(And why thatās not misanthropy – itās ethics)
I donāt subscribe to a human-centered world. Full stop.
Humans didnāt inherit the planet – we took it, strip-mined it, paved it, poisoned it, and then congratulated ourselves for being āadvanced.ā
Animals didnāt do this. Humans did.
So yes, I prefer dogs, cats, parrots to people. Not because animals are cute. But because they donāt lie to themselves about what they are.
š The Most Destructive Species – With the Biggest Ego
Humans wage wars, annihilate ecosystems, industrialize suffering, and then write philosophy books about morality.
Animals donāt.
They donāt build systems that require denial to function. They donāt outsource cruelty so they donāt have to look at it. They donāt rebrand violence with softer language.
We do.
š„ Why I Became Vegetarian (As an Adult)
I didnāt grow up vegetarian. I became one the moment I admitted something simple and uncomfortable:
I could never walk into a slaughterhouse.
And if you canāt witness an act, but still demand its benefits, thatās not morality – thatās outsourcing your conscience.
Paul McCartney said it decades ago, and it still cuts because itās true:
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.
The entire industry depends on distance. On silence. On people not knowingāor pretending not to know.
š§ The Irony No One Likes to Talk About
The woman who made slaughterhouses more āhumaneā was autistic.
Temple Grandin – an autistic scientist -revolutionized animal handling by doing something radically unfamiliar to most humans: she actually paid attention to how animals experience the world.
She noticed details others ignored. Sounds. Shadows. Angles. Stress triggers. Fear responses.
While ānormalā society dismissed animals as units of production, an autistic woman reduced their suffering by empathy and precision – not sentimentality, not slogans.
Let that sink in.
The system needed someone who didnāt think like everyone else to make it less cruel.
š§ Iām Autistic. And Iām Proud of What One of Us Changed.
I self-identify as autistic. I know I am. And Iām proud of it.
Not in a performative, hashtag way – but in a grounded, factual way. Because when I look at who actually reduced suffering in this world, I notice something inconvenient for polite society:
One of us did.
š Animals Donāt Pretend
Animals donāt posture.
They donāt moralize.
They donāt destroy the planet while claiming divine superiority.
They are what they areāhonest, bounded, present.
Humans, by contrast, are experts at self-deception. We call domination āprogress,ā cruelty ānecessity,ā and indifference ārealism.ā
While the so-called ānormalā world industrialized cruelty, an autistic woman improved conditions by doing something radical: she paid attention.
š§© This Is Why Autism Threatens Comfortable Systems
Autistic people notice what others normalize.
We question what others accept.
We struggle with hypocrisy because itās logically incoherent – not because weāre ārigid.ā
Temple Grandin didnāt fix cruelty by pretending it wasnāt there.
She faced it head-on and asked: what does this feel like from the other side?
That question alone changed an industry.
š„ Final Word
Iām autistic.
Iām proud of it.
And Iām proud that one of us made the world less cruel – not by domination, but by understanding.
Animals donāt lie.
Autistic people are famously bad at lying to themselves.
That overlap explains a lot.
Choosing animals over people isnāt about hating humans.
Itās about refusing to center a species that has provenāover and over – that power matters more to it than responsibility.
If that makes people uncomfortable, good.
Discomfort is often the first honest reaction.
