#( My autistic skills )

[badolmen]

They don’t even attempt to assassinate US politicians anymore. You notice that? Not since the anthrax scare back for… who was it, Barack? And even that… pathetic. This new generation has no respect for an honest hitman. I’m not sure this new generation has any honest hitman - you see that shit with Boeing? Sloppy, fucking disgraceful - you kill the whistleblowers before they get halfway to a lawsuit. What kind of fucking amateur is doing faked suicides the night before testimony? Goddamn greenhorns. Back in my day someone tried to shoot Ronald Reagan in broad daylight. There used to be bomb threats to Congress. I took out a few union leaders in the utilities sector myself. Today’s generation? Won’t even threaten to throw a punch - not even over on that - what’s it now, ‘X’? They got no guts. None! And they don’t even have poor impulse control to boot! Too much of that - that panopticon anxiety bullshit. “Oh what if I get a called out post???” People used to send the president letters full of bioweapons. In the mail! Today’s generation? Not a chance. All because of woke.

[i-eat-mold]

Y’all are not ready for the next thing I’m cooking up

[formosusiniquis]

any cosmo girl would have known

“Oh she did it for sure.”

“Steve!”

“Ten bucks, Bobert, don't give me that look last time we agreed double or nothing.”

“No,” Nancy insists. “This isn't Murder, She Wrote or Scooby-Doo or Columbo-”

“You saw who did it in Columbo at the beginning,” Eddie reminds.

“I know it's an awful show.”

Robin and Steve remain in sync enough to each get a hand on his shoulder to keep him from getting on the coffee table to defend the only good cop show in existence.

“I'm only pointing out,” she rewinds the VHS taking it back the two or three minutes they'd talked over before stopping it completely, “that this is a movie, not a drama with a repeated format that Steve can pattern recognition into predicting.”

“You haven't seen it already, right?” Robin asks. “The one rule of Monthly Middle-Aged Movie Night is you have to pick a movie none of us have seen.”

“No, I haven't seen it already. If you'll all remember when I asked you each to go see it with me I got,” he points to each of them in turn. “‘Wouldn't you rather see Tomb Raider?’ from double VHS, prestige cinephile and ‘That's too much pink for me, baby, you know I have that intolerance, maybe Rob or Nance will go?’ from my emo-isn’t-a-phase husband. And ‘I'm a little busy with this new story, Steve,’ from Nancy, the only one of you with a real excuse.”

“Some feminist you are, Birdie.”

“I don't want to hear it from you. I watched two of the blandest men alive pursue Renee Zellweger while the screen writers tried to convince us she was homely because you ‘forgot’ you had band practice.”

“You said you liked it!”

“It grew on me, but sometimes you just want to see a woman in a tank top. And I won't be shamed by the same man who cried during Beauty and the Beast.”

“I went with my sweet baby Lucy Joan, you miserable hag,” Eddie says, “and they turned that hot werewolf into a boring looking man.”

“You weren't into that? Look at who-”

“Why am I getting made fun of? Can we finish the movie?”

“No, I'm not going to let this be another Sixth Sense situation,” Nancy says, holding the remote hostage, she knows no one will try to take it from her.

“Ugh don't even bring that up,” Eddie groans, “Dustin still mentions it in at least one letter a year.”

Nancy nods, prim and proper, “Exactly, so tell us right now why you think she did it, then we'll play it again.”

“Chutney, the daughter,” Steve corrects, “have you even been paying attention? Her hair's permed.”

“And press play,” Eddie shouts.

“No,” Robin smacks his hands as he makes his ballsy play to reach around her for the remote. “Show your work, Dingus, even I didn't follow that one.”

“I don't always like the movies everyone else picks but I at least watch them. Her hair is permed, she said she was in the shower. She would have had to have been washing her hair if she didn't hear the gunshot and she has a perm.”

“You can wash your hair with a perm,” Nancy points out.

“You would know.” Eddie snarks, fingering the ends of his own hair.

“You can't wash a fresh perm, you'll fuck up the ammonium thioglycolate. Then you're out forty bucks and you've got limp hair. She killed her dad and lied about being in the shower.”

“Press play,” Eddie decrees again, leaning in close to Steve's side to purr, “it's pretty sexy when you go all hair care detective.”

His hand starts to slip below the blanket. “This is how we ended up with Lucy in the first place,” Steve reminds him, just under the sounds of the courtroom drama picking back up. It doesn’t stop Eddie’s hand from wandering until the movie’s climax starts getting closer, and Eddie’s attention is captured just like Robin’s and Nancy’s.

“Unbelievable,” Robin says, when Elle cites the perm salt.

“Never again,” Nancy swears, when Chutney screams her confession.

“Lucy’s been asking for a brother or sister,” Eddie flirts, as Elle reveals that any good Cosmo girl could have solved it.

No more movies with mysteries or twist endings for a while, they all agree, Robin can’t afford to keep betting against Steve.

[yardsards]

i needed to express a sentiment in the creative stylings of @dunmeshiminimumwage

[3liza]

really not liking this trend im seeing of ignorance and lack of effort being attributed to a natural consequence of "autism". sorry you cant understand simple storytelling my dude but media illiteracy is not actually a symptom of autism, maybe you're just a little dim???

[mueritos]

its my bday today so heres a new meet the artist :3

[danishphoner]

recalling that one time when i got obsessed with tlsp interviews and might have gathered (almost) all of them for further cataloguing on tumblr but wasn't quite sure if they'd still be somewhat relevant in the present day lmao:

[tmbatcat]

I have a headache, but I love him... and also I don't give up on a drawing challenge just because of a headache

[soupforsoup]

It's autism acceptance month salute the flag motherfuckers

[bella-but-not-hadid444]

autism hack:

if you find starting conversations really hard, i’d highly recommend accessorising any and all of your personal belongings with keyrings, pins and paraphernalia/merch of your favourite things (e.g. band pins, anime keychains, tv show stickers etc) because the likelihood is, that neurotypicals will mention it and strike up a conversation because they see it as a common interest!

i can vouch for this because 3 people in the last week have complimented my keyrings/pins and started a conversation! it’s like a subliminal way of starting a conversation without having to say anything!!! live love laugh accessories.

[milogoestogreendale]

“are you busy on february 14?” babe you mean national early 21st century romanticism day?

[aknolan]

Having just watched the underground job, I gotta talk about how Leverage does something very huge with Parker being written as autistic that I don't remember having seen in any show before.

After she successfully grifts for the job, she goes and takes a nap.

And this hits on something that I really don't see coming up with autistic characters ever. That being, Parker can do all of the social stuff (granted, she had some help), it's just really tiring for her.

This fits right in with what I'd noticed already, how Parker is always just about as convincing as she needs to be for the job. Being more convincing than that? It would just tire her out, and she doesn't feel like dealing with that.

Whenever I see autistic characters, it's with this very black and white (a bit ironic) view of their social skills. They're bad at it, others are good at it, and that's it.

And Parker breaks that. She's not bad at it, she just gets tired from doing it and most of the time it's not worth the effort.

Parker does just fine as a grifter, and afterwards she has to take a nap. That's the best writing I've seen for an autistic character.

[the-overthinktank]

I feel like part of autistic infighting is that the term encompasses such a huge range of disability, symptoms, and experiences that advocacy often struggles to be inclusive without becoming so unspecific it's toothless. On one hand high vs low functioning is a false dichotomy, on the other hand someone who was has severe difficulty communicating and motor disabilities has obviously had very different experiences from someone who found out later in life and can mask

[felixcosm]

Tex and Outlaw being attached at the hip is so cute tbh.

Either they're really so uncomfortable of being apart that they go everywhere together no matter what is happening OR Tex decided to help Outlaw socialize in Texas by inviting him along so he can make friends too

[moe-broey]

One thing they don't tell you about the Senshi tulpa that WILL inevitably manifest in your mind to tell you to eat better is that. Every time I make myself a coffee via kuerig instantly, I can hear him. Lamenting the fact that I have become so accustomed to convenience and ease that even a standard coffee machine has become foreign to me. I am thinking about how to make coffee without use of a machine in the first place, I am wondering where my french press went, I can see him. In my mind. Showing me how to make coffee in The Dungeon. Dungeon Coffee.

[mrkvhs]

can you guys guess who FINALLY got the rpd outfit after 20 years of grinding in re4 mercenaries