hi y’all, just wanted to announce i’m deleting wattpad soon. i started this account when i was a very early teen just coming into my autistic identity, and a lot of my writing style from back then doesn’t sit right with me anymore. i think it reflects where i was and my view of the world at a particular stage in time, and while i don’t regret putting my ill-formed musings on here 4 years ago, it’s honestly very cringeworthy now and i need to have a degree of separation from it. the original autistic wattpad community that i… grew up on, i guess, has also gradually dissipated with time. i guess i’ve been nostalgic for Old Wattpad, when it was just the six or seven of us earnest autistics (in a sea of horny fanfic writers lol), starting cyclical comment threads on @misslunarose’s stories and calling out ableist trolls and supporting each other through tough times. most of those accs are inactive now, their stories long deleted or comments long unresponded to.
i can keep the memes up if y’all want, since i don’t necessarily regret anything i wrote there and think they served the purpose i wanted them to- many of you resonate with them deeply and they’ve provided my audience of autistic youth with a sense of community membership they might not have had before. but i’ll be deleting all my other stories and basically becoming inactive on here. i have truly enjoyed the time i have spent in this community and i’m saddened to leave it.
- oliver (epicautistic)
