#neurodivergent wins

[mossymossman]

My neurodivergent friendships are some of the most beautiful things I experience. When you live your life feeling disconnected and alone from others. Meeting people you feel connected is kind of overwhelming. I have craved close, supportive friendships since I was nine. Finally, I have them, and it's amazing. Because I know that these people get me. On a fundamental level, they have experienced the same shit I have.

Your people are out there, I promise.

[starfishinthedistance]

Shoutout to neurodivergents who were punished or marked down in assignments for using too complex language, and also shoutout to neurodivergents who were punished or marked down in assignments for using too simple language, and also shout out to neurodivergents who were punished for both of these depending on the most recent way they fucked up

[sensiblereblogifposts]

We interrupt our usual broadcast to ask the USAmericans out there, please make plans to go vote for Harris.

What ever you think of Kamala Harris, remember the other guy is basically a fascist.

One of the two will take office after the election - there is no other possibility.

Please do your part in keeping Trump out of power. Go vote for Harris.

[animatedtext]

requested by peppered-saltine

[sprinkleofquirk]

Reposting but with the original collage that I made and would have posted if I wasn’t such a scaredy-pants

“buT hE’S A clonE He Can’T Be aUTiStIc THeY hAVe THE sAmE PerFEcT geNes sO He’S NORmal”

Shut up. Echo’s the OG 😇

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Link to original post ->

https://www.tumblr.com/sprinkleofquirk/746705019921940480/in-honor-of-autism-acceptance-month-i-present-to

[voluntaryvictim]

OH MY GOD

[infiniteorangethethird]

being good at math & school but being shit at everything else truly is a specially crafted hell. Ppl will deny recognition for your academic achievements and the effort you put into your studies bc "well of course ur doing good you're smart that's just how you are" but then turn around and shit on you when you struggle in different areas bc "you should be able to do this you're smarter than that".

[fortunatefires]

There's nothing like feeling so anxious I'm gonna puke only to turn on a special interest and my brain is like "Oh yeah, existing is pretty okay again." The turn around is exactly 0 seconds

[starleska]

while i was away i picked a new show to try at random and oh gosh...Mr. Adrian Monk 🫠💖🫠💖 he is just so wonderful. one of the prettiest smiles i've ever seen. you could just drown in those eyes 🙈✨

[conjectureand-gloom]

so let’s get something straight: if i cover my ears because i cannot stand the sound of someone chewing, im being rude. so i don’t cover my ears and instead end up in tears, and im being dramatic and im an attention seeker. so i move away from whoever it is who is chewing, and im being disrespectful and making that person feel bad, so clearly im a horribly selfish person. so i blast music to drown out the sound of somebody chewing, but its rude to listen to music at the dinner table, so obviously i have no manners and im a horrible person. how can i win this???

[rainbowpopeworld]

Actual exchange between my therapist and me-

Therapist: “And what do we do if we can’t do something the first time we try?”

Me: “put it away and never do it again?”

Both: ~laughter~

[polycraftory]

My brain has only two craft settings:

CRAFT NO: Watch as your WIPs languish for weeks to months because you haven't made any time or space for them in your incredibly busy schedule.

CRAFT YES: Welcome to hyperfocus o'clock! It's been 13 hours and you've gotten The Most Done. You have only eaten meals and drank water through years of practice while hyperfocusing (and also because your loved one occasionally remind you that you have a Physical Form that needs tending to)

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

Smeagol is autistic rep here is my proof:

- very picky eater, will choke and die if made to eat lembas and will either eat fish and raw meat or starve

- gets sensory overload from sunlight and moonlight

- hyperfocused on his special interest

- unusual speech patterns and often refers to self in third person

- loves water and swimming

- gets really intense about cheating and injustice

[lumilamp]

lil hc that came to me while brushing my teeth lol

this is young ranpo btw

Edit: HOLY HSIT THIS IS ACTUALLY CANNON

[duchessofostergotlands]

Annoys the fuck out of me when people in positions of authority at my work from home job are like “we should all get together in person, it’s so beneficial.” To you. And you can go in whenever you want. But why do I have to travel for 12 hours when I don’t find it beneficial (in fact I find it actively damaging)? Extroverts always win. Morning people always win. In person workers always win. Fucking sick of it

[sureuncertainty]

so as a former employee of RMS Titanic Inc, I have some thoughts I need to get out about this whole current situation, or I will literally explode.

for context, I worked for RMST Inc. for a year and a half as a tour guide and artifact specialist. The company owns the salvage rights to the wreck site, and partners with Oceangate and other companies to retrieve artifacts. the artifacts are used for educational purposes only, in the museum that I worked at, although they weren’t above selling little bits of coal from the Titanic in stupid little tchotchkes like snowglobes and hourglasses.

i dedicated so much of my life and passion to that company and that museum and was treated like absolute dirt lol. and I didn’t even get the worst of it, I had friends and coworkers whose safety and wellbeing was consistently disregarded for the sake of profit, fighting desperately for corporate to stop pretending to care about the legacy of Titanic when all they really cared about was making money

so despite my initial shock at reading about what was going on with the missing submersible, I can’t say I’m surprised. This is what fucking happens when you cut corners and put profit over everything else. If only there was some big historical event that we could look to that would show us just exactly how dangerous that can be...  oh wait.

Jack Thayer, who was 17 when he survived Titanic, said that “the world woke up on April 15, 1912″, which pretty much sums up how SURE people were in 1912 that they would never make those same mistakes again. They realized had gotten complacent and swore things would be different. They enacted safety laws, pointed fingers at survivors, created conspiracy theories to try to explain what happened, all out of fear of it happening again. And yet, history always repeats itself

and now people are fucking OBSESSED with the Titanic, they find it fascinating,  they won’t fucking leave it alone, and the company I worked for, and Oceangate, and others, capitalize on that because they’re greedy and want to make money off of it. all they care about is how to profit off of it. they PRETEND to care about Titanic but they don’t. They never did.

I also actually have a personal connection to one of the five members of the team in the submersible. I met P.H. Nargeolet at the event our museum did commemorating the 110th anniversary of the sinking, I spoke to him and heard firsthand some of his accounts of dives to the wreck site, I even took a picture with him. He cared, he cared so much about Titanic and its legacy, and so do I and so did so many of my friends I worked with. The company we worked for took advantage of our caring, it took advantage of how passionate we were about it in order to line its executives’ fucking pocket

I’m horrified, I’m devastated, I’m vindicated.

on the one hand, I hope this ruins them. i want to watch the company die. there’s a satisfaction in that. but the shitty thing is how much suffering has to happen for things to change. i just wish good people didn’t have to die to make change happen. I wish people cared first, before tragedy strikes. I wish our world wasn’t so fucked up and shit like this didn’t happen. But it did. And it does. And money won’t save any of those people any more than it saved John Jacob Astor or Benjamin Guggenheim, or any of the other rich greedy assholes who died on Titanic. I’m not celebrating their deaths. But I won’t ever forget who suffers the most. The coal trimmers and the stewards and the minimum wage guest service associates at the museum I worked at.

I’m glad I don’t work there anymore. But some of my best friends still do. And I don’t want them to suffer more because of this. All I can hope is that it enacts meaningful change that actually lasts. But I know that’s just wishful thinking.