Via growing up autistic, this is one of the things I have been socialised into: if you make a decision based on your own internal sense of logic instead of what other people tell you is okay it will be horribly wrong and people will mock you and berate you for being stupid and say there is something wrong with you. Don't do it.
These days I am very careful to stay in my familiarity zone when out and about, to have back-up plans to deal with situations that can occur, to have people I can call and double-check things with, in order to as much as possible avoid getting into situations where I don't have a script. Because if I don't have a script to follow I *will* freeze.
I don't have a script for sexual harrassment. I know that if I am sexually harrassed I will freeze. This, you see, is the way society has damaged me.
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Via growing up autistic, this is one of the things I have been socialised into: if you make a decision based on your own internal sense of logic instead of what other people tell you is okay it will be horribly wrong and people will mock you and berate you for being stupid and say there is something wrong with you. Don't do it.
These days I am very careful to stay in my familiarity zone when out and about, to have back-up plans to deal with situations that can occur, to have people I can call and double-check things with, in order to as much as possible avoid getting into situations where I don't have a script. Because if I don't have a script to follow I *will* freeze.
I don't have a script for sexual harrassment. I know that if I am sexually harrassed I will freeze. This, you see, is the way society has damaged me.
And if you think that makes me weak, FUCK YOU.