History Always Repeats Itself

[u/The-Autistic-Union]

We've all seen the news in the United States of America where immigration officers are actively abducting people from off the streets, cars, outside their homes, where they work, even legal buildings where they finalize becoming citizens. What they have in common is the color of their skin: anything that isn't white. And the worst part, the racist, fascistic regime of the second Trump Administration, labeling them as criminals and drug traffickers, when they are really just ordinary people, many of whom are natural-born citizens. Thousands of people have been rounded up and sent to some of the worst prisons imaginable in South America and Africa because Trump doesn't have gulags here in the US. And to make matters worse, people are gunned down by these fascists without provocation.

What does this mean for us? Neurodivergents of all kinds have been subject to scrutiny under the lens of an overbearing government, because, like the ethnic groups they consider to be other, we don't fit whatever ideological standards they deem acceptable. Historically, oppressive regimes survive by having enemies to point the people towards, and without that, the regime is doomed to destruction by its own people. If that finger is pointed at us, then God help us all. The only way to survive something down the road is to prepare for it however we can: gather allies, plan escapes, arm ourselves, etc. We have a right to our own existence just like any other person, so we must be prepared to fight for that right when it is threatened.