#sincerely an autistic person

[goosin-around]

I can sniff out an autistic character from a mile away

[fastest-yeast-in-the-east]

Anything is possible if you're autistic enough

[gl1tched-g0th]

It's always "omg this character is sooo autistic coded 🥰" Until that character has low empathy and/or sympathy, is considered "rude", doesn't understand social cues or vague boundaries, doesn't act stupid, helpless, or weak, or has higher OR lower sensory needs, then suddenly it's a Problem and they Aren't "sooo" autistic coded anymore.

Really goes to show how many people just see autism as this cute quirky trait instead of an actual disability that. yknow. Disables the person who has it.

[bluestjayy]

This feels like an appropriate time to remind folk: before blindly accusing authors of using AI based on an arbitrary list of 'obvious AI tells' remember that non-native speakers of a language often display these tells too. That autistic folk often display these tells too. That new writers who picked up a pen for the first time only a few months ago display these tells too. Writers going through transitional periods in their life and style often display those tells too. Creators trying a new medium or style just for the sake of experimentation often display those tells too.

It takes no effort at all to practice empathy and kindness, and to simply avoid any works you don't enjoy, or think may be AI, without publicly making a false claim that many authors would struggle to disprove.

Voting with your feet (or clicks) is always going to prove more effective at combating actual AI than just being outright mean on a social media platform. If you think it's AI, don't click on it. It's really that simple. Without the clicks, what incentive do AI authors have?

But if you just go to a different site and scream into a main tag in a vague and accusatory way? You know what's going to happen?

A fanfic author decides that maybe writing fic isn't worth it if they're going to have every other word scrutinised against a standard that shouldn't apply to them. Other readers start picking apart every fic they come across based on a set of rather unspecific (and in some lights, discriminatory) bullet points that 'make it easy to spot AI' and then it turns into unsubstantial finger pointing.

Fandoms lose more genuine fic authors this way than we would ever gain in AI writers. Just saying.

The epitome of this is just... be nice. For god's sake. Just be fucking nice. It's fandom. It's supposed to be the nice place.

Don't turn it into a battlefield.

[audhdnight]

Quick little PSA because I keep seeing confusion on this topic:

“Allistic” simply means “NOT autistic”.

It DOES NOT mean you are neurotypical. It is not a bad thing. It’s not some kind of accusation that you need to be defensive about (literally saw someone throw a huge hissy fit about being “lumped in” with neurotypicals by an autistic creator).

You can be neurodivergent AND allistic, if your neurodivergence is ANYTHING OTHER than autism. You can have OCD, schizophrenia, adhd, anxiety, DID, or literally anything else. As long as you are not autistic, you are still allistic.

Please stop using allistic as a synonym for neurotypical. Please stop acting like it is an attack if someone refers to you as allistic if you know you do not have autism.

That is all.

[possamble]

i wonder if you have any thoughts about how marcille always seems to dislike it when falin wears men's clothing ( i bet she wears it out of its comfiness rather than because she prefers masc style tho, although i hope both lolol) and super short hairstyle

I wonder if it's just her interest in cute feminine fashion in general or maybe there's something more

For the clothes, at least, it's like... Marcille is probably more horrified by the clothing being actually made for and marketed to men than anything else. I bet she'd be fine if Falin wore the exact same things but they were in the women's section, or at least, branded unisex. She would be so so silly about arbitrary stuff like that in a modern setting.

The hair I think is a tangled issue of Falin's resemblance to Laios getting a little too obvious for Marcille's mental health, and Marcille's own very intense relationship with how (female) mages should treat their hair. Also, since it's mostly a joke doodle, I kind of took it as a flanderized Bad Taste Marcille being horrified by a woman with short hair because she buys into gender norms. Some people are... weird about what women do with their hair and unfortunately I can fully see how Marcille can be weird like that in a vacuum joke setting.

(there's also something to be said about how this kind of femininity policing could also be used as plausibly deniable homoerotic subtext. like, girl, why do you care that much about how cute another girl looks? hm?)

[vimbry-moved]

disclaimer that I don't like the idea of openly assuming things about strangers' identities or their personal lives, especially when you're catching a glimpse of only one part of them they choose to share in the public eye. but it Is very funny when you're reading or watching some interview with a famous person, and they say things that make you do this one comic:

[theokusgallery]

I hate that I have reoccurring themes in everything I make. YES this guy has a complex over the fact that everyone prefers his sibling AGAIN. YES he was ostracized by his peers since he was in primary school and never knew why until years later. URGH

[kaurwreck]

the vast majority of jokes that y'all insist are jokes are evidently jokes. but they're the same joke, scraped from surface impressions and regurgitated iteratively. there's humor beneath the outermost layer, too, and you're allowed to be clever, it's not illegal.

[pizzaboat]

I'm eating the autistic Annabeth headcanons up. I relate a lot to how she's acting, to how I acted when I was 12 tbh

[love-laugh-daydreamarevolt]

Can boundaries among family members be more common. Like in glad we're talking about setting up boundaries with friends and in relationships but like we need to stop with the "I am entitled to touch you/ get into your space just because I birthed you/ raised you" thing. If I say I don't want a hug, you respect that. tou do not force me into one. If I say I'm not mentally available for a conversation, we decide on a later time to have it, you do not talk over me. If you said something to hurt me and I asked you to either talk to me later if you can't channel your emotions right or ask you to take a different tone, you respect my emotions and reflect. tou do not yell at me and tell me you can do It because you are my parent. If I say I don't want to hug a relative you don't push me to do so. If I don't want to talk to someone, you don't force me to interact with them.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

My brother is nonverbal, but great job ignoring him like u all always do.

how do you communicate with him? i’ll sign with him. i’ll write or draw or point at pictures. i’ll sing or make faces. i’m sick and tired of allistics acting like communication is impossible with nonverbal people. autism is a spectrum. your brother and i are both on it. a lot of people are on it. you will never be able to make me angry about people trying to figure out if they are on it or not. especially since we are still learning about autism every goddamn day and the horizons for what autism really means for autistics are constantly expanding. i personally do not like having allistics in my inbox accusing me of all sorts of bullshit when i, a real live autistic person, have known, loved, and interacted with real live autistic people on all different parts of the spectrum for my entire life. i will be turning off anon asks for a little while, so if you would like to keep accusing me of being……autistic and ableist, apparently…..you’re welcome to keep doing that if you’re brave enough.

[gender-luster]

thinking about that fictional traumatized autistic middle-aged man again

[electriccenturies]

"autistic people deserve the autonomy to transition and make risky choices, same as anyone else" and "many autistic people struggle to understand their internal experiences, take things very literally, and need help to see nuanced perspectives — and those people deserve tailored care to help them make choices with the same level of understanding as a non autistic person" are two statements that can and do coexist. giving autistic people good care means acknowledging that our brains work differently and trying to work with that; not treating us exactly like neurotypical people and allowing us to trip over our disability in the process.

[kisstheloststars]

the irony of being told to "talk about your emotions" and "don't keep it all in", and just when you think you can trust them enough to listen/take you seriously/change their harmful behaviours/accommodate your needs, and start expressing your emotions when you're hurt by something they did, they don't apologise, make excuses, find you annoying/are just tolerating you, and "don't have the energy to keep dealing with you"

[muffinapologist]

Encouraging all Autistics who hate being Autistic and blame their misery on Autism to seek therapy instead of making it the problem of Autistics who are happy 💖