#<- autism powers

[shikisei]

ok stupid question my bad

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

@degenerate-mystery-inc-whore and I watch a lot of shows together. She’s learned much from recognizing patterns in my taste in media.

Every time Entrapta showed up in the intro of She-Ra, I literally screamed “THERE’S MY BABY!”

When we reached the Marcy episodes of Amphibia I began to vibrate so hard that I shook the couch and the nearby table.

I sang along to all the Lapis songs in Steven Universe.

I have said (repeatedly) that Luz is the biggest mood I’ve ever seen in a character. The Owl House is essential for understanding me as a person.

[localratwithcowboyhat]

Save me reanimator BTS save me

[bajablastflavoredsaxreed]

i’m enjoying myself thus far

[inkskinned]

even 2 years ago people still said autism with a whisper. it was also how people sometimes whisper lesbian, like they're afraid of uttering a slur. autistic was either an insult or it was something terrible, a horrible burden only select people endure. "select people" were usually 9 year old boys and skinny white men.

they are not hispanic young adults with a dog and a life and friends. i can make (sustained, calculated, painful) eye contact. with certain people, i don't even have to count how many seconds i am holding their vision - i can just look at them. i can wear clothes that bother me, i will just have a worse day than usual. i might cry about any changes to my schedule - but change is scary! this is normal!

when i was 16 it was OCD. i mean that was the thing everyone said. i totally have ocd. they would arrange 6 colors of gel pen in rainbow order (no worry for indigo feeling left out) and they'd be "so ocd" about it.

if you struggle with intrusive thoughts, be careful at this next paragraph, but. at 16 i developed a compulsion that involved self-harm. my ocd was convinced i was simply forgetting that i'd hurt someone terribly - a thought that persisted for no clear or delineated reason.

at some point i will probably write about how the idea of "morally pure thoughts" was hell for me and others with ocd, but this was the odd dichotomy for many of us: they liked our "aesthetic", but were genuinely repulsed by our lived experience. "intrusive thoughts" now means "cutting your hair in the sink" instead of talking yourself down from believing horrible things. "so ocd" is a label without any true understanding.

it's something i've talked about before - in multiplicity - but i firmly believe in the veracity and necessity of self-diagnosis. i think it saves lives and it saves tragedies from occurring. as someone raised in a house that wasn't safe, self-diagnosis was, for many years, the only viable option. 15 and honestly googling: am i depressed or are there demons affecting my behavior.

but it is not genuine self-diagnosis anymore, most of the time. it is a strange, blanched version of that whispered word autism. now certain traits are constantly seen as "autistic" - any passing intense interest. any flubbed social interaction. people say it while laughing - a touch of the 'tism.

and i like the acceptance! i do. i like that people are talking about it. i like that if i self-identify, more people speak up and say me too, bitch. but there is something-else quietly happening, the way it happened to OCD. the quirky, "fun" parts have been washed and sanitized and removed of all suffering. now it is just something that makes you "a little bit silly."

it took me 27 years on this planet before i learned to make friends. something about me just seems incredibly odd, i guess, some kind of radiation monitoring. someone once (in a way that was almost friendly) told me i am doing the right things, but in a way that's off-putting. i have scoured myself raw attempting to be charming.

someone on tiktok does a deep dive into their particular passion. the top comment says "what kind of autism is this lol". like we are a breed of animal. like it has no influence on our experience. like our life is a fresh breeze, an open meadow.

more often for me, life was a drowning.

[geesegooseghost]

i uh learned a new hobby

made a ganondorf statue

my son and his son

i love them

[lovelyrottingcrows]

Learning to understand that when hannibal is trending, its not because big news or anything important happened, its just our collective autism syncing up

[hyacinthstears]

Donnie's got it in the bag this year!! He's got the best swag of all the Autism babys he has the most swag of all of them!!!

@autismswagreblogs

[labyrinthineclockwork]

I'm a camp counselor and a Mechanisms fan. This means I have a unique opportunity of influence on kids who think I'm cool. I have used this power not for evil, but for my own amusement. I've been shouting "JONNY D'VILLE, YOUR HUMBLE CAPTAIN" and i have trained my loyal hoard of a dozen 10 year olds to shout back "FIRST MATE" and its quite possibly the best thing ive ever done. I shouldn't be as proud of this as I am, but it works better than any other attention getter I've ever used.

[vaguely-concerned]

the fact that taash genuinely thinks lucanis is so fucking cool (despite the fact that they like. know him personally and are aware that he sleeps in the pantry among the onions and the turnips lmao) is so adorable and so hilarious

[aphel1on]

laios has very quickly become dear to me not just because he's an autistic protagonist but because his autism is itself one of the reasons his party has an edge over others. though we see him struggle in social situations, his special interest makes him hypercompetent in the context of dungeon survival. i'm aware that's not a NEW observation on him but i was impressed that he even used his special interest to successfully solve a crisis that relied on noticing social cues- he was able to pick out the impostors bc he honed in on the small discrepancies in their attitudes toward monsters. if that isn't weaponizing your autism, i don't know what is

[tobyfoxmademeascaly]

I have a headcanon that yshtola exhibits extremely low levels of Cat Behavior. Barely even flicks her tail. Other miqo’te find it kinda offputting actually. This May or may not be a side effect of being raised in a cave by a reclusive (hyuran) witch

[kkoct-ik]

do you think hes listening to his heartbeat

[bizarre-disjointed]

➜//dEDICATION.

the distribution of responsibilities is very simple. ignis learns fluent cybertronian so that julie and eden can watch rupaul's drag race

more about this au here!

[apple-onigiri]

i think an aspect that might've gone a bit unexplored at large in the post-canon isat content is the niche of siffrin's social fumblage skyrocketing. the loops let them figure out an optimal strategy to get stuff done and it will be weird for them without that safety net, yes, yes, but they also got used to being able to fix their mistakes in conversations. they're allergic to changing the script... unless it lets them avoid making mira upset, or talk to an upset bonnie and then talk to them again because they blundered the first time so hard bonnie had a fit of pique so bad it made siffrin loop.

even before act 5, which a bit of an outlier with how pushed to the limit siffrin is in it, they say things without putting much thought into them and then bemoan saying them - think friendquests, and how much time in them siffrin spends thinking "ughhhh why did i say that the first time", or their comment about the world being inside the universe that's only available in act 4 that concludes with them thinking "stars, why would you say that"

all i'm saying is mx. no-filter would fall into the tmi pits so much more often because their brain recalibrated to a no material consequences mode, and be left with only a mental "whyyyy did i sayyy thattt" as a consolation prize

[picardsims]

EA flower textures

hey maxis match cc people and everyone else too I separated flowers from 140 sims textures and put them all in one image grouped by color (with gaps large enough to rectangle select anything you want)

nothing is resized but tumblr will eat the quality so here's a download link (sfs, in the zip archive there's the whole image as well as every group by itself)

enjoy

kotpicard