@BrahmaBelarusian
Oh and I get that! I’m also autistic, and while my tone of voice is seldom problematic, I am sometimes misunderstood.

When I say nasty, I mean explicitly so. Like someone questioning my right to use a “ladies toilet”, the intention being to harass and intimidate.

@wauz @Susan60 It's not really a matter of being grumpy, it's a matter of ableist people pretty continually assuming that after they either get way too close to a person, grab a mobility aid of theirs & move it without the permission, or touch them without their permission, that said people can't react in any other way than to be passively obedient & subservient to said abuse.

Most people have the understanding that is seeing people with abnormal gates, using canes or crutches to give them a little more space to move....and not less, but the ableists....

*The only entities waking us up early are pigs/cops at our door, always over things that don't really harm anyone including ourselves, but sometimes that do "offend" the sensibilities of other people. My spouse worked & woke early for decades but he doesn't anymore- so when a pig starts banging on our door (almost always completely ignoring the doorbell) 2-5 hours before the time his alarm clock is now set for, it's a bigoted pig problem- not our attitude!

@BrahmaBelarusian
Yes, I got that. My point just was to use an unspoken signal. The grumpy bit is just about me, bc that was, what actually was the case. Something like the black and yellow stripes of a wasp, saying: Don't mess with me.
People _are_ stupid and often they don't realize how rude they are. Or, let's say: their behavior is felt rude, whatever they intended.

@Susan60 @MelissaBearTrix

@wauz Whenever disabled badges have been worn &/or listings for pigs of disabled people have been sent, more of us (disabled people) have been harmed & killed outright, in my country, so badges for this, just like laws against freedom of speech, aren't going to solve this problem set.

I've had a physical therapist whom was supposed to help me with my gate & was told before this that I was very prone to falling, that I didn't return to largely because on a first visit, said person who was over 1 foot shorter than me, followed me out at a distance of under 1/2 a foot away, so I'm very aware of either intelligence or purposeful ignorance of many people.

Your badge only worked because few enough people were around so that you likely could've individually explained to them that you needed space & quiet.

I do all I can to be clear, but as the bigots control law enforcement & a sizable chunk of the legislative system, so neither more laws nor badges are going to fix said messes!

@wauz @BrahmaBelarusian

Yes, I think the rise of right wing authoritarians in many parts of the world have given people licence to express more hatred.