#autism is cool

[yumkandie]

this pony is full of tism :3

[hestiablessed]

ok so i’m watching cars 2 (i work in a daycare it’s nap time) and mater straight up uses the powers of autism to solve the crime!?! Right!?!!? so mater is obviously autistic, but he uses( more so that finn mcmissle thinks he does) the fact that he doesn’t understand social cues as a cover. like the scene with the lemon meeting and mater is disguised as ivan and he’s talking to the one body guard. Also don’t even get me started on the lemon cars being an allegory?? metaphor??? for disabled people… Also the pattern recognition which you can see at the end when he confronts sir axelrod, and the special interest which is the reason he’s in this mess because the spies signal is a fact and not just a random sentence which is just dumb.

Anyway all this to say autism is cool and cars 2 is the best cars movie

[scooge]

autistic people have a biological advantage at super puzzle fighter 2

[xenogenderbunnykid]

is this relatable

brain: do i have autism?? 

people: ugh stop focusing on whether you have it or not you just have PTSD which is why you never make eye contact or talk to people and your special interests are nothing and it was normal to stop having friends because you only cared about one thing at a time and you can still understand social cues and it’s normal to be like this you’re normal. You have sensory issues but whatever. 

brain: but... i relate to autistic people... a little too much...? 

people: *misinformation about autism*

brain: um... cool. anyway, I will now spend continue to spend every waking hour thinking about transformers except at school where I will instead wonder if I am faking autism!

people: why do you want a diagnosis so much??

brain: *unable to articulate*

[emilnikos]

I need non autistic people to realise meltdowns are a real debilitating thing that has a serious effect on your mental and physical health NOWWWWW!!! The way its been trivialized and lessened pisses me the fuck off. It's not a tantrum and it doesn't come from "being too weak-willed" it's painful and it's embarrassing AND MOST OF ALL IT'S INVOLUNTARY!! Don't claim to be an ally to autistic or disabled people and then make fun of people who have meltdowns. Literally get the hell out of my sight

[xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx]

the mobile phone museum is a online museum featuring over 2000 types of old and funky phones that’s amazing for seeing old phones and getting info about them for stuff like writing/art or just because they’re so cool and i love them look at them

behold! some of my favourite silly creatures :3

[unicornpopcorn14]

So we all know by now that Dazai is comfortable enough around Chuuya to show nervousness/worry.

Enough times for Chuuya to pick up on that pattern. The pattern, may I remind you, that doesn't have evident correlation to either nervousness or worry to most people. One that can even be interpreted as misplaced given the situation.

Which means that Dazai has done this in front of Chuuya so often, that Chuuya at first was hella confused, before he finally made a connection between when and why it happens. And still remembered that connection after four years of separation. Which gets us to my point:

What if this isn't the only emotion Dazai displays weirdly?

What if he has multiple unconventional patterns he displays for sadness, frustration, content, or disgust? The times he really feels them, and they become too strong for him to just deal with normally? What if these are the only times he's actually being genuine with his emotions?

And Chuuya is the only one who is familiar with them all?

Dazai would be jumping rope and Chuuya would be like, "quit sulking, let's get icecream"

Dazai hanging upside down on the couch and Chuuya going, "It's okay, mackerel. You can cry."

Dazai actually crying, full on heart-wrenching sobs, and Chuuya unironically going, "What, good news?"

It's just... comforting, for one person in Dazai's life to read him like a book. Everyone else would look at him like he's crazy, displaying wrong emotions/behaviors at the wrong time, but Chuuya knows that it's just how he processes feeling properly, and thus he's the only one Dazai can count on to put things into context and understand, which makes him display them even more openly.

Because Chuuya never shamed him for his quirks, as much as Dazai never did his.

[inkskinned]

even 2 years ago people still said autism with a whisper. it was also how people sometimes whisper lesbian, like they're afraid of uttering a slur. autistic was either an insult or it was something terrible, a horrible burden only select people endure. "select people" were usually 9 year old boys and skinny white men.

they are not hispanic young adults with a dog and a life and friends. i can make (sustained, calculated, painful) eye contact. with certain people, i don't even have to count how many seconds i am holding their vision - i can just look at them. i can wear clothes that bother me, i will just have a worse day than usual. i might cry about any changes to my schedule - but change is scary! this is normal!

when i was 16 it was OCD. i mean that was the thing everyone said. i totally have ocd. they would arrange 6 colors of gel pen in rainbow order (no worry for indigo feeling left out) and they'd be "so ocd" about it.

if you struggle with intrusive thoughts, be careful at this next paragraph, but. at 16 i developed a compulsion that involved self-harm. my ocd was convinced i was simply forgetting that i'd hurt someone terribly - a thought that persisted for no clear or delineated reason.

at some point i will probably write about how the idea of "morally pure thoughts" was hell for me and others with ocd, but this was the odd dichotomy for many of us: they liked our "aesthetic", but were genuinely repulsed by our lived experience. "intrusive thoughts" now means "cutting your hair in the sink" instead of talking yourself down from believing horrible things. "so ocd" is a label without any true understanding.

it's something i've talked about before - in multiplicity - but i firmly believe in the veracity and necessity of self-diagnosis. i think it saves lives and it saves tragedies from occurring. as someone raised in a house that wasn't safe, self-diagnosis was, for many years, the only viable option. 15 and honestly googling: am i depressed or are there demons affecting my behavior.

but it is not genuine self-diagnosis anymore, most of the time. it is a strange, blanched version of that whispered word autism. now certain traits are constantly seen as "autistic" - any passing intense interest. any flubbed social interaction. people say it while laughing - a touch of the 'tism.

and i like the acceptance! i do. i like that people are talking about it. i like that if i self-identify, more people speak up and say me too, bitch. but there is something-else quietly happening, the way it happened to OCD. the quirky, "fun" parts have been washed and sanitized and removed of all suffering. now it is just something that makes you "a little bit silly."

it took me 27 years on this planet before i learned to make friends. something about me just seems incredibly odd, i guess, some kind of radiation monitoring. someone once (in a way that was almost friendly) told me i am doing the right things, but in a way that's off-putting. i have scoured myself raw attempting to be charming.

someone on tiktok does a deep dive into their particular passion. the top comment says "what kind of autism is this lol". like we are a breed of animal. like it has no influence on our experience. like our life is a fresh breeze, an open meadow.

more often for me, life was a drowning.

[monofazz]

I think Deceptibee AU fans should consider the hilarious potential of a Starscream and Bee dynamic in this kind of situation—

[hope-bagels-for-life]

sometimes i get reminded of how much hatred and disgust people have for autism and the self acceptance and love i worked so hard for feels like it briefly just like disappears

i feel silly and stupid and embarrassed sometimes for gettin so upset but i saw a tiktok from one of those ‘ autism moms ‘ pass by and the comments were soul crushing. mothers saying they wished their kids were normal, saying shit like ‘ why did god throw this disability on my son ‘, family members mentioning they had an autistic family member and how tough it was for THEM, how hard it is to ‘ deal with ‘ autistic people in their lives, how much they wanted to give up etc. one comment specifically was about how they ‘ had to be strong for their son and then cry when he was sleeping ‘. it was specifically the way every comment was phrased that made it clear to me they just saw autism as a burden; specifically to themselves and they were ‘ so strong for putting up with it ‘ and ‘ having the strength to go through it all ‘, talking about their autistic children and relatives like they werent even people

idk. i usually get mad about that kinda shit but it was just kinda hitting different today i guess. fucking weird and incredibly sad to know how many autistic folk are around people like this

also stop filming autistic people, esp ur own kids, going thru meltdowns and extremely vulnerable moments and then posting them?? on the internet??

[catmask]

would love to be a cool stoic guy. unfortunately i never shut up

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

i feel like these things are connected

[mayasaura]

I don't wanna further hijack that poor poll, but the thing about Harrow's schizophrenia is that it's canon. The author has confirmed it, and shared that it's based on her own experience.

It's a pretty obscure bit of canon, so of course there's no shame in not already knowing, but that's why I'm so obnoxiously persistent about letting people know.

Whatever else is up with Harrow, autism or cptsd or any number of likely headcanons, she is also schizophrenic. I feel like that's too important to be handwaved away as a difference of opinion.

[tomatoart]

coffee cheetos chicken

[heartorbit]

(Just attack!)

[basilpaste]

"not all autistics are low-empathy!!!! some are really high-empathy!!!!!" okay cool good great. but are you like... normal about autistics who are low-empathy, though? because people with low empathy exist and are normal people. are you normal about them?