I find that I dislike what passes for ‘autistic satire’.
The way I have seen humans treat satire as evidence, not evisceration tells me that ‘not getting it’ in this time is potentially dangerous rather than effective protest or reclaiming of our culture and being. Indeed, to me, it seems satire’s day as an effective influence is passing.
I get satire. I enjoy satire. It bothers me that so many people take it literally when it is so clearly hoisting its chosen concept, context, and/or connotation upon a petard.
The irony of an autistic human understanding satire better than most of their neurotypical and neuronormative peers does not escape me for one moment.
I’m thinking about this today as a result of having a conversation with someone in the neurodivergent community about an online site that satirizes autistic humans, life, culture, and of course, neuronormative bias. But, as many outlets for satire do, I think they miss the greater edge of the form by upholding favorite neuronormative tropes and a maintaining a historically eugenic premise through the entirety of their discourse around both autism and neurodivergent lived experience.
Very little seems ‘funny’ to me in a day and time when people in government are talking about cutting our access to required prescriptions for maintaining our balance and well-being, putting us into ‘work camps’ and such.