A woman’s “autistic sense of justice” has been reported missing after it failed to appear when it was time to talk about racism in the autistic community, sources have said.
Beth Hapworth, 26, uses her online platform to advocate for “all autistic people”, in the way that “all” sometimes means “white”. Her autistic sense of justice never strays far from her side, but was suspiciously absent when Hapworth was accused of being racially insensitive, leading many to believe it had wandered off.
Hapworth, however, does not believe her faithful sense of justice has truly left her behind. She said: “I consider myself a voice for all autistic people – mainly because I’m really good at talking over them. But I just don’t know enough about this particular issue to comment on it, and thinking about race triggers my sensory issues, so my sense of justice is probably just hiding under a car somewhere until it’s safe to come out again.”
“As soon as my autistic sense of justice smells a bit of lukewarm discourse that applies to me and costs me nothing to speak out on, it’ll come bounding back.”
“My autistic sense of justice is very obedient,” Hapworth added. “Its favourite trick is called ‘listening, learning and trying to do better’. It goes in a big circle and comes out having heard nothing, learnt nothing and done nothing.”
Hapworth’s autistic sense of justice finally came out of hiding when it heard the sound of a tearful apology video.
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