autisticliving:

Here’s a shoutout the autistic people whose special interests aren’t math or technology or science or anything else that they can realistically make a career of. 

Here’s to the autistic people whose special interests aren’t considered useful or intelligent. Here’s to the autistic people whose special interests are considered a waste of time by the people around them.

Here’s to the autistic people who know everything there is to know about the universe and characters in their favorite book but who can’t remember all the things they’re supposed to remember when they sit down to their homework.

Here’s to the autistic people whose special interest is something that so many people like and enjoy that it is becoming trendy to hate it, to the people who are told that they are superficial and dumb and shallow for liking that band or that tv series so much.

Here’s to the autistic people whose special interests are so obscure that nobody knows what they’re talking about.

Here’s to the autistic people who has special interests in things that many people look down on and make fun of. Here’s to the autistic people who have new acquaintances look down on them when they discover that they’re one of those people who are really into that.

Here’s to the autistic people whose special interests are considered creepy and problematic, to the autistic people who are being told that they are creepy or bad for having a certain special interest.

Here’s to the autistic people who has special interests in things that are marketed towards children, to the autistic people who are repeatedly told that they shouldn’t be into their special interests and that they should grow out of it soon.

Your special interest doesn’t have to be useful to have worth. Your special interest doesn’t have to be something you can make a job out of to be worth your time. Your special interests brings you joy and thus it is amazing and that is regardless of what it is.