#Neither of them are neurotypical

[jigsaw1974]

Chainshipping Autism Creatures

[thewritingowl]

Danny and Damian are just ADHD vs Autism

[ghostdrinkssoup]

does anyone else do the neurodiverse thing where you’re trying to politely engage in a one-on-one conversation but eye contact is really intense and distracting so you try to make excuses to look elsewhere so you can actually process the conversation better but you know you can’t look at the ground too long or it’ll be weird so you nosedive right in and STARE AT THE OTHER PERSON DEAD IN THE EYES LIKE MHM MHM MHM NODDING ALONG but because you were concentrating so hard you forgot to breathe normally and were lowkey holding your breath but if you look visibly out of breath for no reason that’ll be STRANGE TOO so now you’re breathing through your nose and you can’t look them in the eye so you QUICKLY AND UNNATURALLY LOOK AWAY LIKE THE VERY SIGHT OF THEM DISGUSTED YOU and now every inch of your face feels vaguely out of place and Forced and you have no choice but to leave the conversation immediately

[hotmessmaxpress]

max verstappen being my favorite f1 driver… alexander rossi being my favorite indycar driver… i am discovering my type is apparently autistic men who drive fast

[threnodians]

my irl bestie came over today and i just had markiplier’s re7 playthrough playing on my tv in the background and after a while she noticed and was like “who is this” and i told her and she said “do you know him? do you talk to him?” sbdjsbdjsj the way i burst out laughing like girl i wish i could because we have an extremely similar sense of humor and also he is attractive af so i had to tell her that he’s like. a professional gamer on youtube. like, big time.

i don’t know how she and i are friends, she hasn’t ever really had an online presence and she’s never heard of livejournal or quizilla or neopets etc (she’s only two years older than me) and every time i realize that she is like my complete opposite i just have to sit there for a minute and. process.

i trust this woman with my life and she doesn’t even know what fanfiction is nor has she ever picked up a controller 🤯

[bloopsalot]

the issue with being ace and autistic and also in a long distance relationship is I have no idea what an irl neurotypical date looks like

[aruban-spaceshuttle]

Just completed the Happiness moment from Step 3 DLC with my graphics on high 💪😎 (I went to the aquarium on a field trip)

[bmpmp3]

I NEEED to go back to making art that makes it ABUNDANTLY clear that theres something wrong with my brain BUT NOT in a cool or stylishly interesting way. i need to do it in a way that makes people say "hm." and walk away

[sakitenmaenjoyer]

more inverse au. these posts are just me talking to myself but it's okay lmfao

since inverse au is supposed to be an inverse of prsk canon, i realized maybe all of wxs pretends that they're 'normal' 💀 since in canon almost everyone knows they're fucking weird. it's not mafuyu-cation; they still know who they are (mostly). they just don't show it to people.

the spectrum of 'hiding who i actually am' is:

rui - faked the charming schtick so much that he actually thinks that's his personality (self delusion)

nene - plays into being a 'cool girl' (like an) when she's actually a haughty anime girl (proud of being popular for a 'character' she's playing 💀)

tsukasa - king of idgaf island (he's self obsessed with his image)

emu - lets people assume she's painfully shy/doesn't want to talk when in actuality she's just Watching. (people don't talk to her, but when they do, it's like they're talking to a five year old. she lets them think what they want to.)

[trainingdummyrabbit]

:) i have fought the fossils.

[blueslight]

Man

[revenblue]

#like im certainly not ever accepting an interpretation of perry like 'secretly hed really like to be able to talk' because its#never ever been communicated. like the idea that heinz wd prefer if perry was human. its just not in the show. the opposite is true in fact

Yeah, I agree with both of these.

I've always seen Perry as not being comfortable with words in the first place this includes sign language btw, and Heinz being the first person who's okay with that and who makes an effort to understand his thoughts anyway so Perry doesn't need to use words. They've found something that works for them, that's what matters (and is why their relationship works at all imo).

And it really does make a difference to how I perceive and write him, and how I write their communication. (That and my Opinions™ about paragraphing >.> Namely that body language should count as "dialogue" for paragraphing purposes, ie when to start a new paragraph.)

I also feel like Heinz likes that Perry's a platypus. I mean, he's not human either. :P

And when you look at a list of Heinz's friends and close acquaintances... most of them are not human. (Only Charlene and Dr Diminutive are. Compare to Perry, Peter, Balloony, the ocelots, his pet cockroach Hoarfrost, that can of oven cleaner...)

i haint watched the dang chibisode and idk if ill actually watch it with sound on sdfjk but i have a hurt feeling about them casually imbuing perry with speech for a one off gag because the idea that he needs to talk to communicate is fake. we had 4 seasons of wacky magic hijinks cartoon where perry never needed verbal speech to communicate. they couldve done this gag at any point in the show but they didn't, and the fact that they didn't felt significant. perry's muteness is such a core part of his character, to me, to the way i conceive of him/write him. i don't wanna overreact to a goofy little side cartoon (even tho i'm doing it anyway) but it's still the characters, and it still upsets me! ok that's it i've said my piece

[skeleton-monarch]

oh my god some of y’all really do think all your autistic symptoms are universal autistic experiences. half the posts i see on here are “i don’t actually struggle, others just don’t understand me. obviously autistic people are just misunderstood” and i’m sitting here like. no. i struggle with that. i’m not being misunderstood. i genuinely cannot grasp that concept, it’s not the other way around.

[hyperlexichypatia]

I am begging Mental Health Culture to stop broadening the definition of "self-harm." If you want a term to convey the concept you're trying to express, may I suggest bringing back the term "bad habit"? "Self-harm" is grounds for involuntary commitment. Do you want people to get involuntarily committed for spending too much time on the internet before bed or volunteering for too many projects? No? Then don't give coercive psychiatry ammunition by broadening the usage of their coercive terminology! When I first started out in the Mad liberation advocacy movement, one of the arguments we made against involuntary commitment and coercive intervention for "self-harm" was that neurotypical people do things that are "bad for them" all the time, like playing football, smoking tobacco, or eating candy, and they still have the bodily autonomy right to make those "unhealthy" choices. The point was to highlight the double standard that some people were denied rights because of doing things that were allegedly "bad for them," while other people were allowed the dignity of risk and freedom to choose. Our point was "The neurodivergent/Mad person picking her skin should have the same right to bodily autonomy as the neurotypical person dancing ballet, even though both are doing things to their bodies that could be described as 'bad for them.'" The argument was that neither should be pathologized. Current discourse would pathologize both, as well as even more variations on human behavior. That's a big step backwards. "But it's only self-harm if it has certain emotional motivations" -- let me stop you right there. Coercive psychiatry does not ask us what our emotional motivations are. It dictates to us what our emotional motivations are, and increases the coercion if we disagree with it (because disagreeing with their assessments of our emotional state is also A Symptom). Do you think the Parental Surveillance Industrial Complex is going to listen to their children before following through on moral panic articles about how parents should take away their children's hobbies because they're "self-harm"? Don't ascribe good faith to coercive psychiatry, because coercive psychiatry doesn't ascribe good faith to you.

[icannotgetoverbirds]

men will call themselves himbos and then go make several spreadsheets for a project that they're not even getting paid for

[somanyjacks]

Calling my neurospicy/ADHD/autistic siblings with a question:

How do you walk for fun/exercise?

Personally, I've realized that I actually hate walking? For decades I've been trying to force myself to enjoy going for a quick walk around the block because every piece of advice about physical and mental health says "just go for a walk 😊 it's fun and relaxing 😊 anyone can do it 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊"

BUT IT IS NEITHER FUN NOR RELAXING??!?

I present to you the following:

Every window you walk past has the potential for one or more sets of eyes. EYES THAT COULD BE PERCEIVING YOU.*

Hot. Cold. Rain. Wind. Allergies. Insects. INSECTS THAT FOLLOW YOU (fucking horseflies ugh)

Choices must be made. What clothes to wear? No you can't wear the shorts you're wearing because the thighs ride up. Go change. A hat?? Hats look dumb but counterpoint: sun is murdering your eyes. And shoes?!? WHICH SOCKS ARE RIGHT AND PREVENT BLISTERS BUT AREN'T TOO HOT ANSWER ME THIS

Chronic pain????????????

Okay I'm walking, I'm walking, look at the pavement, don't trip over that drainage grate, don't stumble on the loose gravel, god this is so freaking boring ah shit I rolled my ankle on the pavement did anyone see?? Why didn't I wear headphones but headphones are bad because I'm supposed to be enjoying nature™ and if I wear them I can't hear electric cars and I might get in an accident SHIT I rolled my ankle AGAIN

SO HOW DO YOU DO IT??? Are there tips and tricks? Do you just... not walk? Use a treadmill?? How do you make the treadmill not soul-suckingly boring????

(PLEASE no neurotypicals clowning on this post with any "advice" -- your statements have already been noted and accepted into the record. Autistic/ADHD rebuttals are what is being sought here thanks.)

*Do NOT give me that 'no one is looking at you' BS -- YES THEY ARE. I know this because I watch people walking by, and so does my mom and half the neighborhood.