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minus-squarecassie 🐺@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 hours agophobia of neurodivergent people as well, I think. A lot of the things people find weird and offputting are just like… autism or something.
minus-squareBallsandBayonets@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 hours agoI’m autistic and an LGBT ally and I still find furries off-putting. I try not to judge, but in general I treat them like street proselytizers and the mentally unwell homeless: don’t make eye contact and keep out of smelling range.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·20 hours agoIt certainly feels that way sometimes. “I can’t say the other F-word, so I’ll call you a furry.”
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-220 hours agoNot quite, I mean more in the way any pejorative they’d use against a furry, that person thinks about queer people.
It’s a proxy for queerphobia.
phobia of neurodivergent people as well, I think. A lot of the things people find weird and offputting are just like… autism or something.
I’m autistic and an LGBT ally and I still find furries off-putting. I try not to judge, but in general I treat them like street proselytizers and the mentally unwell homeless: don’t make eye contact and keep out of smelling range.
It certainly feels that way sometimes. “I can’t say the other F-word, so I’ll call you a furry.”
Not quite, I mean more in the way any pejorative they’d use against a furry, that person thinks about queer people.