Are Autistic People Rude? Or Are We Just Living in a World That Wasn't Built for Us

Have you ever been called rude, and known, somewhere underneath the confusion, that you were just being honest? In this episode, we sit with one of the most loaded labels autistic adults carry. Not to defend ourselves from it. But to understand what it actually means when directness gets read as aggression, honesty gets read as disrespect, and not performing warmth in the expected way gets mistaken for not caring.

We talk about the double empathy problem — the research-backed idea that miscommunication goes both ways — and what it actually costs autistic people to keep absorbing the "rude" label without questioning it. This isn't about convincing anyone you're a good person. It's about understanding why the world reaches for that word so fast, and what you're allowed to stop apologising for.

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