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#Spock of Vulcan#star trek#autistic allegory posting#spock#Spirk#star trek the original series#St tos#Kirk#jim kirk#james kirk#commander spock#Kiss already#spirk tos#tos
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does anyone want 700 pages of cyra lore or are you normal
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#tav#galemance#tw blood#i'm so used to drawing her all comfy post epilogue that i forget her backstory is fucking crazy#the blue guy is her surrogate dad :3#cyra's whole thing is an allegory for all the autistic daughters (or former daughters)#something something feeling different for whatever reason and then finding your people and realising there was nothing wrong with you#and also the actual psychological warfare from our mothers akdhdffdh#cyra's theme is just any paris paloma song
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bestowing the highest honor i can give to fictional characters on han yoohyun, the quadruple a battery headcanon pack (autistic aroace agender)
#han yoohyun#s classes that i raised#channeling hyj: he’s so lovable. i’m pinching his cheeks. he can commit as much murder and arson as he wants.#text post#k rambles#not sure i can even call it headcanon when i will argue that half of this is just canonical subtext/the consequences of who he is#(mild spoilers in tag) autistic/aroace coded nonhuman entities they could never make me hate you#he’s literally a character made for me…#caveat that having nonhumans as allegories for aroaceness or neurodivergency isnt necessarily a good thing#but they are my thing and i love them
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someone remind me to write up my fh disability theory reading meta at some point
#ive got something. it's gonna overlap a bunch with the transhumanism theme and discuss ortegas internalised ableism#alongside the allegories of the enhanced for disability + racism/disability/poverty/queerness (cigs inherent queerness of fh post is inspo)#mostly started with thinking abt the parallels between sura and ortega and how they choose to deal with their disability#some similar and some wildly different#i love that so much of the cast is disabled and in such a variety of ways#owl lost her legs during the nanosurge and ortegas highly experimental mods let them walk again and enhance their agility/strength#+ other things (at Extreme cost.)#chen is multiply disabled with the multiple amputations and the gut issues#argents got the nanovore stuff and chronic pain#sidestep is autistic coded! also the paingate being broken can be an allegory for chronic pain/fatigue. no longer being able to push through#like they used to.#ramblings#fh meta
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something something "character who is born into privilege but through circumstances relating to their birth has to suffer a pain they're helpless to preventing, and yet they don't stop trying to prevent the pain even knowing they cannot"
#had a quick second of clarity through the blinding pain of having a bad pain day in two of my genetic pain disorders#and that moment of clarify said “what are the odds” and the odds are rigged because I project onto every single character I write#chronic pain#anyways. waiting for the painkillers to work#until then gotta go thru that shivers and boneache and muscles clenching so hard it almost dislocated my hipbone :D#i'm just. so tired#and the entire falling down the stairs yesterday thing also doesn't help#really not looking forward to leaving the house on Thursday tbh#anyways this is a post about how I managed to make a character who is an allegory of being trans and autistic and disabled#and I didn't plan on any of those allegories happening I just had a fun idea and now its just me but cisgender cat that does drugs sometime
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having ocs and posting them on the internet is so embarrassing bc whenever i rewrite an oc or retcon something im just like oh fuck. you arent sneaky stinky. everyone saw that. its the same feeling i get whenever someone sees me trip its like i just rolled a 0 on dexterity
#KLAUS especially oh my god?#thank god i didnt post many klaus scenes before i completely rewrote his character bc WOW#he was really about to be wolfgang 2.0... but with way less to do#first interpretation of klaus was like... spoiled rich kid pull yourself up by the bootstraps 'my parents worked hard for our wealth'#and a sprinkle of misogyny. so kinda like wolfgang but WAY less interesting bc at least wg has trauma and insecurities... ur just rich klau#and then i watched mob psycho 100 and i was like wait a minute. klaus isnt a spoiled hyperindividualist rich kid. hes autistic#not to say u cant be those things and autistic but like.... hes shigeo kageyama adjacent thats all im trying to say ok#and mob psycho 100's story is like pretty obviously an autism allegory at least imo. so yes. klaus is mob psycho adjacent
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Was working on original fiction and happened to outline two works that coincidentally both centered around 1. Allegories for neurodivergence 2. Transgenderism and 3. Petplay and so I was like well two works with that same constellation of themes is just being unoriginal but three and it's a metaseries so I should come up with a third. But the problem is one of the works is dog style petplay and the other one is cat style petplay and after that you kind of run out of domesticated animals that are convenient to write petplay about. Like you have to start getting into symbolism and shit. Nobody's going to buy rabbit petplay as a concept for an entire novel/novella unless you justify it. Well maybe I could make it work
#belostomations#actually this post is a lie only one of the works is an allegory for neurodivergence#the other one is just straight up about an autistic character stated to be such in the text#'in the text' as if its more than an outline. anyways#its all moot because i never finish writing any original works ever
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So as I have been making my rounds posting about my book across all social media, some people take a look at my cover, get confused, and ask me at point blank, "Wait. Does this book support trans people or not?"
Of course I support trans people (that's the whole point of the book!), but I don't want to use any language that could be interpreted as political by your average Joe that is turned off by any politics. You lose reach that way. I think the book could have a larger impact by using language to make the story more universal to all people. With the right message, it could be seen an an allegory that applies to not only trans people but anyone who feels like they don't fit in with the tribe.
Yes, I did decide to go with the animal metaphor for the book in spite of some hot social issues going on right now. There were previously two books that used that metaphor to make a crude political point. I don't care too much for that, but if you read them, you're ultimately left with the feeling that they discourage children from play and imagination. I used to teach kindergarten and elementary students, so I felt there was something deeply upsetting about that. It was shortly after that I felt I HAD to make this book, no matter what. I saw the stigma around the analogy as a challenge.
The good news is that after talking with other trans people about it the overwhelming majority seem to like the end result. And since the book's launch, I've had so many furries, therians, and autistic people thank me for making the book. There's something about the experience of what it is like to utterly deny things that are inevitably part of the self yet completely oppose the tribe and the regrets we ultimately face because of it. A lot of people can relate to that. It is the heart of the struggle of all humanity and society. That is culture, not politics.
So there you have it. "The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Deer" is now available on Amazon, or you can read the whole thing for free on YouTube.
If you would like to support the book, ratings on Amazon and Goodreads are the best way to do so.
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after posting this last night, I kept wondering "hmmm I wonder why I got so attached to Rappa's character so quickly??"
like not just in a normal "oh that character has cool story/gameplay, I like that" way, but in a "i swear to all that is holy that this is one of my all-time favorite characters" way
and then I thought about how this reminded me of how I quickly got attached to Misteln... and then it hit me.
the secret sauce that makes Rappa's character so appealing to me, in the same way Mistlen was?
autism.
GOD DAMNIT
So, I just finished the new Trailblaze Continuance mission (no spoilers here), and I'd like to share my thoughts. Although I haven't done the event that follows, so no spoilers for that please x-x
All i have to say is... what the f***!??!
/pos btw, this is a "WTF" in all the right ways
Out of all the crazy things that happened throughout the game's story so far... I don't know how Mihoyo managed to go even further off the rails.
and still write a beautiful story with a shockingly deep message.
and also weave in the iconic Trauma(tm) here and there.
I'm still processing what the in the name of the Aeons I just witnessed
Anyways, on a totally unrelated note, I hereby declare myself a ninja initiate!
#look i'm not saying that Rappa is actually autistic cause like how the heck are we supposed to know that#but.... BUT!!!!!#seriously I've come to realize that there's a LOT of stuff in Rappa's backstory that is reminiscent of autism#all the random details big and small- from the hyperfixation to the “extrasensory perception” and more#and unfortunately also some of the more misfortunate aspects#namely how people with autism are often misunderstood or mistreated even to the point of abuse#if i had a nickel for every time I grew attached to a Hoyoverse character that could arguably be seen as an allegory for autism—#i won't go into detail because spoilers but in a few days or a week or smth i might make a longer post about this#a full literary analysis of Rappa's character from an autistic perspective or smth idk#honkai star rail#honkai star rail rappa#hsr rappa#rappa hsr
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#Data#data soong#data star trek#star trek#st tng#star trek the next generation#Autistic allegory posting#picture of a star trek character with a caption from somewhere else on the internet
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reminder that the only reason the "ADHD is actually demigod BATTLE STRATEGIES" and "dyslexia is DEMIGOD BRAINS HARDWIRED FOR ANCIENT GREEK" things exist in the PJO universe is because it's a very direct reference to early 2000s teaching/parenting techniques for neurodiverse and disabled children, which aimed to frame childrens' disabilities and hardships as a "superpower" or strength so that the children would feel more positively about their disabilities or situations. This technique has fallen out of favor since then for the most part since more often than not it just results in kids feeling as though their struggles are not being seen or taken seriously.
Yes, demigods are adhd/dyslexic (and sometimes autistic-coded) in the series. This is extremely important and trying to remove it or not acknowledge it makes the entire series fall apart because it is such a core concept. Yes, canon claims that their adhd/dyslexia is tied to some innate abilities, which is based on an outdated methodology. It's important to acknowledge that and understand where it comes from! But please stop trying to apply it to other pantheons in the series like "oh, the romans have dyscalculia because of roman numerals!" or "the norse demigods have dysgraphia for reasons!" - it's distasteful at best.
A better option is to acknowledge the meta inspiration for why that exists in the series, such as explaining potentially that Chiron was utilizing that same teaching methodology to try and help demigods feel more comfortable with their disabilities and they aren't literal powers. In fact, especially given Frank, there's implication that being adhd/dyslexic isn't a guaranteed demigod trait, which means it's more likely to be normally inherited from their godly parent/divine ancestor as a general trait, not a power, and further supports the whole "ADHD is battle strategy" thing being non-literal. It also implies the entire greco-roman pantheon in their universe is canonically adhd/dyslexic - and that actually fits very well with the themes of the first series. The entire central conflict of the first series fits perfectly as an allegory about neurodiverse/disabled children and their relationships with their undiagnosed neurodiverse/disabled parents and trying to find solutions together with their shared disability/disabilities that the kid inherited instead of becoming distant from each other (and this makes claiming equivalent to getting a diagnosis which is a fascinating allegory! not to mention the symbolism of demigods inheriting legacies and legends and powers from their parents and everything that comes with that being equivalent to inheriting traits, neurodiversity, and disabilities from your parents).
anyways neurodiversity and disability and the contexts in which the series utilizes representation of those experiences particularly during the 2000s symbolically within the narrative is incredibly important to the first series and the understanding of what themes it means to represent. also if i see one more "the romans have dyscalculia instead of dyslexia" post in 2023 i'm gonna walk into the ocean.
#pjo#riordanverse#percy jackson#analysis#meta#adhd#dyslexia#also this symbolism recontextualizes the relationship between demigods and their godly parents so much#particularly Percy and Poseidon and the whole ''I'm sorry you were born thing'' like DAMN that's an ENTIRE DIFFERENT IMPLICATION#honestly in general the first series' meta analogy of being a demigod as symbolism for being neurodiverse/disabled ROCKS SO HARD#that's SO COOL and im SO SAD NOBODY EVER TALKS ABOUT IT#i could write a whole essay on that alone like COME ON GUYS#can we PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THIS I WANNA TALK ABOUT THE COOL DISABILITY METAPHORS....#anyways i didnt proofread this cause. re: dyslexia so if it doesnt make sense dont worry about it#i can try to explain further in supplementary posts if people so wish
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a lot of people who've watched gravity falls think that stanford is unsympathetic or a bad character, and most of the people who dont think that think stanford is at least selfish and flawed, which i can't really refute, but it always made me feel so awful, and i never realized why until now.
if you look at stanford pines as an allegory for a child with a developmental disability like autism or a "gifted kid", then a lot of the pieces start to fall together.
⚠️spoilers for gravity falls, the website, and maybe a bit of the book of bill⚠️
stanford pines was born with an "extra finger", a symbol for a disability. for a while, everyone thought it was a flaw. he was teased and shunned by his peers,
but then, people began to notice his genius. it even says on thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com, when you enter "sixer" or "stanford", that he has a "hyper-ability", something many people will say about "gifted" autistic people.
as soon as people started to point this out, everything felt like it made sense to ford. as a person who grew up with autism, i can relate to feeling alienated from my peers, and wondering "why? why, in a world made for normal people, was i made wrong?"
that kind of thought can lead to a sort of delusion.. that maybe you were destined for something great. maybe you were different because one day you would use it to change the world. i believe this is the way ford felt when he was approached by bill
bill came to ford and told him everything he'd ever wanted to hear.. that this feeling was real. that he was destined for greatness. that he was better, smarter, more special than the ones who had shunned him.
bill told ford that building the portal would make him a hero, make people finally see him as more than an extra finger. the one problem?
bill was a liar.
he used ford's selfish thoughts to trick him into making a gateway that would end the world. he used the years of mockery, the alienation, the loneliness, and he came to ford when he was alone, trapped, with nowhere to go.
he offered ford the opportunity to get back at a world that was built to knock him down at every turn, a world full of people who would never understand him. he offered to make ford a god.
and ford refused
he refused, even in a world that had done nothing but tear him down, to hurt others just to feel better about himself. he only had a few people who had ever cared for him, and yet, he was willing to destroy his life's work to save everyone who had made him miserable.
remember, he fully intended to stay trapped in the portal for all of eternity. that's why he was so frustrated when stanley brought him back. what we saw as a heroic act from stanley, ford saw as stanley refusing the sacrifice he had made to save him. he didn't thank stanley because nobody thanked him. no one thanked him for his hard work or sacrifice or his years of suffering just to protect stanley.
that, of course, led to this scene, which many people saw as stanford's most frustrating moment.
i think this post sums up really well why stanford, in this dire moment, would choose to insult his brother. because stanley was being selfish, too. stanley refused to help save the world, save his brother, all because ford never said "thank you."
they were both selfish. everyone is. they didn't fight because they were bad people, but because they both saw things from their own perspective. they were each hopelessly lonely without each other, but both too prideful to admit it.
in the end, they make up, and both follow their true dream. not money, not fame, just staying together.
stanford pines is not a bad, unsympathetic character. he is a complex, misdirected, "gifted" child. his only flaw was not seeing that he wasn't alone. his family was right there to support him the whole time.
#stanford pines#stanley pines#gravity falls#the book of bill#book of bill#gravity falls spoilers#undiagnosed autistic old man with 7 phDs#autism#undiagnosed autistic#bill cipher#gifted kid syndrome#rant#thisisnotawebsitedotcom#gravity falls theory#gravity falls thoughts#thanks for reading my old man austism rant#this was just really bugging me#I KNEW I LOVED THAT OLD GEEZER FOR A REASON
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hhhh the fact theyre always put down and only regarded as "a ghoul" as if thats the most horrid thing you can become (<- i say "become" rather than "be" for a very specific reason btw. being a ghoul in the fallout universe isnt like A Thing, per se, its more like something you BECOME unwillingly (or willingly like that one. fuckin freak up in repconn and the ghouls who keeps saying hes a ghoul when hes very much Not A Ghoul. dont think of the implications there though ok just shut up dont. even worry. like. about this. smile.)) & how every ghoul u meet is unwaveringly fucking depressed to Be Like This and actively regards it as disabling (<- the irony is palpable jesus christ) and how that is actively supported by everyone else you meet, who all speak of ghouls like some terrible blight and the worst thing you can become (<- i already said this but im stating it again bc its. so fucked up lmfao.) and actively dehumanizing them further by arguing that No Actually its Not Bad that theyre outright disgusted and want to kill all ghouls Trust Them, its because the ghouls are ALL Secretly Bad and we Should kill them all For Our Safety! and if youre like Huh. Why is that though. they kind of stutter and act like your fucking stupid for even asking, despite the GHOULS being the ones who are victimized more often than the HUMANS ARE like HELLO ????!?&(??$$":8$(074/;)085
anyway. im normal about ghouls
if i think about the ghouls in fallout & how theyre the most unsubtle disability coded characters of all time my head will. explode.
#GGRGAGGRGAGR SCHIZOPHRENIA ALLEGORY BEAM#<- only in relation to. that last part#im ramblimg this isnt well thought out#dont question any of my points OKAY. i dont CARE this is me being AUTISTIC about my fucking spinterest and my experiences#jjjjesus christ ok. my hands hurt. crawling out of this post covered im blood and shaking#speaking.mp4
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hey hi. about nimona. yes it's 100% about being trans. but as a nonbinary autistic person? this movie was really touching in ways I didn't even realise were possible.
the entire train scene actually killed me.
"Can you please just be normal for a second? I just think it’d be ... easier if you look human."
"Easier for who?"
"For you. A lot of people aren’t as accepting as me."
then, when Ballister asks what shapeshifting feels like - if it hurts - the way Nimona responds hits very close to home on my experience with stimming.
"Honestly? I feel worse when I don’t do it. Like my insides are itchy. You know that second right before you sneeze? That’s close to it. Then I shapeshift, and I’m free."
And then. "What if you held it in?"
"... I just... sure wouldn’t be living."
not to mention in the original comic, Nimona's parents believe that she's something synonymous to a changeling - that she's something that replaced their "real child". this myth was likely born as an "explanation" for neurodivergent or developmentally disabled children. the townsfolk talk about her getting "better" in the comic. as if there's a cure for the way she is. which is something autistic people deal with all the fucking time.
to end on a more lighthearted note, "I'm not a girl. I'm a shark." was so real of Nimona. I'm so happy they kept that in from the comic, because it was real when I was younger and it's even more real to me now.
this story is a trans allegory loud and proud. I do not want to discredit that with this post. but this story also makes me, an autistic person, feel seen. and that's so fucking important in today's world.
I love this movie to pieces. Please go watch it, and remember to be kind. You will change someone's life for the better.
#not to get serious on main#but it's very important to me#This Movie is very important to me#nimona#nimona movie#autism#autistic
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There's a thought/theory/whatever I've long had about a specific pair of episodes from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ever since I was a teen, and I'm putting this post out there to see if anybody else had the same thought.
I think Julian Bashir from Deep Space Nine, especially his plotline about having been genetically altered at a young age, is a commentary on neurodivergency.
Bashir is characterized as being highly intelligent, albeit lacking in social insight. He excels in academic matters but frequently finds himself floundering around women, being led by the nose by more charismatic people, and not picking up what other people are putting down. This alone would make him the average stereotypical TV depiction of an autistic person, but what I want to focus on is the episode that provides a canonical reason for these traits: the season 5 episode Doctor Bashir, I Presume.
In this episode it's revealed, or retconned really, that Bashir owes his intelligence to genetic tempering. Bashir originally suffered from a learning disability. He was not as intelligent as other children his age, falling far behind his peers, and his parents resorted to illegally altering his genes to "cure" that disability. As a result he instead became exceedingly intelligent. In essence, it took away a symptom that made his life more difficult, and traded it for one that made him more functional.
That episode on its own isn't a super strong nod towards autism. Though it does establish that Bashir is at least neurodivergent, it's more a discussion on eugenics and the theoretical ethics of removing disabilities through genetics. What I really want to focus on is the sort-of-sequel to this episode, and the only other episode that really focuses on these themes: the season 6 episode "Statistical Probabilities." In this episode, Bashir sets out to help other people who underwent genetic alteration, but for whom the treatments didn't go as well. The people he meets all display symptoms of one neurodivergency or another. One of them is very hyperactive and lacks empathy, another is very childlike despite being an old man, and another is entirely unresponsive.
For me, as someone who grew up in special education, I couldn't help but recognize some of the people I knew. To me, the metaphor was clear: "genetic alteration" was really just sci-fi talk for neurodivergency. Julian was the savant, the high-functioning autistic person who successfully integrated into society, because his neurodivergency gave him intelligence and insight that made him useful. And the others weren't as lucky, struggling to lead normal lives because their symptoms impeded their ability to function by themselves.
Bashir spends the episode trying to prove that the other genetically altered people have something to offer society, that there is a place for them. It felt very on the nose to me. But no one I've seen talk about this pair of episodes ever seemed to have taken from them what I took from them. I can't find anyone else online who interpreted the episodes the same way. Maybe my perspective is very particular, as someone who spent so much time in special education growing up, and who has personally struggled with finding a place where I can offer something to others. But idk. Am I seeing allegories that aren't there? What do yall think?
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Another thing that The Murderbot Diaries makes me think about is the concept of someone's birth being unethical in and of itself, and how to reconcile that with loving and supporting them. Wells touches on it briefly in Rogue Protocol in regards to GoodNightLander and their laws surrounding SecUnits, but while I wouldn't call it one of the main themes, it just kind of weighs uncomfortably in the air-
A SecUnit is made to cause pain, to feel pain, and to be disposed of when it is no longer more valuable than the sum of its parts. It is made sapient so it can feel every ounce of boredom and pain that it is put through. There is an extent to which the creation of a SecUnit is, in and of itself, an act of cruelty by its creator.
Where we're at right now, Murderbot seems to have a rather low view of other SecUnits. It knows what it wants, and it knows who it is, to an extent, but what does it think about a SecUnit's place in society in general? What does it think of in regards to a long term solution? Does it think one exists?
Then, also: Murderbot is an invaluable asset to anyone that it offers its allegiance to. But that then begs the question for Preservation, for PUoMaNT: How do you support, love, and care for a person who has been traumatized by having been brought into the world in the first place? How do you heal the wound that is the crime of your birth?
Then, taking it to its logical conclusion: How do you draft up laws and policies so as to support a person while not condoning the act of their creation? How do you make it clear to the person in question that they are worth of love and care, while also wrestling with whether they should ever have been brought into existence in the first place?
Preservation can make laws establishing constructs as autonomous individuals, but what next, and what will those laws do in regards to the rhetoric surrounding them?
How do you reconcile making space for someone's existence in a utopian society, without saying the thing that you are thinking, which is: In a perfect world, you would never have been created?
And maybe this is just me being deep in the paint in regards to allegory for disability here. As someone who has been in leftist spaces where the existence of disabled individuals in post-capitalist society is a problem that needs to be fixed, as someone who grew up autistic in an anti-vax household, as someone whose existence is often rather inconvenient for the folks planning their jobs in the metaphorical post-capitalist communal homesteads.
I mean, to be certain, I don't have literal guns in my arms, but I am genuinely interested as to how the post-capitalist societies in TMBD intend to handle people whose very existence is, through no fault of their own, antithetical to their values.
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