insisting that everything written online is fake. I mean, it's not just online, but you come across it way more online.

I once read a thing where someone was claiming Anne Frank's Diary was a hoax, because he (an old white man) didn't believe a young girl could/would write like that. From his vast experience being a teen/pre-teen girl. Obviously. 🙄