Really helpful info, and great points about ableism.
TW/Content note: Abuse of autistic people; demonstrative use of disability slur; self-injury; in-depth descriptions of being in the middle of a meltdown.
UPDATE: The article on The Mighty that led to this post has been taken down.
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The Bingo Sheet meme has existed as a way for marginalized communities to catalog and make fun of the bad things they experience. This usually takes the form of quoting common hurtful, invalidating or dismissive things they hear from other people. For instance, there is American Racial Incident Bingo for the ways in which white people respond badly to instances of violence against people of color, and Fat Hatred Bingo for the ways the concern trolls and other people justify bias against fat people.
So, given this context, the autistic community was none too happy when an online disability publication called The Mighty published a Meltdown Bingo… as written from the perspective of a…
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