#idk any other autism tags since im not active in the community

[grimmshood]

hi guys. my sister's doing a study on culture and autism and needs participants so here i am asking the autism website for help!! autistics of color are especially wanted due to the emphasis on culture.

there are two surveys and you'll get 30 dollars for finishing both (a $15 dollar amazon gift card for each)

my sister's been having trouble looking for participants, so even if you can't take the survey i'd appreciate it being shared to reach more people!!

[escrupulo42o]

HELLO HI WELCOME TO MY BLOG ITS INTRODUCTION TIME‼️

my name is antonio/pedro but you can also call me toño. i use he/him but it is also fine. you can check out my pronouns page if you want too

list of random facts about me (i love making lists):

im bilingual, i speak english (duh) and spanish (my first language). i also know like a tad little bit of russian and ive been trying to learn guaraní (i have the language level of a 2 year old).

i have autism and adhd.

i am from argentina AND I FREAKING LOVEMY COUNTRY SO MUCH.

I LOVE GETTING ASKS‼️ also i am not the most creative person so if you have any ideas for drawings please drop them there!!

i go to a technical school so i might not be super active but i do try.

this blog supports palestine, if you in any way support the illegitimate state of israel, you are not fucking welcome here get tf out.

i like to treat my blog as a magazine or something similar to that (when i remember to, im not that active anymore for some reason), theres different segments n shit that i will list here:

the first segment being #toño's garbage wich is just the tag i use for my drawings

second segment is the #intellectual toño time wich is my tag for music analysis

and lastly #toño talks, pretty self explanatory, i talk (i dont use this one that much)

other tags i often use:

#ñ, this is just the tag for stuff in spanish or things that are somewhat related to my culture

#yeah/hell yeah/fuck yeah or any other variation of that is the tag i use when i reblog stuff i really like (idk how to express exitement like a human)

!!!, tag for important stuff

following this is a list of some of my special interests/hyperfixations:

MORTAL KOMBAT ‼️. i really like tomas, syzoth, raiden and kung lao (i also have my very own AU!)

STAR WARS‼️

ANIMALS N NATURE‼️ this one has been here since i was a kid. im bad at picking favourites but i do get really exited every time i see an aguará guazú, wombat or quokka lately (wich could be kinda obvious if you've seen any of my au stuff)

COMMUNITY‼️ the tv show i mean. i mainly like trobed and jeffbritta

MUSIC‼️ I LOVE MUSIC SO MUCH DUDE I COULD TALK ABOUT IT FOR HOURS. i have a pretty wide music taste but i think my favourite bands/artists at the moment could be El mato a un policia motorizado, Gorillaz, Tyler the creator, Las ligas menores, Alex G Dillom n probably some other stuf that i am Too Lazy to write (you can check out my spotify account!)

SMILING FRIENDS‼️

BATMAN AND THE RIDDLER‼️ also the joker but whatever (the riddler is literally me but. more fucked up)

CARD CAPTOR SAKURA‼️

gif/blinkies/sticker collection (i have more but i picked the best ten (?):

i made the first one myself, i am very proud of it like this literally me if i was a gif

[dizzymoods]

I agree with everything you've said but at the end of the day, when it comes to it you were defending an anti-black person who has had a history of anti-blackness. That corvid-420 person called black people fake for activism online and made fun of them speaking out against fandom racism. They also called black people karen. vis/ibility would've been willing to listen to you becuase she holds the same views you do on the subject. but i think when you defended

a white person who was being vehemently racist to black people, and allowed that person to reblog and stand behind you for defense, then she probably didn't listen to you. and i personally don't blame her becuase that discussion about black Americans and privilege should only be had between black people (all over the world) and allowing a white person to lead that discussion at this time was really bad. Same with liluchihahurt .

I’ve intentionally left corvid out of this conversation. I haven’t tagged them nor mentioned them nor engaged with them at all through this. I saw that post as a way to start this conversation with another black person. visibility has engaged with corvid more than she has me. she blocked me after reblogging from me so I couldn’t respond. She has a pretty lenghty back and forth with corvid. Why? I’ve made it clear by not engaging with corvid and only engaging with her - that im interested in having this conversation with another black american. I want answers about what we gain from denying our involvement in american imperialism.

I didn’t get any notification nor see any post by corvid using me as an antiracist shield. If so that is weird and wrong and stupid of them. But the ways in which visibility accused corvid of being antiblack boils down to this person who is not black but is in a place which has been ravaged by US imperialism should not say that they noticed a tendency that black americans tend to side with the empire a little too often. The core of what corvid said is true.  Should they have been the ones to say that in this moment, maybe not. That is why I made a separate post that didn’t engage with anything going between visibility and corvid.

But:

This impulse of deflecting criticism of how black people participate in and benefit from the empire is a disease. I think its weird how nobody’s mentioned that visibility called me a nonblack leftist then called me a west african before calling me a coon. What’s up with that? What are you doing by immediately denying the blackness of someone who doesn’t agree with you? This is looks a lot like black nationalism to me. Where a very specific kind of blackness is idealized and anyone who doesn’t try to fit that is rendered not black. And, bc it is an unattainable kind of blackness anyone can be discarded as not black at anytime.

Visibility said that west africans were worse than white people. Can you imagine how absolutely fucking stupid that is? White europeans colonized west africa and in that process is how we ended up here. Nobody else sees an issue with this? People are intentionally being obtuse with what I said by claiming I blamed slavery on black people when I was very clearly talking about how integration failed us. which is why i used the keyword “integrate”. But it’s ok for her to say west africans are worse than white people? What does that do?

As for the timing idk. I think that’s something I can reflect on. But often when discussions like this pop up its never the right time to do so. And these discussions usually crop up when our community goes through tremendous pain and lash out at ppl who are trying to build bridges with us. And this is another impulse of black nationalism. Our pain is sacred and we must reject other peoples’ olive branch bc they can’t understand. We only have each other.

What about Syrians who, while fighting to save their wheat crops (their biggest food source) from being burned down by the US, took time to memorialize George Floyd and call for an end to their occupation and police murder? What about Palestinians who stand with us as they demand justice for Iyad Hallak, a man with autism who the IDF murdered? What about the French who are demanding justice for Adama Traoré and George Floyd, both of whom’s last words were “I can’t breathe?”

Are we to take these instances of solidarity with skepticism? Is it better to think of these as just PR stunts from these communities trying to distract from their antiblackness. Are we demanding they overcome their antiblackness before we even admit that we made the mistake of integrating into the empire? What is going on here?

tagging  @liluchihahurt​ since he was mentioned