R-E-S-P-E-C-T

 Guest Post by Melissa Pedersen

Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person."  And sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority."

And sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person," and they think they're being fair.  But they're not and it's not okay.

"Autistic Abby" - Tumblr, April 2015.