I frequently hear from neurotypicals that we autistics should repress all of our "abnormal" behavior, even when we're totally alone. Why? Because it bothers them not only to see us being different, but to merely know that we're continuing to be different when we're not in front of them.

Meanwhile:
1) The NT kids in the neighborhood, are all being ridiculously noisy. If I stay in my room, I can hear the ones in front running around screaming, singing at the top of their lungs, or just generally shouting. If I go to the back of the house so I can't hear them, the child-shrieks from the swimming pool start to get to me instead.

2) There's an NT down the street that keeps inviting his friends over (I guess) to take turns on his gas-powered skateboard thing up and down the street every afternoon. That means, from 11am - 6pm, there is a *very* loud chainsaw-type buzzing noise ascending and descending in pitch every few minutes as they go past my house.

Both noises totally stress me out by driving easily-overloaded hyper-sensitive hearing nuts, so I keep having to go hang out at either the local Starbucks or the closest Borders (a half-hour's drive away) just to marginally relax. That is, I can relax if some jerk doesn't bring in noisy brats to drive all the adult clientele away. Which, of course, is exactly what usually happens on weekends.

Yet the autistics that do so much as chafe their hands are told to get intense therapy and medicate themselves so WE won't bother anybody. Fuck that.