#allistic people can reblog

[rosiemaedhbh]

Any other trans autists have issues with their name / all names?

No matter how many names i try, nothing fits, and i thought it was gender, but i think it may be autism, because I realise i dont like others names either! I cannot hear a name (or a pronoun for that matter) and connect it to a person, they will always feel wrong. If im talking about a person i can and do use their name, but talking to or around them i will constantly avoid their name because names make me feel icky.

For example, talking about my friend T i will say "yeah T did this" but to her itll be "hey...hey....you! *poke*" rather than "hey T". Or if there's multiple ill say "can you do this.....no that you, not you you" no names or gendered pronouns just "you" because i HATE names and pronouns.

My mother i will never call "mum" because that feels like a name whereas "mother" is a title

And for me? My name is Harrison but I go by Sonny because it's a nickname not my name. I have disconnected entirely from Harrison despite having chosen it and liking it and feeling like i suit it, its just an ick to hear someone say my name.

My birthname was Lily and I hear that and want to be sick or cry, because i hate it, i think thats the combo of the autism name hate and gender dysphoria.

And pronouns? I dont like she/her because it feels like im being seen as female so i dont use it that one is gender related dysphoria i think. But i also dont like he/him or they/them because while gender wise its correct theyre so....personal? Id rather be called it or that or a xenopronoun or Sonny or something. I go by it/they/he because i feel validated when someone uses they, it feels like they see me as not a woman, and he because it feels like they see me as a man or at least very masculine and i LOVE that, but its after they in order of preference because it typically feels fake when people use it for me, because no one truly sees me as male often. And IT is my favourite. No personal. Not even human! It is wonderful, i love being treated as just an "it". Im a freak and a gremlin and yeah im a person but that feels icky i dont want to be, i think that's autism because i feel so different from allistic people who are the majority of humans that i feel nonhuman. My species is autistic. Freak. Thing. Gremlin. It. I like to be called it or that thing. I also enjoy xeno pronouns because it still feels non human but related to me more specifically. I like it more than xenos but I enjoy xenos as well.

Anyway, TLDR: do any other autistic people feel disconnected from their name and pronouns as well as other peoples names and pronouns, due to their autism? And if you are autistic and transgender, how do you tell the difference and how do you pick a name for yourself?

Please do answer in tags/reblogs and also feel free to add on to anything said. Thank you.

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Which controversial ship is the best

Explanations under the cut!

Galadriel/Halbrand (Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power) 60 reblogs - 5614 words total.

I didn't read it but it's something about homophobia and racism and misogyny if you like or dislike the ship, i'm not sure which one.

Katara/Aang (Avatar The Last Airbender) 58 comments - 65 reblogs - 796 words.

The arguing actually happened on the Katara/Zuko poll, but it was about this ship. Mostly Zutara shippers complaining about Kataang shippers but i saw maybe 2 kataang shippers in the comments. I repeat: Kataang is on here because it was incredibly controversial on my blog

Laios/Toshiro (Dungeon Meshi) A few comments and reblogs, 228 words out of what I can count + someones 644 word post that was linked to me.

The reason for this is because I jokingly used the tag "shuro has the worst case of allistic disease i've ever seen", because the way he exploded at Laios reminded me of the experiences i've had with allistic people who secretly hate me but never told me. This means I hate asian people and think only white men can be autistic.

Shiro/Keith (Voltron: Legendary Defender) 43 comments

This ship is pseudo-incest and a man grooming a teenager because they met when Keith was an unspecified younger age and Shiro was an unspecified older age. I'm gonna pass away

Zim/Dib (Invader Zim) A few comments and an ask but it stopped quickly

I haven't watched Invader Zim, but I allowed it on the premise that Zim is seen as a child (because I don't like adult/child ships obv). But Zim's age is a big debate.

Yugi Mutou/Yami Yugi (Yu-Gi-Oh) Many reblogs saying the same thing about me

I haven't watched the anime. I saw the same guy twice with the same name and tagged it as "selfcest" incase someone had the tag filtered. This singular tag caused multiple comments and reblogs telling me that it's not selfcest and that it's offensive to DID systems to call it selfcest. I almost snapped here, honestly.

Time to vote! Explode my notes if you want, there's multiple good choices to pick from.

[sir--crow]

🫵 SUMMONING FELLOW AUTISTIC PEOPLE 🙌

Autistic college student here 🫡

would anyone be interested if I posted a quiz for my research paper?

I'm writing a term paper that explores the Autistic Language Community. Here are some of the subjects I'll probably be covering:

how social bias against autistic people has impacted language acquisition from a young age.

how autistic peoples' language differs from Allistics'.

How masking impacts language in adults (mimicry, language suppression)

How the Autistic Language Community varies, such as hyper verbal people and non verbal people.

How the physical effects of being autistic impacts language (going nonverbal due to meltdowns)

Tone and speed of speech.

Misunderstandings of metaphors, taking language literally, or delivering language literally (the social perception of being blunt)

How Autistic and neurodiverse people created tone markers in text (/s, /j)

Body language of Autistic people (eye contact, stimming, being open or closed off, not "paying attention")

How biases and language ideologies have impacted the Autistic Language Community, and Autistic people as a whole.

I know that might be a lot (it has to be a 15+ page paper, keep that in mind) but as I research this subject I'll be trimming down and focusing on highlighted subjects as I go.

The quiz would be an assortment of questions relating to the subjects above. Such as, "do you agree or disagree with this statement" "do you have experiences with this subject" "what are your thoughts on this", essentially agree-disagree questions (like personality quizzes), word questions, and maybe more? I would love to hear your guy's thoughts on it, both from a subjective stance and personal stance. I'll be using my own personal experience for this as well.

Also please note that these are questions with the intention of gaining data and perspective, not questions that have an exact answer. Nobody is incorrect, there will be no incorrect answers. Everyone's answers may be different, and that's completely fine!

The option of being quoted, either openly or anonymously, is completely up to you. I'll have a question at the end asking for permission, so know that you have options. you can take this quiz and completely opt out of being mentioned at all!

Mainly, I want to write this paper with the perspectives of adult autistic people. There are so many papers on autistic children and not adults that it baffles me... I mean those children will grow up and become adults, autism doesn't vanish.

So, if you're interested, let me know in the comments or reblog! Also, if you have any ideas about this subject or think I'm lacking in knowledge about something within this subject, I would be happy to hear from you. Especially if you think I'm approaching a subject from the wrong perspective, I still have a lot to learn which is why I'm writing this.

Thank you for your time if you've read all of this, I appreciate it! Any feedback is truly appreciated.

Thank you!!!<3 :)

[itsaspectrumcomic]

hiya, i have a doubt. i was diagnosed as neurodivergent but not autistic or adhd. i have primary complex motor steryotypy, sensory, and understanding other peoples feelings issues. i really relate to what u say on here even tho im not on autistic spectrum. is it ok for neurodivergent allistic people to we-blog?

Hi! Yes of course, anyone can reblog my posts, whether you relate or just want to spread awareness :) Being autistic or neurodivergent is not a requirement!

[infiniteglitterfall]

Please note, for the purposes of this poll:

Don't post judgments in the notes. (Of people who vote a particular way, of autistics, of whomstever.)

Allistic means non-autistic.

If you're not sure which you are (e.g. you're sure you're allistic, but autistic people keep insisting you're not): I personally think watching this video and seeing whether you tend to be guided by your beliefs, or by new information, is a good quick test.

Nobody can see how you responded. Even I can't see individual responses.

(Unless you say something in a reply/reblog. Everyone can see replies/reblogs, just like on any other post.)

No blame attaches, as my friend @siriosa always says. Your response does not indicate any other opinions about anything. This is not a test. Nor is it secretly a larger question.

It is ESPECIALLY not a test to see which group is more moral, ethical, or politically aware.

I'm just curious about how the information we have access to, and the community discourse around it, plays out if you separate autistic and allistic people. Probably it doesn't, and this is not a scientific study, but I wanna ask.

[badlifedecisionshotline]

☆-《HI Intro-post!》-☆

The crossroad board!! Still work in progress! Feel free to suggest topics and other such things for me to reasurch <3 My inbox/asks are always open

《Im Evesul -collective name (now for just one alter) = (a DID system) and this is our main blog regarding religion and witchcraft!》

Pronouns are fluid: but i mostly feel Male, so feel free to assume as such

I have been a witch for 2 years! So far i have worshipped: Loki, Hecate, Satan, Apollon and now Evine & Bendis [lesser known new god with Dacian origin + one with barely any information about (I'll provide information on him eventualy on my blog!)] -A little bit info on Ev

I love nature deeply, and im always cautious that i rispect the spirits! Sometimes just jumping around like im having an explosion of energy or just quietly walk around, exploring in silence. Its like an on and off switch, no in-betweens XD

My main is generaly for anything and everything i find cool, support (sometimes politics, sometimes art, people, lgbtq things)- this one will focus on witchcraft and paganism (or at least try to XD)

Speaking of which, I am a queer and lgbtqia+ person myself. So homophobes, transphobes aren't welcome. I also have a friend who believes was a spirit that's half animalistic in a past life (or multiple) and i support every kind of therianthropy there is. (Becouse the term is quite literally turning into an umbrella term recently)

I also support: shifters, age/pet regressors, POC people, xenogender, neopronouns, Women in general due to mysoginy and any opressed group

The block button is a good friend of mine, so if you hate any criteria mentioned or something else, I'll add in the future on this list, i will block you

《On a similar note but partially kindly- Wicca isn't fully welcome》

• Yes, i know your community and religion can change and be different over time. This is why my opinion might change. I dont have a problem with it due to its age, but due to the fact that whilst reasurching , i *felt* my Diety get physically repulsed at the mention. Which is enough for me not to feel comfortable around the topic.

—Feel free to tell me sources in comments or reblogs or your own experience, good and bad. And know i won't try to invalidate them, im open to learning about it first, a lot, before my opinion can become rigid.

If you're a person uncapable of not acting like a toddler and reblog against it, and every other sentence starts with talking shit about it— you're blocked. I dont need to try reason with a child with bad manners that mommy never thought them.

《Same for Wiccans who dont want to admit its problematic origins (ehem... Gardener was buddies with a famous Allister.. And no, i didn't mean from Hazbin hotel)》

~Much love, Ev <3

My oath to myself -wrote when sleepy ok? Keep that in mind (topic: forgotten gods)

Creator of the used deviders!

[mrghostrat]

i was hoping to stream this afternoon but i woke with my shoulders hurting so bad that i have absolutely zero capacity for anything. to the point where i experienced my first autistic rumbles in the supermarket 🥸 but i have adhd meds now so maybe we can try tomorrow.

zita's suspected i'm on the spectrum for a little while now, but i've always been on the fence about it. there's a lot i don't relate to. but most of that is bc i have so much learned behaviour, and i mask really well. when i try to break down how i think for autism diagnostic quizzes, my gut reactions DO fit the bill, but they are so so so buried under 30 years of life experience that feels like it comes naturally.

but i am an introvert. an extreme introvert. even while living alone with my best friend, who i get on perfectly with and feel zero need to mask around, i still need to excuse myself and be left alone in my room from 10pm at LEAST.

so i only really unmask when i'm dead alone. even though i dont feel like i'm putting up any kind of front around of zita, i still do, automatically. the only time i see myself completely bare is when i'm alone and it's silent and there is absolutely nothing challenging my comfort.

sooooo hoooooo boy waking up in pain, with zero capacity to even finish a thought, still empty of ADHD medication because of the fuckin manufacturing shortage (thankfully today's trip into town was to finally pick some up! but that wasn't until noon), i got to see a side of myself i don't know if i've ever actually seen before? maybe as a kid but i can't remember specifically that far back?

i've been short tempered and overwhelmed and exposed to sensory nightmares whilst home alone before, but it's usually so quick bc i'm at HOME and i can adjust the situation and i never think much of it. i felt like a bluescreen at that supermarket today, popping in for less than 10 things across 3 aisles.

it was so busy. there were so many people. i felt dread just to walk through it, so aware of my own body and the space i had to inhabit. but par for the course so far. what was less par for the course was having to stop and look at my list every 3 steps, unable to put together a course of action in my head: chicken is on the far left, so we grab that first and get broccoli on our way to the soup aisle. but the broccoli is right there. do i grab that first, go get the chicken, but then double back from where i just came? i might get myself some bananas too, how do i fit that into my path—

i had to keep stopping and looking at my list because every item i thought of made me forget the previous one i just looked at. eventually got fed up with myself and went to the closest thing and started there, regardless of whether i'd have to double back or not. that's what trips me when i take these quizzes n shit. i can get over the hump and do the task in the end, so that must mean i'm totally allistic! no autism here.

i remember thinking "jesus christ this is bad" when i was on my way to get zita's soup (if you've read this far, thank you and kisses to you, pls send some loving vibes to zita by reading her fic i just reblogged, bc she's got a cold and is miserable today) so i was kinda aware i was having a bad sensory day. as expected: there were a lot of people there, and i was in pain. but i just short circuited looking at soup. zita gave me the brand name and soup type of 3 cans she wanted. and i went to the aisle i've been to a thousand times, found the brand, and just stared. it was all stew. all chunky brothy things with bits in. not a single creamy soup in sight, so, the soup must be somewhere else.

i came to that conclusion immediately but i couldn't. process it? or like, what to do with that information. the soup is somewhere else. OR IS IT? keep looking at this shelf to make sure, your eyes are tired, you might've missed it. there's like 20 different cans of campbells here, just keep reading them left to right until soup appears. still no soup? read them again, you might've missed it. maybe campbell's is out of soup? read every other brand here until you Don't see soup, then you can walk away and try somewhere else. but if you don't see any soup, read it again because you might've missed it.

thankfully it took all of 30 fuckin seconds for a store employee who was shelving next to me to see my glazed fuckin stare and ask if i needed a hand with anything. and i stammered through some "haha my silly eyes today!! haha thanks! sorry, thank you!" as she happily pointed like 3 metres down the aisle for me, while my internal monologue immediately raged like "wtf why would they put the soup that far away but also barely far away at all, what's the point, bad design 😡"

got soup. check list: packet of gravy. zita told me the gravy was in the same section as the soup. it was not. i walked up and down that aisle five times and there was no gravy. i just. i had completely forgotten how to problem solve. it was the strangest, most frustrating experience. like i was looking at an empty word document in my brain, with a little flashing cursor and everything, so i knew it hadn't frozen over. it was just empty.

i even had the thought "just walk up and down the aisles until you find gravy; you have to do this all the time" and even had ideas of which aisles to start with. but my brain said no. we're not going to walk around aimlessly, even if we have a neat little structure and path to follow. we were told (by myself, too) this would be a quick in out trip, pluck the known items off the shelf and beeline straight for the checkout. so meandering down aisles was for some reason non negotiable. i wasn't in a rush. i had nothing to do today. i barely even felt a rush to get out of there, as busy as it was. it just wasn't an option.

so rather than start solving that problem i just jumped to the next thing on the list. strepsils. text to ask what kind she wants, have a whine about my broken brain, ask if she knows where the gravy is. remember when i pass the hair brushes that i broke my hairbrush this morning and need a new one!! oh and i've been wanting new hairclips too. look at me picking a new hairbrush and poking through the hairclips for one that i know will feel comfortable against my scalp, i'm not autistic because i can change my plans and make decisions on the fly.

oops didn't mean for this post to be an entire play by play of my thoughts through this extremely bland grocery shop. i cannot believe how long i stood there choosing soup. the line at the self checkout was so long and i felt the dread kick up again. barely/silently whispered "oh god" to myself when i realised the line, but repeated it about 20 times to feel the tap of my tongue against the roof of my mouth before i realised i was doing it. stop that, don't mutter to yourself. but i'm standing still in a line and there's nothing left to (ineffectually) problem solve, so the second i stop i notice a weird little slice in the plastic around the trolley handle that i can't stop flicking my thumbnail against.

OK. we need to stim. heard, chef. just click your piercing ffs. your mouth might look weird when you do it but at least everyone can see you're just clicking your teeth against your piercing, rather than talking to yourself or damaging public property.

something made a noise, can't even remember if it was a child or a trolley or what, some loud sharp single high pitched screech a few metres away, and i jolted so hard i thought i felt like i was going to throw up. finally think, fucking hell i'm autistic today. my back hurts. which is making my head hurt. i want to go home and take my vyvanse.

[the-crafty-unicorn]

"Hi...! I'm CraftyCorn! Wanna help me with my painting? :)"

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Last Edit: February 9th (Changed some favorite Crafty pictures to new official ones)

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[Hello there! I'm Mod Tune! Pleasure to meet you all! I'll be running this blog to go with the other Smiling Critters!! Just know, this character is not mine and belongs to the creators of Poppy Playtime!! All art comes from there, too, but I will be making my own as well as fanart and reaction images!!]

[This ask blog currently consists of both Craftycorn and Bigger Craftycorn, as well as BB Crafty's mini critters! So go ahead and shoot any of them some asks! Crafty has her own tags while both BB Crafty and the mini critters share some tags. All of my designs for the characters here are all underneath the cut at the end of the main things on this post, so check those out!]

[This blog will include topics such as depression, loss of sanity, swearing (mostly from mod), harmful thoughts, some acts of violence, and few other topics I cannot name at the time. Interact at your own risk, you have been warned]

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RULES OF THE BLOG!

1. No inappropriate asks! This is a PG-13 blog!

2. Some violent asks are okay, like basic acts to harm her, but please just do not go overboard with them. As in, do not graphically explain them or have it result in missing limbs. It hurts to read.

3. Ask me before involving me in anything! I've been having issues with this for a few days now, and I need to finally bring it up.

4. No forced roleplaying! Aka, don't narrate my characters for me! Please! I've had one or two asks/reblogs like this, and it really doesn't make me motivated to answer them! Roleplaying characters means I play my characters, and you play yours, don't decide what my characters do for me.

5. Don't spam my inbox/notes often. I have a life outside of this blog, so if I don't answer asks or reblogs, I need you to be patient with me.

6. Do not judge me for my headcanons, roleplay threads, or what friends I have here. It's a very cruel thing to judge, and I'd rather you not.

7. Please, don't steal/repost my art. It may not be much compared to other artists, but I'd like my art to stay my own. Please and thank you.

8. Magic anons are okay!! You're allowed to send them as long as I can understand them and they make sense for the Poppy Playtime universe

9. This is an extension of rule 5. I'm not obligated to answer every ask, so if I don't answer something, please don't repeatedly send things asking for me to answer. You can remind me of an ask, yes, but for most asks I don't answer, they either make me uncomfortable, are from someone/about someone I don't wish to associate myself with, or I can't figure out any type of response.

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"Normal speech"

Thinking!! Hmmm...

"YELLING!!!!"

"Shh... quiet..."

-Lights, camera, ACTION!-

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The other Smiling Critters!! [GO FOLLOW THE OTHER COOL PEOPLE 🫵]

Dogday (big & small) - @that-sunny-pup (both) & @dogday-shines-bright

Kickin' - @the-cool-chicken

Bubba - @bubba-bubbaphant & @bubbathe-bubbaphant

Hoppy - @hoppyhopscotch1 & @bunny-go-hop-hop

Bobby - @lil-miss-bearhug & @bearhugs-from-bobby

Picky - @picky-piggy

Catnap (big & small) - @acat-foryournap & @catnaplovesnaptime

[And here are the Nightmare Critters!!!]

Baba - @baba-chops-emo-sheep

Rabie - @rabie-baby-bat

Simon - @simon-the-dragon

Allister - @allister-the-procrastigator

Poe - @poe-the-crow

[Mod's HC design of the girl:]

[My bigger body Crafty design!]

[My mini critters' designs!!]

[My favorite Crafty art!]

[gmax-terror]

🕸️ Hi... I'm Allister...! I'm fourteen, and I'm one of the gym leaders of Stow-on-Side, along with my friend Bea! I really like ghost types...!

🕸️ I can speak to ghosts and ghost Pokémon... would rather not get into why...

🕸️ DNI if you think ghost types are evil or malicious for no real reason... I don't want to talk to people like that.

🕸️ I do accept asks, but I get kinda nervous so sorry if the replies take a long time or are kinda short...

OOC

Tags (IC)

# spooky stories 🕸️ - general posts

# allister answers 🕸️ - asks

# ghosts! 👻 - answering/interacting w/ ghosts and ghost type pokemon

Tags (OOC)

# evil bitch art - my art

# evil bitch yaps - ooc textpost

Tags (AU)

# i thought i could only speak with ghost types! 👻 - non ghost talking pokemon/PMD characters

# you're not a ghost! - human ocs

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CW: Discussions of trauma may pop up due to the nature of the character. This will not come up unless asked directly, and will be tagged appropriately.

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This blog is post canon by default!! This Allister is mostly canon with a few headcanons (transmasc, uses he/she pronouns).

When interacting with canon character/oc blogs, I'll tag their name.

I'm very open to being involved in other people's AUs and interacting with ocs, but I will tag them as such.

Both the mod and the muse are minors!! Absolutely no NSFW. I'm Neil, I go by she/her pronouns, and my main blog is @evilbitchartist.

Gifs made with blinkies.cafe!

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Associated blogs under the cut!!

Associated Blogs:

Owned by Me:

@evilbitchartist - main blog

@evilbitchrps - roleplay hub

Owned by Others:

Canon Characters:

None yet!

OCs:

None yet!

If you wish to have your RP blog added here, just send me an ask! It's preferable that you have a pinned intro post, and you HAVE to have one if it's an OC blog. I'll reblog your intro post if you have one, and add your RP blog to the list. I allow multiples of canon characters!!

[loki-zen]

this is an incredibly long thread containing (to my mind) a mixture of useful advice and likely-unhelpful prompts for overthinking, which is why I’ve not reblogged the whole thing, but i think these are useful takeaways:

If you are the infodumping type, and find that this doesn’t always play well in social situations (a problem that is not limited to cases in which the infodumper is autistic and the person who might react poorly to being infodumped at is NT!), it can be helpful to say something like ‘would you like to hear some shark facts?’ or similar. People can, for a lot of different reasons, find it affronting and/or difficult to deal with when you launch into explaining facts to them without a warning or giving them a choice - or an opportunity to establish their level of knowledge about sharks!

When you have an impulse to explain things, you may run the risk of making people feel as if you assume they know less about a subject than you do. Asking questions to establish their level of knowledge can help, and also give them an opportunity to participate in the conversation.

People can feel steamrollered if they don’t have the opportunity to contribute equal talking time to a conversation. Exceptions where this would be considered normal usually involve a power or knowledge hierarchy - for instance, non-experts listening to what an expert has to say. As a result, taking up too much of the talking time can feel like an attempt to claim dominance/expert status and reduce the other person/people to the status of learners or subordinates.

With people you know well, the solution will be unique to the pair or group of you. Some autistic people (and others) enjoy mutual infodumping or listening to infodumping. Some autistic people absolutely share the instinctive unpleasant-feeling responses attributed to ‘allistics’ in the linked thread! There can also be competing access needs issues.

[transthaumaturge]

I heard something interesting today, which is that a lot of autistic people are the Meyers-Briggs personality type INFJ. It got me interested, because I'm autistic and I tested as INFJ when I took the test! I even just retook it to check. I feel called out lol

I don't put a lot of stock in personality tests, but I'm really curious to see whether this is accurate and decided to bring it to the gay trans autistic webbed site.

A link to a site where you can take the Meyers-Briggs test online is at the bottom, and so is a description of the INFJ personality type. Just make sure to take your results with a grain of salt, personality tests are interesting but a large part of them is bunk science.

So without further ado,

Link to take the Meyers-Briggs personality test:

Link to a description of the INFJ personality profile:

Please reblog this to boost it so we can get better results!

[mish-mash-marsh]

Some polls to see color association differences between autistic and non-autistic (allistic) individuals

You're currently on the autistic poll, (which you can see down below) which only autistic folks should answer /// this link is to the allistic poll: allistic poll

reblog for larger sample size! (science!!! :D)

[irequirealobotomy]

We need to stop saying neurodivergent when we mean autistic and ADHD.

We need to stop saying neurodivergent kids when we mean imaginative or creative kids.

We need to stop saying neurodivergent when we mean bullied.

We need to stop saying neurodivergent when we mean curious.

We need to stop saying neurodivergent when we mean particular.

Yes, all of these things are tied to autism and ADHD and similar disorders, but they’re are non-neurodivergent people with these traits. I can’t count how many times my non-ADHD allistic friends (and tested for both!) have asked “Hey I relate to this but I’m not ND, can I still like/reblog/retweet this?”

Stop saying neurodivergent IS these things. Sure, tag it as “autism” or “ADHD”, if you think people with these disorders would relate. But if we expect neurotypicals to change their language for us we need to expect ourselves to include them.

[teenidleadultgirl]

ive reblogged two posts today discussing how autistics are not immune to being annoyed by other autistics and im making connections to how autism is othered by society, like even the language of "neurotype" others autism as this "different" way of thinking from allistics but like if you look at the community of allistics, they all think differently from one another. why is it that autism is the only neurotype that it is assumed we all act the same way (ableism is the answer)???? a lot of the tomfoolery can be stopped if we realized that autistic people, like any other neurotype, are individuals who will behave differently and contradictory to one another like every other community of humans because we are all different fucking people.

[cjslenderboss]

"List 5 things that make you happy then put this in the ask box for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals! <3" yeah hi-

Well I can't do that second half cuz basically no one reblogs from me

Anyways, 5 things that make me happy huh?

Well let's start with the biggest one, just seeing my friends generally in a good mood. Shows me that they're doing good despite how the world is nowadays.

Secondly, I guess gaming as cliche as it sounds. Generally just hopping onto a game or two and completing it before moving on is a simple but effective means of enjoyment.

Thirdly....probably writing, given yesterday I got a decent amount of progress into TFS (sequel to my CotL fic/AU) and considering other stuff to write about.

Fourth.....uhhh, guessing music can go here, whether it be something like TDG, FFDP, or one of the mirad of Game OSTs or remixes I listen to (looking at you Zelda).

Fifth....hmm, guess my kitties can go here, always being there for me to mentally recharge my mind after a day of work, especially Allister who's often on my bed, meowing at me as soon as I get home.

Also, Potato, I don't bite lol, so don't be so nervous to send a ask or hell, DM me (even if it's through Tumblr and not something like Discord). I'm generally open to talking for the most part.

[selectivechaos]

Hello again! I have some thoughts on the post where you mentioned how it could be detrimental for people to think of autistic mutism and selective mutism as the same thing. I think that's what you were saying anyway?

This is something that has actually happened to me all my life so I agree that selective mutism and its connection to anxiety is really important. For as long as I can remember, I've had my mutism explained away as me being 'probably autistic' even though I've never actually been diagnosed. And that's never done anything to help me. It's only when the anxiety started taking over the rest of my life that it was recognised as anxiety and then I could actually understand what was happening to me. I just wish I'd been given that information earlier. But on the other hand, I know sometimes autism can be misdiagnosed as anxiety which is unhelpful as well. So really, we all suffer from people confusing the two.

Also, I'm kind of hurt that you seem to think allistic selective mutes don't matter or something? I don't know if I am autistic but my mutism is still disabling.

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hey 🌵anon! yeah your experiences are similar to mine in relation to people assuming i’m probably autistic. and i don’t know if i’m autistic or not because things are complicated and am trans in the uk.

i definitely do think allistic selective mutes matter. but did phrase it badly. i said something like “and i know it’s like, why should we care about them?”

so when i was saying this in the reblog i was trying to make it clear that by me pointing out that allistic selective mutes exist, i wasn’t trying to argue that the term should be absolutely gatekept from autistic people; it shouldn’t be seen as an allistic term or something only allistics have. because many times people say you can’t have both, which is bullshit.

i feel like there’s on the one hand people who reduce sm to an ‘autistic trait’. and on the other hand people who believe you can’t have sm and autism.

this stuff confuses me and i didn’t mean to disregard allistic selectively mute folk.

sm can be really disabling and i hope all selective mutes have a good day. you’re all really strong and wonderful. 🌹🌹