#not autism related

[relatable-autistic-things]

Not autism related but I have to share a random Doctor Who thought:

I'm watching Series 4 Episode 3 "Planet of the Ood", around 28 Minutes into the episode the Doctor talks to an Ood and for some reason I find the way he talks so comforting.

He's like "look at me, let me see, that's it, that's good" in a really soft voice

[autisticflapper]

Mandarin Monday #1

我没有上课，怎么办 – I didn’t attend class, what should I do? Two students eat lunch at the school cafeteria. They talk about why they were late or early for today or yesterday’s class. How late or early they went to sleep, why and how they prepared for today’s lesson. They also mention how they review or preview the lessons. They decide to go to the school library more often to study together and set up…

[heartfairy]

retiring to your chambers >>>>>>

[genderkoolaid]

i don't know what autistic person needs to hear this but they are not watching you. the entire world is not constantly waiting for you to do something weird and laugh at you behind your back. you do not need to constantly self-police whenever there's the slightest chance another person might see you. you have a right to be your autistic self in public spaces. stop fighting yourself for their sake.

[defectivegembrain]

Like. Autism doesn't come with an automatic love of hearing anyone infodump about anything they love. In fact sometimes it comes with the opposite. Sometimes restricted interests are in fact restrictive enough to make anything else boring. Sometimes it's just hard to process that much speech. Doesn't mean we get to be unkind about it either but yeah. This fantasy people push of autistics having endless energy and appreciation for each other's special interests is just not realistic.

[swordy-da-goat]

i connected two dots

[that1notetaker]

Getting out of the comfort zone can be uncomfortable.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

@funshape

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Life in an Autism World

[itsaspectrumcomic]

am I still in time for ace week

[relatable-autistic-things]

The BBC has the opportunity to do the single most hilarious thing when it comes to casting the 16th Doctor after Ncuti Gatwa regenerates

[crystalldragon]

[unicornpopcorn14]

So we all know by now that Dazai is comfortable enough around Chuuya to show nervousness/worry.

Enough times for Chuuya to pick up on that pattern. The pattern, may I remind you, that doesn't have evident correlation to either nervousness or worry to most people. One that can even be interpreted as misplaced given the situation.

Which means that Dazai has done this in front of Chuuya so often, that Chuuya at first was hella confused, before he finally made a connection between when and why it happens. And still remembered that connection after four years of separation. Which gets us to my point:

What if this isn't the only emotion Dazai displays weirdly?

What if he has multiple unconventional patterns he displays for sadness, frustration, content, or disgust? The times he really feels them, and they become too strong for him to just deal with normally? What if these are the only times he's actually being genuine with his emotions?

And Chuuya is the only one who is familiar with them all?

Dazai would be jumping rope and Chuuya would be like, "quit sulking, let's get icecream"

Dazai hanging upside down on the couch and Chuuya going, "It's okay, mackerel. You can cry."

Dazai actually crying, full on heart-wrenching sobs, and Chuuya unironically going, "What, good news?"

It's just... comforting, for one person in Dazai's life to read him like a book. Everyone else would look at him like he's crazy, displaying wrong emotions/behaviors at the wrong time, but Chuuya knows that it's just how he processes feeling properly, and thus he's the only one Dazai can count on to put things into context and understand, which makes him display them even more openly.

Because Chuuya never shamed him for his quirks, as much as Dazai never did his.

[t00thpasteface]

"it's very problematic to make your space aliens autistic-coded" SPEAK FOR YOURSELF 👽👽👽👽👽🛸🛸🛸 ALIEN LASER BLAST ATTACK ✨✨✨🌠🌠🌠🌠🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[new-twitter-memes]

Teen me pre adhd diagnosis just casually disassociating from stress & anxiety👌💯

[sirenium]

Stimming isn't enough. I need to violently vibrate out of existence