This is how I felt going to pride, like I wasn’t actually apart of a group in certain ways, again. This tends to happen with me, but to experience that feeling via neurodivergence makes no sense. Why why why are they still doing things that so easily induce sensory overload? So many of us are autistic or otherwise neurodivergent. Why are we forcefully dragged to stalls, called at by corporate representatives as we walk by? Why does it feel like consumption is the only purpose. And this is responding to your other comment as well, but it all dissapears after it’s done. The bit of a feeling of community just died. So many people including me need more than that more than just one day a year, and none of us have it. I’m very upset with how pride tends to go, and how quickly everything gets dropped, and how closed off everything in society continues to be for disabled people, even in other marginalized spaces.
Oh, and there were cops everywhere. Still going to go again next time, spending a day with people I care about is worth it to me (although I’m leaving around the time it officially starts)
It could just be that the pride is a bad one, and I would believe that, it’s lib central and the lack of real lasting community probably contributes to the issues with the event as well.