@undefined_variable@sahat@actuallyautistic Yes, the help lines are for allistic people, not us. I tried a warm line a couple times and just ended up teaching them about autism without any benefit to me. A helpline made for autistics is definitely part of what our community needs. I think we need all the support things, like the gay community has, from HRC to Trevor Project. I would love a helpline that would take calls like "help my life is falling apart and i need help to save it before it becomes an unrecoverable crisis i have to call a suicide hotline for".
Earlier this year, the US federal government released a report on the Epidemic of Loneliness in America, which studied loneliness and isolation, the negative effects, and possible solutions. Hundreds of pages, and not a single mention of autism. Absolutely shameful.