#Asd

[the-future-is-chrome]

the neurodivergent experience:

20% of the time: wowwieee!!! i love my passions and interests!!!!! they make me so happy i want to jump up and down!!!!! weee!!!!!!! :3333333333

80% of the time: this mind is a prison

[weirdplutoprince]

Autistic? Me?

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[sonofcelluloid]

Autistics who use precise language are getting TORN APART in ao3 comment sections over suspicions of being AI. “No human being talks like this.” Man, autistics have been getting compared to robots about as long as robots have existed, fuck you very much!!

[guttednight]

Been thinking about my darling Richeh from wha this autism awareness month, because 1) I am autistic and obsessed with witch hat atelier, 2) I love her so dearly, and 3) regardless of intention I think she is really wonderful autism representation. Here are some of the reasons why!

Sensory needs

When I think of Richeh’s sensory needs I think mainly of food and noise, but I’d argue there’s some tactile and olfactory stuff there with her too. For food, we see in wha kitchen that she’s pretty avoidant of certain foods (aka anything that isn’t sweets or meats!) and Qifrey likes to think of ways he can incorporate more variety into her diet without pushing her - I think mainly of the halfmoon legumes chapter here. In that same chapter there is a panel of her distressed because her hands smell like grass after helping prepare them, which I like to interpret as a sensory aversion to the smell. I also really love how both the girls and Qifrey are very surprised and proud of Richeh for being willing to try new foods, but also insist she needn’t push herself - it’s so sweet to me thats she’s in an environment where she’s understood and allowed to have different needs without being portrayed as an inconvenience. For an example of aversion to noise I think of the quartz sugar crystals chapter in wha kitchen volume 4, where Qifrey is bashing up the crystals and Richeh looks very much the way I do when dealing with loud noises! Squeezing the life out of poor brushbug! I like to think she finds brushbug’s fur a sensory comfort too, since I feel like out of all of the girls she seems to be panelled with him the most (could be confirmation bias on my part!), I know that’s a bit more of a stretch but that’s how I like to see it!

Affect, expression, and bluntness

In my opinion, Richeh generally either has more subdued facial expressions or conveys emotion with different facial expressions compared to the other girls. My favourite example is the panel after she gives everyone their guiding rings - her face is pretty neutral (minus the blush) and she’s hiding behind her hair and nodding, and there’s a little arrow saying she’s overjoyed. It’s one of my favourite Richeh panels, she’s looks so silly, all the panels I’m talking about I’m just gonna attach to this post at the end. When I read her dialogue (outside of particularly tense or emotional moments) I find myself naturally reading it with more of a flat affect/intonation than I do other characters, but I don’t know whether that’s just a me thing. I definitely think that she can be pretty blunt though! She’s unguarded about her opinions and honestly that’s fucking awesome. Maybe not awesome all of the time, I’ll attach a panel I’m thinking of where she tells Tetia her hairstyle is weird and Agott tells her off for being blunt lol

Fixation and attention to detail

This bit is specifically about the quartz sugar crystal chapter in the kitchen spin-off that I mentioned before, because I think she’s just so wonderful in it. Like bro that’s my daughter for real. Anyway, Qifrey crushes up a big pretty sugar crystal to make some gelatin sweets for the girls but Richeh is upset that he has to destroy the original crystal. Thinking about it, that could definitely be interpreted as the autistic tendency to get attached to certain inanimate objects. She gets a little fixated here, and whilst the other girls are making their own crystal sweets in fun new shapes and colours, Richeh makes a perfect replica of the original sugar crystal from memory. She is so strange and I love her so much.

Aversion to change

This is a huge part of Richeh’s early character and pretty much the focus of volume 4. She loves her magic and feels secure in her own style and talents, but is reluctant to expand her magic knowledge out of fear of this changing and causing her to lose the magic that feels genuine and personal to her. I think difficulty with change is a less well known autistic trait, but many of us really struggle with it, myself especially! Volume 4 means so much to me, and regardless of Shirahama’s intention I was glad to see myself reflected in Richeh there.

Other miscellaneous things

I just remembered about her little room!! The cool magic hiding spot she has in that big pot in her room where she escapes to when she doesn’t want to talk or be around people. Need me one of those for real. I think there also some evidence for her stimming, especially that one panel where she’s excited and is pumping her fists up and down in the air with a completely blank expression, that really reads as autistic to me ahaha

I’ve ran out of things to add I think, and I don’t actually expect anyone to read this, it’s mainly for me and I’m sure it’ll sit in my drafts for a while anyway! Disclaimer: I’m not trying to say anything about Shirahama’s writing intentions, I’m just having fun! Read witch hat atelier please! It might be my favourite thing in the world at the moment actually! Oh yeah! The panels! I’ll just shove all the ones I can find below lol

[art-of-mathematics]

I take 5 of these autism-friendly stickers, please.

[pigeon-cave]

Yeah

[magentasnail]

served my duty as an autistic artist and made a bunch of autism creature reaction images

[your-fave-is-neurospicy]

jinx from arcane is autistic (headcanon)

submitted by anonymous

[narcissisticpdcultureis]

npd + asd with a strong sense of justice culture is feeling genuinely fucking frustrated that everyone isn't more like you when it comes to social justice *even though they have empathy and you don't*. how are you not as good of a person as I am? how do you not have MY morals?

why aren't you putting more effort into BEING NICE TO PEOPLE? it doesn't matter if you don't have empathy or if you do, because both kinds of people are equally as mean for no goddamn reason. i'm better than everyone because i'm still nice to people even though i don't have empathy. I'm the most important part of my life (and it feels like i'm the most important person ever) but i actually put effort into caring about people. even if it was because it gave me attention before, now i realize it's actually good.

the world should be more like how i think it should be

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[do-u-know-this-autisticcharacter]

Do You Know This (non-canon) Autistic Character?

Propaganda:

While not technically diagnosed, everyone pretty much agrees that he's autistic. He's an alien gladiator from another dimension. His whole arc is about learning to "be human" and interact with society, as well as falling in love with his best friend who was teaching him this stuff. He speaks bluntly and carries his comfort objects everywhere (swords) and he learned how to socialize from watching TV.

Any other details:

He is bisexual.

[residenttransguy]

Taking away disability accommodations as a punishment is ableist as fuck and needs to stop now!

[This also includes punishing autistic kids by taking away their access to stim toys or sensory breaks!]

[bipolarmango]

My doctor and therapist: now with this autism + ADHD diagnosis you need to learn to unmask because masking all the time will make you burn out again and feel like shit

Other people: well it's just interesting how after getting the diagnosis you suddenly start behaving like that I mean I'm not saying you're faking it's just funny how you suddenly cannot be normal like you were before

[2003-playground]

Can we stop using "still lives with their parents" or "unemployed" or "doesn't have a drivers license" or "didn't graduate high school" as an insult or evidence that someone is a bad person? Struggling with independence or meeting milestones is not a moral failing.

[pigeon-cave]

Spectrum of overwhelm, now in triangle form due to popular demand

[Image description: A triangle chart titled, ‘Spectrum of Overwhelm.’ The three points are ‘404 Error,’ showing a person with an empty thought bubble; ‘wet beast,’ showing a person sweating and sobbing; and ‘rage beast’ showing a person clenching their fists in an outline of orange fire. The peak is the ‘404 error’ vertex, and the inside of the triangle here is coloured beige and labelled, ‘shutdown.’ The lower half is labelled ‘meltdown’ and is red on the rage beast side and blue on the wet beast side. \End description]