Tim Barrus and the New York Times

A Dialogue

You hate us. We are not all alike. Life is mainly making widgets. The neurodiverse are exactly that. Diverse.

No one makes widgets like we do. Some of us can wear the mask on and off. I never take it off if Normals are around. Normals love making assumptions. I loved fucking Normal guys. It always hurts. Don’t speak.

Better bring the check around.

“He has his own job bagging groceries, but he’s still living in his mom’s basement.”

This is cultural abuse. Another stereotype. We’re lucky if we are allowed to push a broom. “Here’s your broom, now sweep, sweep. And I assure you, we are worth more than the brooms you hand us. Tens of thousands of us work hard. Most of you get off work, go home, and jerk off. You need us. From brooms to the Federal Reserve.

If I was your boyfriend.

The mask can be a heavy, grim thing to wear. But we do it to survive. Because if we do not, you hate us, You hate us anyway. Like an old dog with anything different. Dirty low down. Stop fucking us. Usually, I walk away when I am done with a homo sapiens. Who gives a violent fuck what they think. Just get those juices pumping, Tim.

My second self has provocative opinions. The New York Times hates my vile guts. I am not nice to them and they are terrible humanoids.

I want something just like this.

We listen to the experts tell us what reality is, the experts publish books about us as victims in a spectrum. Let us away to an author’s tour. All of us are 20 million times more competent than the Normals. What we bring to the table is enormous. The tone here is something I hear every day.

“They can be good employees but they need help.” Help is not what middle managers in HR want to hear. Help is not what business wants to hear. Help is not what the local bakery wants to hear. Help absolutely and most definitely is not what school districts want to hear. Life is making widgets. Work hard. Harder. Harder. Faster, faster. Take work home. Always arrive early. Never ask for a raise. Employment discrimination – laws or no laws – is ubiquitous. Often, the only reason they hire us is to avoid lawsuits and expensive judgements. A bit bigger than Microsoft.

I have a job. The coyotes are dying from the heat. We are lugging water in a truck. It’s more important than your sweet microsoft cock.