@caro-que-si thanks for your comment. What I meant by neurotypical asshole kids is exactly that. The neurotypical kids who bought up fidget spinners and (less commonly) fidget cubes as just a toy to play with, do tricks with, and create a new fad toy. By making them more popular with neurotypicals, yes that makes them easier to come by as now every store between here and high hell sells them, but that also means that places are banning them because kids were being stupid with them and broke stuff or were annoying staff with them. Which means that people who visit those places, or work in those places who are neurodivergent can’t use them either. Kids who dont need fidget spinners as a stim toy or as a easy quiet acceptable fidget toy, don’t use them as such. They play with them. They do tricks with them. The throw them across the room to their friends to see if they can catch it still spinning. I’ve had to confiscate them during an overnight I was working because a kid would rather try and figure out “new sick tricks” to do with it on the boat than pay attention while we were working with a rather important line on the vessel. As such I do not want to be perceived as one of these kids, and I don’t want to associate myself with these kids. While I am an adult, it is still a self conscious fear and insecurity I have. I have put off getting a spinner for a long time because the neurotypical kids who bought them up so quick have made them feel like they aren’t foe people liie me anymore.
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