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The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

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animating some of my older pics ✨

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Truly hate the way "did this person do something that actually harmed someone" and "do they deserve to be unpersoned for it" are considered the same question

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I've made a longer post on this before but I'm too lazy to go find it again so I'll just say this as a reminder: there are a lot of extremely valid reasons why a queer creator might not be publicly out and why they might not consider it safe or comfortable to come out, from "it's literally illegal to be gay or trans in my country" up to and including "it's no one's fucking business." You have to learn to judge queer art and media with queer characters on its own merits without falling back on the creator's identity to decide whether it's "okay." You have to get comfortable with the idea that you don't get to know everything about a creator. You have to be okay with the fact that you might like something made by a straight or cis person because you don't get to demand a stranger's identity no matter how invested you are in their art. You need to be okay saying "I just didn't like it" about something that may very well have been made by a queer creator, and accept that their work is allowed to exist and you are allowed to just not like it without joining a harassment campaign toward that creator. But most of all, I cannot stress this enough, you need to be able to read and analyze and judge a work on its own merits without demanding personal information about the creator that you aren't entitled to. I'm sorry if you don't like that. You gotta learn to do it anyway. The only alternative is forcibly outing people and I shouldn't have to explain why that is not acceptable.

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>> bo.drive

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bonked his nose

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oh my god two words in that just UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

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Happy New Year! 🎉✨️

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A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) dir. Bill Melendez

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I went to the forest that makes you have multiple pronouns and accidentally touched some poison ivy there

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the year is 2025

scientists are still scrambling to figure out what “zigazig ahh” is so that they can give the spice girls what they really really want

the spice girls are getting impatient

war is upon us

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2025 [with u]

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snoopy of the day

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leave-a-whisper -> lyricallyharley

it's almost the new year, and this url change is long overdue