How Abuse Mars the Lives of Autistic People
Many people with autism experience a triad of trauma: neglect at home, abuse from trusted adults and bullying at school or work.
A well-sourced and compassionate review of the abuse autistic people may often experience and its impact.
I was so confused for several seconds what the red planet had anything to do with this.
Yeah, same. English is not my primary language, so...
mars, verb
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Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mar.
mar, transitive verb
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To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.
To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.
To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
seeing it capitalized in the post title didn't help. 😆
I originally read it as a variant on marching like “how autistic people may silently march trough a life of abuse”
"They're bullying autistic people on Mars now??? Why????? Wtf can we not catch a bre– oh, yeah, I definitely read that wrong."
Same...
Yeah... I had to read that 5 times before I brained it correctly.
That's because society doesn't care about individuals.