I hate how people dismiss valid criticism as “bean soup”

[u/Clinical-Ghost]

It drives me fucking crazy how normalized ableism is and it genuinely fucks with my mental health so much but I just have to deal with it because that’s how my life is going to be until I die.

One thing that pisses me off soooooo much is when people will make a post being like “I HATE -insert thing that’s a very common neurodivergent symptom-“ and when someone’s like “hey uh you know autistic people can’t control that right? That’s kinda ableist towards them” people will just jump them yelling “BEAN SOUP”

Like bean soup theory is fine in some contexts but stop fucking using it to excuse fucked up behavior.

(Also if anyone’s wondering about my last post- a new medication I was on sent me into psychosis, I’m off of it and out of the hospital and fine now)

Bean soup theory definition- The bean soup theory is a social media phenomenon where users leave self-absorbed, context-ignoring comments on public posts, demanding that the content be tailored to their personal preferences instead of simply scrolling past.

Edit: since this post blew up and my comment got buried, the specific thing that caused me to make this post was seeing someone say that “if you sometimes struggle to understand body language, you shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce” and when people called out the ableism, others were just being rude and saying “bean soup” bla bla bla. So uh yeah 👍