#something something neurodivergency i guess

[dilatorywriting]

I feel we are all super mean to the reader with Siren Vil??? Are they actually stupid or is it just that they can’t understand what’s going on? Which is kinda valid considering their situation?

I mean it has to be hard for them, right? Not only do they have trouble communicating with THEIR world since they are almost 100% deaf, but then you have the extreme cultural differences of trying to communicate with someone who exists in what is basically from a completely DIFFERENT world (part of your world reference anyone?).

I just feel like, while they may not be a genius or anything, it’s kind of mean to be expecting them to know what’s going on when they have so much working against them. We’re calling them stupid for not understanding that the necklace was a courting gift and that the siren would come back for them… why would they think that?

They could tell the necklace meant more to the siren than they thought it should have and it made the siren more friendly, but why would that equate to what is basically marriage and never leaving them behind? And the reader knows the siren wants to get back to his pod really badly. While they became friends and got attached, that wouldn’t mean he would come back to help the reader. Of course the reader is going to see a ship and try to get off of where they were marooned.

As dumb as the reader CAN be sometimes (like when they took a bite of the cooked crab without removing its shell 🤦‍♀️) I really don’t think they’re THAT stupid. They’re just… on the level of someone who was probably an uneducated kid when they snuck aboard a pirate ship and never looked back and now they’re an adult. You mentioned in one chapter I believe that Riddle taught them to read I think? Or something?

I LOVE this story, don’t get me wrong. At all. Ever. I adore it.

The fact that I’m even here hanging out on the author’s blog shows how much I love it - and your other writing. I guess it’s just been getting to me a little how we all seem to slam Siren Vil’s reader so much. Maybe I’m just making mountains out of molehills. Maybe you’re just being sarcastic and I’m missing the cues because I’m neurodivergent and I do that sometimes. If so I’m sorry.

To end on a good note, I’m really happy you’re back and are doing better. I know how much brains can suck. If your demons are too mean to you, just send Reaper Rook after them. He’ll take care of them for you, I’m sure of it! 💚🖤

I think it’s mostly said out of love, like how when you pick up a cat to give it cuddles and call it a stinky lil garbage gremlin even though you would die for that creature. The Reader in this is someone I try to write as having inconsistent levels of intelligence. Great planner, great at setting goals and reaching them, but TERRIBLE emotional intelligence all around. Not just in Siren Language. Just overall is blind to a lot going on around them. And yes, the added layer of communication difficulties certainly don’t help, but this is a reader I fully see as one who even *if* they had super sight, hearing, and intellect would still be missing the point of things simply because they’re stubborn in their perception and lock onto that One Thing rather than being willing to see the bigger picture. Even when the evidence is staring them right in the face. Which is why we lovingly call them a big ol doofus.

[thumpersdae]

and this is why we need inter-sectionality! because I know all of that and I know I'm in a group of people who can probably do the best by holding my tongue and trying to be kind deSPITE. and how am I going to survive all of that without the trans-wemen, CPU-perverts, and neurodivergent furries, who are holding the violent video game industry together with spare-straps and chewing gum. I can not stress to you how vital the Doom was to my emotional well-being during the first trump term. us "I guess if someone is going to have to give the whole de-radicalization starts with support and kindness thing a go, and it might have to be me." types are going to need keener minds than mine to help convert, pirate, and adapt gorry bloody, eat popcorn and laugh at the guts type media. to help us compartmentalize and decompress from the emotional load of giving a shit about bad people DE fuckin SPITE. also we must support men when they are being neglected, but we still need to be mindful that our society often centers their emotional wellbeing as a default. seriously listening to the complaints of a disenfranchised Man(tm) is not the same as platforming him on your nationally syndicated show. you feel me? but at the same time we can't focus so much on saving neo-nazis that we let the people they want to kill go un-helped.

and to be honest if i can't come home after a long day of being a decent person, who is upholding the important parts of society. to lose myself in a piece of art that funky weird queer people put together to show how fucked up it would be if love was a metaphor for cannibalism. then what even is the point anymore! and I think something beautiful in the world will be forever lost if the reason those games go away because "they became dangerous to make"

I fully agree with the sentiment that in order to deradicalize young men you have to show them compassion despite their actions and beliefs, because treating them with hate and vitriol is just going to reenforce and justify their beliefs and make them double down. HOWEVER I also fully agree that they deserve all the fucking hate. Like, yeah, in theory, I would love to take the moral high ground and help try and deradicalize young men and MAGA cult members by showing them love and compassion despite it all, showing them forgiveness despite their sins, but in reality I’m fucking pissed and I hope they go to hell and I’m not faulting anyone else for thinking the exact same way.

[sixfeetumber]

dear That One Guy at the Computer Repair Shop in Big City in my state. you don't know how bad you fucked up my computer.

like. your shoddy job 3 years ago is still causing irreparable problems. i thought id be able to take this high quality (and quite pricey) computer with me to college and now it's barely holding itself together.

[cinnamonsikwate]

post-canon laishuro but it's gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun. is this anything???

shuro attempts to confess his new & confusing feelings but laios misunderstands "i want to stay by your side" as shuro volunteering to stay and help in the golden kingdom's restoration efforts. everyone's patience is sorely tested and an ungodly amount of cheesecake is consumed.

[cosmicyellow]

i hate this i hate this i hate this i

[sickness-stricken]

I believe a LONG time ago in her RVI days she mentioned being diagnosed with something that was basically akin to Autism (or what would likely have been Asperger’s at that point) when she was a kid. I forget exactly what it was but Malcolm brings it up in the Joon stream.

Then, in her Sheldon Cooper video, she basically admits that she doesn’t like when autistic characters are mostly treated as being in the right by the narrative and seen as wholly good heroes because that’s “cheerleading” which is… bad, I guess. She likes Sheldon being autistic because his friends constantly shit on him and other him for his obsession with his niche interests and inability to read a room at times. She likes RD being autistic because she’s usually the one in the wrong in episodes that star her and has to be taught a lesson by the narrative/her friends.

All this to say, I’m almost certain the reason she behaves like this is because SHE didn’t have a support system growing up, so she thinks NO ONE should. I do believe her when she says that she had nobody speak to her directly when it came to her case in regards to her diagnoses and that she likely has a reason to be wary of the psych system, just as I do. If she had been shown more respect by her case workers and given agency and a purpose, I’m fairly sure she wouldn’t have this negative of an association with neurodivergency.

I feel the need to add that, in conjunction with the topic of Laios, autism and how Lily conducts herself on the topic- Lily herself indirectly admitted to headcanoning Ashley Graves and Voltron as autistic, alongside her own planet-killing OC on the "good rep!" side of her arbitrary meter.

People who engage with Coffin, I've observed they more often than not suspect Ashley has something closer to BPD or Sociopathy (something to that effect depending on criteria used in whatever theory), Lily is the first and ONLY person I've ever seen allude to an idea of her being on the spectrum in specific.

Coinciding: during her MLP days she violently hated Twilight being seen as autistic and argued Rainbow Dash was a better fit... you know, the pony she wrote to be a predator in the Stockholm series.

Lily, is there a reason you have a habit of "coincidently" associating autism with being an active criminal danger to others...? Why is it that she wants all autistic rep to be strictly "a spectrum" between insufferable assholes all the way to actual genocidal lunatics?

[yourheartinyourmouth]

googling “jobs for gay idiot adhd losers who can’t do math and have no skills and have never been able to mentally and emotionally handle the responsibility of being employed” weirdly didn’t bring back any results???????????

[darlingcloudie-9]

Live laugh love Kumonoue & Yuichiro’s straining relationship 💕

[vampirefangs]

i know "i saw the tv glow" is very metaphorical but also if you are/have been mentally ill/delusional enough in just the right ways it can be relatable in a literal sense too

[age-of-moonknight]

“Deliverance,” Marvel Zombies: Black, White & Blood (Vol. 1/2023), #1.

Writer: Ashley Allen; Artist: Justin Mason; Letterer: Clayton Cowles

[autisticlee]

no one knows just how hard I work at things. how I have to work 1000000x more than the average person to compensate for being autistic and adhd and probably other things i'm working out with therapist, and having a sort of physical disability i've not received any help or treatment for. everyone assumes I don't try or give up too soon. they think I just started, need more practice. they think I expect everything handed to me immediately with no work or effort and don't acknowledge the multiple years i've put into things. they think I have no right to be upset about still failing to get where I want even after working my entire life to get there, while watching people around me surpass even my meager goals within a fraction of the time and work i've out into the same thing. constantly getting surpassed by everyone around me who seem to barely do any work to get there compared to me. it's all handed to them and falls into their lap so easily. all because they don't have the extra obstacles to overcome and work around that I do. while they go from point A to Z immediately with no major stops in between, I have to go through every single letter and then some, often getting sent back to the start. but it's always *my* fault, according to everyone. it's not the fault of those around me who ignore me, don't support me, don't help me, don't believe in me, etc. it's my fault they don't do those things. because doing the work of 10 people in one isn't enough, just because it's me. and not reaching Z as fast as everyone else means I don't deserve any of the support or help or anything else and means i'm not trying hard enough. it doesn't matter that I *need* to work harder than 100 "normal" people combined to get even half the result! Just because I can't reach what they do means i'm not trying hard enough! ugh.

[akhillasmyth]

So i found out the other day im a synesthete / have synesthesia?

Meaning i experience sounds/words/colors/other with sensory input thats not related to the subject itself!

Like i can tell you magenta feels like goopy honey dripping from my mouth but tastes like flower petals after the rain, on my hands it feels like gentle velvet and fuzzy leaves.

Literally poetry built into my brain like whatttt

I never knew this cuz autistic “takes everything literally” made me believe it was a lot more of a “hallucinatory” experience i guess? Not one that happens in my brain by itself

Its hard to explain how it /works/ but i can describe the sensations!

[fallenrain40]

i find it so weird that tomorrow i will be legally an adult like what the heck im not mature enough to be considered legally an adult bro- im also scared cause. i always thought i'd be able to handle myself on my own but then the autism creeps in and its like oh dear god i do not know how to function at all.

and like, i know turning 18 dont mean I'll immediately be living on my own or anything, not much will change right away. but turning 18 means all that is coming very soon and i can't really stand thinking about it.

[jessicas-pi]

I can have motivation. and I can have ideas. BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME APPARENTLY.

[girl-bateman]

Every day I am reminded that 90% of my problems would be solved if I actually listened to my intuition like ever

[aconstantstateofbladerunner]

The only reason people don't like [insert media] is because they all [insert example of moral/political weakness].