#me being autistic

[henryshakesmear]

"How do you know you're autistic"

I'm watching a guy collect all 4.000 variations of armor in Minecraft Hardcore while crocheting exactly 2.016 star stitches for a bag I saw like five blurry photos of on a blog last updated in 2016 on a Japanese blogging platform and I immediately decided I needed to have that exact bag down to the stitch. I rest my case

[smthingandiforgorthelyrics]

SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG CHARACTER ANALYSIS WITH A SPRINKLE OF SONADOW

(first writing related post here lmao)

this is for all you shadow lovers (like me). Enjoy me being autistic for like 3k words throughout this.

[rat-detector-72]

Doing drugs to make me feel better (ibuprofen)

[carb0n-m0n0xid3]

Starting a thread cuz I'm stupid

Once upon a time,,

[zephyrfryz]

Anyone else just sit there on mobile Tumblr and just play with this thing

Like you hold it and BOOM

It does this and my autistic self can't be happier

I just sit there and move it around like an insane person

[recklessandyoung]

how did you somehow rb that post more times than i did

The power of autism

[carb0n-m0n0xid3]

gotchu fam, i been craving brain damage

[henryshakesmear]

List of tasty words:

Vermillion

Viridian

Rage

Volatile

Oblivion

Jaded

[komodocloud]

do you guys ever feel like an outcast even in a group full of outcasts. like i'm autistic and even in groups full of neurodivergent people i'm still excluded sometimes. i don't understand why

[firedragon1321]

This post appeared literally as I was going to complain about it, lol. Is that a sign? Well, I'm gonna complain anyway.

Putting numbers/a timeline into one of my works helped me locate the exact problem I was having with it. It helped me put shit in chronological order and locate a missing event that is crucial to the story's themes and antagonist.

Numbers are also great for character ages. A thirteen year old and a thirty five year old simply look at the world differently. One of the first things I do when I make a new character is slap an age on that little fucker, and that means using a number.

That being said, I think these are all examples of needing numbers. And the post does mention why arbitrary numbers can be an issue. And it's right on that (look at the third poster- they really do a good job explaining it, better than I can). But for my autistic brain, adding a timeline really helps me get rid of BS. Especially in this case.

Also sometimes, the number in your head is not the number you need. Which I think this post was also talking about. For example one thousand years is the distance between the Late Middle Ages and today. So I took a "one thousand year" bullshit timespan and shrunk it to one hundred twenty years (i.e.- no human was alive before the thing happened, but we're not going from the Middle Ages to poggers). And I still had to shorten it again. It's "Martin Luther King was a Trekkie" syndrome- a lot changes in a shorter time frame than one might think, and time is not as distant as one imagines.

So my personal rule of thumb is now "if a thing's been there "forever", making it slightly longer than the average human life span might work better than a millennia". Though that depends on what you're trying to do.

The original post was also really talking about Not Doing Your Fucking Research. If your story is set in the past, you should research that time period until your eyes bleed. Less so if you lived through it, but still. Ask your web search of choice or your local library or any expert you happen to know. If the story is set in the future? Still do research. But don't worry about the "well achtually" nerds because no-one can predict the future. Who cares if we won't have jet packs in 2442? Have fun with it. And if the story is in an alternate world, you can really go nuts.

TL;DR- Numbers have rules, but also no rules.

(Sorry I didn't just reblog this- I wasn't sure how much was relevant and it got way too long.)

[papercrane]

smooth, and poor rough teeth-covered sharks appreciate some smoothness every so often.

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because jazz is

jazz is so sm

[carb0n-m0n0xid3]

Tw: gore/ murder/ tendencies :3

Gang, is it weird that like I actually want to physically kill someone, to Stab someone with something, see blood, see lifeless activity, see them dead?

And I'm not targeting someone person I mean like just any person

But like it's it weird to crave seeing blood, guts, to feel them, to move them around, to experience an autopsy and do one?

Like I genuinely want to do these and I uhh

I dunno but I don't think one Should crave these

(I also wanna try like actually try human meat but that's a whole other story)

[bean-spring]

Hot take and not to be a killjoy or the shipping police but people treating Viktor or Jinx's aroace headcanons as if they were canon is not the revolutionary take people think it is.

Headcanons are always all right but we have to acknowledge that they are somehow damaging when they apply to stereotypes. It might not be the case for everyone but most of the time people unconsciously assume that disability/mental illness=asexuality. These headcanons erase the freedom of attraction from people who are already seen as unable to have sexual/romantic experiences/desires, when it's completely untrue and harmful.

You can headcanon Viktor and Jinx as aroace, but I have seen people changing their minds once Viktor is no longer disabled (s2 with all of his other forms) and Jinx is no longer as mentally ill (alternate universe Powder). And it speaks wonders of how people see these characters.

"I never thought about Jinx being able to feel romantic/sexual attraction until s2!" To believe she's actually only capable of that when she's not "damaged" is incredibly disturbing. Especially since Jinx has always had a bit of a flirty personality too.

"I've always seen Viktor as asexual, I don't know why!" That's fine. You can headcanon him as ace. But I believe there is a reason behind it, most of the time, if for some inexplicable reason the "vibes" of the disabled character are making you think he's ace.

I say all of this being aroaspec myself, by the way. Headcanon all you want but going to people's posts commenting how "it's weird for you that they have romantic/sexual plots when they're clearly aroace" is not a win at all. It's a headcanon, after all, and it should be treated as such, and that's fine. But it also is damaging to spread stereotypes like these.

Of course the disabled character is asexual. Of course the mentally ill character is aromantic. It's not as revolutionary as you might think, tbh.

Fandom is not activism and it's all right to have any headcanons you want BUT some of them are filled with damaging stuff and perhaps we should look into ourselves more before treating these assumptions as something canon.

[recklessandyoung]

… oh

neurodivergent child: *asks a lot of questions because something doesn’t make sense to them*

parent: why are you arguing with me.

[fluffbeast7]

I WAS FUCKING RIGHT

people who disagree or made me embarassed to have had headcanons about this are LOSERS

as i said as soon as i saw this on twitter:

''I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW ITTT I K N E W IT I FUCKING WON!!! I MAY SUCK AT FNAF THEORIES BUT I FUCKING WON AT THIS ONE LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO god anyways i love kellen he was an inspo before the dca existed- this guy is such a goat!! autism icon!!''

@basyacriptid i'm fucking losing my shit sorry if u already saw this

[linktoo-doodles]

i'll strangle you or i'll kiss you on the mouth