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Thinking about this dude from way back when I was in elementary school who was like 3 years above me, had the same name as me, and just gave me all his Pokemon cards

I don’t remember how it happened but a 5th grader willingly giving some random 2nd grader on the bus like all his Pokémon cards is crazy no matter the circumstances

I hope he’s doing ok

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Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

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All of this is insanely real, but especially that last one

ADHD waiting mode is so fucking awful sometimes

"adhd isn't a disability"

breaks down over trying to start tasks until he deadline is stupidly close

unable to do basic chores unless it's like 4am and then the whole damn house gets cleaned

speaks too fast

tangent and tangent and tangent. makes social situations hard

literally unable to stop themselves from interrupting people mid sentence (and the constant "*interrupts*- sorry, please continue")

knows what they want to say, cannot find the words, even if it's something basic

auditory processing disorder (pretty common with adhd), like how do you explain that you can hear but your brain has minecraft server lag and the chat will appear soon

hyperfixations, and people thinking they are special interests when they are not (they are short term, literally stops you from basic care like eating and drinking when in) edit: it was brought to my attention this comes across like special interests are easier to live with which is not the case, please do not take that away from this post!!!

impulse purchases making bank accounts cry

all or nothing. not hungry to pain. don't need to pee until pain. you get the picture

cannot sit still, like actually can't, constant moving and shuffling which people think would be cute but actually just pisses people off

doesn't have a fidget toy, not bc they are popular but bc they would have to put it away bc dylan over there got a fidget spinner and has been loudly playing with it (dylan is neurotypical)

cannot do anything if there is something else to do that day, must wait

just stfu it is a disability

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Literally everyone does

It’s called cost of living

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How I feel getting water in the middle of the night

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I do not interact with you but you’re great

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Me when someone offhandedly mentions my special interest or something that relates to it

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"Autism isn't an excuse to be an asshole."

Fuck off.

Autistic people are punished so frequently by everyone around them sometimes for actually doing something wrong and sometimes just for being harmlessly different. It's pretty much impossible to not be an asshole in response to that. It's pretty much impossible to not be an asshole when you're punished so frequently that you can't tell when you actually deserve it. It's pretty much impossible to not be an asshole when people have been an asshole to you a million times and you're considered too sensitive if you don't like it. It's pretty much impossible to not be an asshole when you have zero role models and you have to figure out everything on your own. It's pretty much impossible to not be an asshole when you're regularly reprimanded for doing something wrong and people refuse to tell you what you should do instead.

You're not required to associate with someone who's an asshole. But in a world that normalizes being an asshole, autistic people are going to be assholes too. If you don't want autistic people to use their autism as an excuse to be an asshole, then society needs to stop normalizing being an asshole. Autistic people shouldn't have to have a perfect moral compass when neurotypical people can easily get by without one.

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Whoa whoa whoa don’t put punks in quotation marks, this is undeniably punk as fuck

Trying to frame pro-Luigi "punks" negatively by sharing that they *checks notes* hate pedophiles is hilarious

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My favorite trope is the Gillian trying to their whole monologue thing but the hero just ignores them and starts kicking the shit out of them mid speech

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Happy new year gang!!

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i think im just not worth getting close to

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We are overdue for another muppet movie

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GOOD NEWS ABOU- oh shit

Bad news about the boulder everyone

good morning kings let’s push this boulder

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Eugene Pinch, if you will

Eugene pin!!!

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I love how you can tell who has and hasn’t watched drawfee from the comments/reblogs

i had to hide him so i didn’t scare a repair man