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As an autistic person, I hate being perceived. Being perceived by others is to be seen through the lens of other people, however that may be. Hating being perceived is not wanting to be looked at, not

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This is generally a good article but this section

Erin Rackham proposes being perceived as another type of sense.

She can propose but the link is to a TikTok and meantime ‘gaze detection’ has been disproven repeatedly. Here’s a link to an accessible article by an accredited neuroscientist writing in an academic journal discussing exactly this

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