#nd culture is

[nd-alterhuman-culture-is]

[✰] Welcome to another culture-is blog on tumblr. :)

hey ! you can call me mod, and this is neurodivergent alterhuman culture!

this blog is run by a neurodivergent, persodivergent fictionflicker and constel who uses multiple alterhuman labels to describe his identity.

my icon has this bpd adjacent flag and my header has the overhuman flag

some guidelines:

start your ask with the format “nd alterhuman culture is…” or get specific (“autistic alterhuman culture is…”, “nd otherhearted culture is…”, etc!)

want to keep track of your submissions? sign off your asks with (an) emoji(s) and the post will be tagged for your convenience. [here is the list of claimed signoffs!]

this is an inclusive blog for those with interdivergencies/pwpds, fictives/alterhuman system members, and DAs as well.

DNI if you support “narc abuse” or demonize cluster b or any personality disorders, demonize psychosis, are anti-alterhuman/otherkin/etc, racist, ableist, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-MOGAI, a TERF/radfem, a proshipper, or a MAP/noMAP/PEAR. [no KFF discourse or syscourse please! this is a discourse-free zone!]

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promo? @alterhuman-culture-is @ndcultureis @pd-culture-is @fictionkin-culture-is @otherhearted-culture-is

[lothalrebel]

Y’know when you discover a song/album and it just has THAT ✨vibe✨ and you make it your looping soundtrack for eternity

And then randomly ✨vibe✨ turns into ✨nope✨ and it just doesn’t hit anymore so you’re off to find a new life soundtrack

[amihungryorbored]

and sometimes that something is the arm of a loved one

sometimes u just really need to bite something. not in a violent way or in a sexy way or a hungry way. just in a bitey way

[thatadhdmood]

an eloquent take down of the "people are self diagnosing autism to be trendy and for attention" take that morons have been echoing on tiktok

[video description is the reblogs, its very long]

[ndcultureis]

Part of being neurodivergent is constantly getting mocked and teased for wearing out easier than neurotypicals. Where they can fit several different activities into a day, I'm exhausted before I've even finished the first one.

It's because so much work goes into masking. Talking to people in general, let alone when I don't actually want to, is exhausting in itself. Even the brightness of the sky can be overstimulating at times, and that's before I've done my shopping or done what I need to do, where there's too much talking and excessively loud music and workers who are often pressured into getting into your space before you've even walked several metres through the door.

What is considered background noise to some people is all I hear. I can't openly stim or do the things that make these jobs bearable because I'll get those looks from people that remind me that I'm not actually welcome unless I can be "normal".

I have to remember the script that I've created in my head for when I talk to the person I'm seeing. If they stray from what I had planned, I then have to create a new script on the spot without them realising that I'm on the verge of an anxiety attack because it's not going as I had hoped.

I have to make sure my facial expressions don't slip into what's natural, because it looks like i'm bored/disinterested. I have to make sure I'm making eye contact on occasions even when I don't want to because it's seen as disrespectful/impolite. Nobody wants to accommodate my needs more than they absolutely have to, but I spend every hour of every day - sometimes even in my own home - accommodating the people around me.

So yeah, small things can be exhausting.

[sjbattleangel]

Seriously, people! Can we STOP using The Owl House to tear down She-Ra and Steven Universe!!? Hearing others refer to The Owl House as "the anti-She-Ra", "the anti-Steven Universe" or "what She-Ra/Steven Universe should've been" makes my blood boil to no end! Do you realize that Dana Terrace, Rebecca Sugar and ND Stevenson are mutual friends who respect each other and their work? Not to mention how they helped paved the way for one another: For instance, without Rebecca Sugar fighting Cartoon Network for Steven Universe to be openly queer, there would be no She-Ra and without She-Ra, there would be no Owl House.

We need to stop tearing queer creators down just to put others on a pedestal. It no longer becomes about "wanting diversity and representation" but about turning "diversity and representation" into some elitist, gatekeeping competition. And that....that is just wrong.

For the record: I love all three series.

[heatheniousmaterials]

See, I recognize this is genuine advice

But also then my brain goes: "ah but what if we were so good that we win the job interview without cheating? We should definitely try to do that because Cheating Is Wong™ & they'll be very impressed with my honesty & integrity & I'll unlock the secret good ending where they hire me anyway."

remember that interviews are not about giving a good and honest first impression that they'll carefully consider. interviews are about saying the special words and phrases they're looking for that give you points and when they tally those up whoever earned the most job points wins

[snakeautistic]

I love eating food “wrong” because it makes the experience about 10 times more enjoyable. It used to drive my parents crazy but that didn’t stop me!! I would pick the chocolate chips out of my cookies and eat them separately, split apart the frosting from cake, sort my M&Ms and eat them in a very specific way- (first, you sort them into different colors, then you eat them until you have the same amount of each color, and then you eat them alternately in least to most favorite color order).

I also had a phase where I used to buy a giant bag of smarties and label every wrapper with a number and eat from the highest number counting down, saving any of the white smarties in a bag until I’d eaten the rest of them. No clue why I did this but it made that mediocre candy extremely fun.

Doing stuff like that doesn’t hurt anyone and it’s fun so I don’t get why it gets pushback sometimes!

[tippenfunkaport]

As Tumblr celebrates 10 years since DashCon, I thought I'd remind you all that ND Stevenson was there, had to moderate his own panel when the moderator didn't show up and ended up crashing on a sofabed in the Nightvale crew's airbnb.

(reminder that ND Stevenson has since transitioned, screenshots and articles below include his old name and pronouns)

ND has since deleted his tweets about it, but they are archived in some articles about it so here are tidbits and lore...

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this tumblr post gives the context for that and why it's funny but the gist is: nightvale star + nightvale writer + ND Stevenson all making fun of dashcon

But the real question is, did he get an extra hour in the ball pit? 🤔

[autismcultureis]

Autism culture is I've been ordering the same thing at Subway since I was 3 yrs old

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[wreckitremy]

And this is why Erika is my favorite

[nd-alterhuman-culture-is]

trauma + autistic c’link culture is losing your cat and immediately taking on a feline identity to cope with the loss. she was my angel and now i am an angel cat <2

i will probably do the same thing with my dog;;

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[tudirkulosis]

it is 2024 can we PLEASE stop w these kind of videos now. thanks

[adhd-culture--is]

adhd culture is “school and college is about time management, you need to master it in order to succeed” sir i literally have The Time Management Disorder

[aro-culture-is]

aro + neurodivergent culture is feeling like "am I really aro or is this another nd thing or is it just both..."

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