Oversharing And Being The Unrepentant Truth Teller

My autistic honesty ostracized me and frequently got me scapegoated

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Just now

I have always overshared. I cannot stay silent, no matter how much my family of origin or anyone else has tried to silence me or undermine my sense of agency.

Therefore, no matter how much the world wants me to stay quiet and not share my experience of being autistic, I will not stop.

When I talk intensely about my life and things I find interesting, I don’t like to call it oversharing.

I am just sharing with someone with whom I am speaking. I am acknowledging them as an equal human being, but neurotypicals don’t see it that way.

They find me too intense. Too intimate. Too everything. They do not like that I don’t notice or perhaps more accurately, care about their hierarchies.

No matter how dangerous it is to address some topics in this political climate, I am finding it difficult to stay quiet.

I don’t know if my oversharing, vulnerability, and truth-telling are a gift or a curse. My mouth and tendency to, at best, speak frankly and at worst, have no filter, often get me into serious hot water.