By wirestock at Envato Elements.
(For how i crafted these quotes, see What i changed in survey-takers' responses and What i didn't change.)
"I am atheist and neurodivergent, it can have a compounding affect that makes people talk down or even be more critical of you."
"I find it easiest to talk to other queer and autistic and non christian adults because I know they can understand where I'm coming from in my thoughts and experiences."
"i'm not religious at all. i have some symptoms of autism (undiagnosed, not sure if i truly have it) and it's prevented me from feeling comfortable driving a car (i get really stressed), so i can't get a job unless i work from home. i live in a really conservative part of the US, so with all the anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments rising, it all compounds into feeling like i'm alive in a place that would rather have me dead because i'm 'an abomination and useless' (not how i see myself, but how it feels like this country thinks about me)."
"I am an Athiest and I am neurodivergent. Being an atheist impacts me in the way that I feel unsafe in religious circles because of their history (and many current policies and political ideologies) that specifically target me and my community. Being neurodivergent impacts me in that I have an extremely complex relationship with gender and my personal identities."
"Yes, I feel more comfortable talking to adults who are Jewish and/or autistic and/or trans. Since we have something in common, those intersecting identities give me something to bounce off of."
"Being Jewish affects the complicated feelings I get around identity because of bigotry I face from both sides of my identity about the other. Also because of some of my neurodivergencies I can have a hard time understanding people who are cis-het-allo sometimes."
"I'm autistic. I'm not always taken seriously as a baseline because of it but being trans makes it even worse bc ppl assume I can't understand/know if I'm trans/queer or form proper relationships because of it. I've had some struggle within the community because there's some intersection between my generations queer community and ppl who fake disorders, and even tho those ppl r easy to avoid they leave a pretty bad impact on the larger community as far as impression/ reaction/support/ accomodations of those of us who actually have those issues. (ex: a few people at my old highschool who claimed to have undiagnosed split personalities or tourettes or autism when they didn't but tried to speak on behalf of those communities anyway.) aside from that, I'm also Jewish, and within the community there's actually a good bit of support. I've felt more comfortable being out to the community at my temple than most places, including areas meant to be queer safe spaces."
"I am autistic, queer and a Norse pagan (and ex-catholic) these all impact how I view myself and my community. Growing up Catholic was very harmful for me because I was taught to hate queer people and by extension myself. My autism affects how I view my gender as gender is heavily based on societal standards which I don't understand."
"personally, i'm a satanist. it's mostly due to family and how they've treated me/reacted to my identity. i'm also neurodivergent and they've always treated me as an outcast due to it."
