#“I'm literally neurodivergent and a minor.”

[blueloverrory]

TW // BLOOD

I was experiiimentiiing wiith designz n allz n then III made Starflurry !!!1!!1!! Uh. Herez hiiiz dezcriiipziiion I guezz (I'm wriiitiiing normally for it lolz :"] :sad: )

Starflurry is a sadistic and manipulative murderer — A god made by Satan himself. They used to be an asylum patient (no. 162) but later on, she escaped. He doesn't give a single shit about romance. She never really caring about anything but escaping anyways.

After getting out, he managed to find a place nobody would look for her. Eventually, they started getting bored again, and you know what was the best thing she thought of? Kidnapping people from all over the planet they formerly lived on and forcing them to participate in a gameshow that none ever wanted to join.

Oh my fucking god III made her zo fucking edgy.

[divine-bloodlines]

Yoda, old fuck and head of a paramilitary cult: "Afraid are you? See through you, we can. Little bitch, are you?”

A 9-year-old who was legally considered property 4 hours ago:

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

akari my precious bby

[that-weird-skeleton-bastard]

Harry in goblet of fire:

[viksalos]

ever since we figured out my husband, his sister, and his cousins are all autistic, the possibility that i married into an entirely autistic catholic family where all of the older adults are undiagnosed is kind of objectively hilarious tbh. everyone's autistic drives compel them to need a bunch of alone time but everyone's catholic cultural mores compel them to put family first and repress the hell out of themselves. no wonder they're all passive-aggressive as hell to each other all the time and got mad at me when i didn't pick up on how to do "family" that way. i literally did get catholic religious trauma-by-proxy lmfao

[anarkhebringer]

Not a Spaniard calling an American a gringo on Puki's post diufojhbuosdjg

[captain-mommy-issues]

🫵 YOU ARE CUTE

...

[binch-i-might-be]

fundamentally I am just a silly little guy, your honour

[turoce]

i still am salty over the time, back when wordle was popular, when i posted a screenshot of wordle and grown-ass adults started berating me for doing that.

i was a kid and 40 year old Janet is screaming about how i spoiled today's wordle. it sounds funny and i probably should be laughing (??) about it more but like god the scorn i faced over that post was.... not funny, actually.

[fat-bro-strider-tgirl-tits]

Sorry for Moral Orel posting I'm autistic

[flimsy-roost]

I realized the other day that the reason I didn't watch much TV as a teenager (and why I'm only now catching up on late aughts/early teens media that I missed), is because I literally didn't understand how to use our TV. My parents got a new system, and it had three remotes with a Venn diagram of functions. If someone left the TV on an unfamiliar mode, I didn't know how to get back to where I wanted to be, so I just stopped watching TV on my own altogether.

I explained all this to my therapist, because I didn't know if this was more related to my then-unnoticed autism, or to my relationship with my parents at the time (we had issues less/unrelated to neurodivergency). She told me something interesting.

In children's autism assessments, a common test is to give them a straightforward task that they cannot reasonably perform, like opening an overtight jar. The "real" test is to see, when they realize that they cannot do it on their own, if they approach a caregiver for help. Children that do not seek help are more likely to be autistic than those that do.

This aligns with the compulsory independence I've noticed to be common in autistic adults, particularly articulated by those with lower support needs and/or who were evaluated later in life. It just genuinely does not occur to us to ask for help, to the point that we abandon many tasks that we could easily perform with minor assistance. I had assumed it was due to a shared common social trauma (ie bad experiences with asking for help in the past), but the fact that this trait is a childhood test metric hints at something deeper.

My therapist told me that the extremely pathologizing main theory is that this has something to do with theory of mind, that is doesn't occur to us that other people may have skills that we do not. I can't speak for my early childhood self, or for all autistic people, but I don't buy this. Even if I'm aware that someone else has knowledge that I do not (as with my parents understanding of our TV), asking for help still doesn't present itself as an option. Why?

My best guess, using only myself as a model, is due to the static wall of a communication barrier. I struggle a lot to make myself understood, to articulate the thing in my brain well enough that it will appear identically (or at least close enough) in somebody else's brain. I need to be actively aware of myself and my audience. I need to know the correct words, the correct sentence structure, and a close-enough tone, cadence, and body language. I need draft scripts to react to possible responses, because if I get caught too off guard, I may need several minutes to construct an appropriate response. In simple day-to-day interactions, I can get by okay. In a few very specific situations, I can excel. When given the opportunity, I can write more clearly than I am ever capable of speaking.

When I'm in a situation where I need help, I don't have many of my components of communication. I don't always know what my audience knows. I don't have sufficient vocabulary to explain what I need. I don't know what information is relevant to convey, and the order in which I should convey it. I don't often understand the degree of help I need, so I can come across inappropriately urgent or overly relaxed. I have no ability to preplan scripts because I don't even know the basic plot of the situation.

I can stumble though with one or two deficiencies, but if I'm missing too much, me and the potential helper become mutually unintelligible. I have learned the limits of what I can expect from myself, and it is conceptualized as a real and physical barrier. I am not a runner, so running a 5k tomorrow does not present itself as an option to me. In the same way, if I have subconscious knowledge that an interaction is beyond my capability, it does not present itself as an option to me. It's the minimum communication requirements that prevent me from asking for help, not anything to do with the concept of help itself.

Maybe. This is the theory of one person. I'm curious if anyone else vibes with this at all.

[andys-muses]

ON FUCKING PRIDE MONTH--

[schizopositivity]

To all the people telling me "I'm in your walls" is a harmless meme and "if you are sensitive enough to be triggered by it you shouldn't be on the Internet", please read this and then tell me it's a meme that has nothing to do with schizophrenia, it's a harmless meme, and if me and other people with schizophrenia get 'triggered' by it we are too sensitive.

It was literally made to purposely trigger people in psychosis/ people with schizophrenia specifically. Me and many other people who post about our schizophrenia/psychosis online get spammed with this type of thing, I get anons pretty regularly. I actively try to avoid it but it doesn't matter. I can't think of any other popular "meme" that purposely triggers people online who are already vulnerable. It is blatant sanism/ableism.

There is no way you can divorce the "joke" from its original intended purpose. And why do you guys fight so hard to justify this "joke"? It's not ever funny, it's not clever or creative, it's just bullying a minority, that's literally it.

Those of us with schizophrenia/psychosis deserve to be on the Internet just like everybody else. It's not our fault that there is a popular meme made specifically to target our vulnerabilities. Even if we try our hardest to avoid these types of jokes, people will seek us out and harass us regardless.

Notice on the Know Your Meme page, all the other related searches that are more "memes" meant to trigger, harass, or make fun of people with psychosis/schizophrenia. A lot of these memes have only started/become popular in the last few years. And yet no one seems to be speaking up about how fucked up that is. Not even neurodivergent/mental illness awareness online. And when those of us with schizophrenia try ourselves to call it out, guess what kind of comments we get 🙄

[skateboards-wheels]

as a queer person specifically an unlabeled queer person, dream trying to defend him profiting off the ambiguity of his sexuality so he can further manipulate his fans enrages me. him not knowing what queer meant when tubbo brought it up, him still trying to dodge and avoid the question with "well i'm a MAN who's been in a relationship with only women my entire life and its hard to define yada yada" and just instead of like idk. researching more about it?? asking more about it?? he just says oh yeah i'm queer.

like GIRL. you literally just acted like you didn't know what even being queer fucking MEANT. he sounded genuinely confused when tubbo asked him if he was or wasn't queer specifically and then minutes later he's confirming it.

i don't know how to articulate it but it just kinda pisses me off. also not knowing that dnf.gay links directly to your friend's merch store? donating 10 percent, only 10 percent, of the proceeds to charity of your pride merch? then backtracking and syaing "oh no we donated way mroe" but never specifying a number + you conveniently never specified it until now?

combine this with how he defended himself with saying the r slur thing, its just. so insanely manipulative. what we can't attack you because you're queer and neurodivergent?? what next suddenly you're a minor and you've been raised in a cardboard box all alone and your bones break every night and your heart attacks put you to sleep??? shut the fuck up man

[honeyspotpie]

francis farnsworth is one of the funniest characters to me ever. he's literally just a personification of the "umm. I'm neurodivergent and a minor??" meme but his two primary personality traits beside that are one. owning a gun and two. breaking the forth wall. peak right there

[incorrectsterekquotes]

[in court for their crimes]

did not get caught: lydia martin not enough evidence to convict: jackson whittemore, vernon boyd i'm literally neurodivergent and a minor: isaac lahey and I'll do it again!: stiles stilinski, erica reyes, cora hale says 'sorry >.<' and is immediately acquitted: kira yukimura, allison argent I'm not going back to jail: peter hale currently on the run: derek hale, malia tate hale