#that is AUTISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it has been diagnosed.

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Tw: buckwild ableism and shit taste "jokes"

For an award for being an outstanding club sponsor from the arts ed board like 2 years ago, and my family tuned into the zoom call.

My dad was messaging me throughout, and at one point complained he couldn't put an image of Sloth from The Goonies in the chat when the guest speaker (thank god prerecorded) was talking about her son having autism and ADHD. I told him off hardcore. She was talking about how his diagnosis helped her and his teachers understand him better and play to his strengths so he was flourishing.

I tore his ass apart, then went on about how pitiful my experience being diagnosed with ADHD at 28 was. I had to fight for it, and since I "did so well in school" and all, I had to literally say "my (ex) husband is upset because I can't keep up with housework" before I got someone to take me seriously. It was bullshit. I said how my meds (even though my BP is too high for traditional stimulants) have made a notable difference in my life, and how understanding WHY I interpret things so differently helped me.

He randomly got very vulnerable and told me about his ADHD, and how he was sorry he passed it down to me. My mom also has it, but that was never brought up to me. Of course I have it. My brother is also on the spectrum, but autism is such a dirty word that I'm not allowed to bring it up, lest my mom lose her shit on me. He's 30.

It's bullshit, and I'm constantly harping on my family to not keep their medical history a secret. My aunt went through some wild renal rewiring not too long ago. When trying to figure out my mystery BP issues, the doctor's notes from renal ultrasounds showed the number of arteries (iirc, it's been years) is like flipped as to where they should be

Don't treat your medical history like a mystery to your family.

a child with an undiagnosed mental illness: I think I need help. I struggle with things nobody else seems to be struggling with.

a parent who never got diagnosed for the exact same mental illness: Oh sweetie. EVERYONE struggles with that :)

[krispiecake]

also. if you were wondering. yes i have diagnosed the main character in my show with autism. obviously.

[citricacidprince]

Everyone’s always like “Me and the Bad Bitch I pulled by being autistic”

Where’s MY bad bitch I pulled by being autistic???? Where are you finding these bad bitches who like your silly whimsy and inability to answer the phone???? Please????

[transrevolutions]

expanding on my previous post actually every single oiar employee (including lena) is autistic they all just have different and clashing presentations. that "weird interview" celia and sam were discussing in episode 6? yeah that was just lena attempting to give a poorly-disguised diagnostic test.

[thousandyearphantombunker]

https://dailycollegian.com/2023/12/there-is-no-bad-person-disease/#:~:text=There's%20no%20health%20condition%20that,do%20with%20your%20overall%20morality (not sure the links I've given are functional but y'all can copy them into your search bar anyway)

People with NPD are capable of apologizing for past behavior, admitting to weakness, sacrificing themselves, showing others respect and decency, they can have morals and some of them (not all) are capable of empathy which btw is not required in order to do something heroic- also it's possible to act heroic for selfish reasons. they have fragile egos and often can have complexes (like ya know a guilt complex that makes them an overly self sacrificing martyrs) I'm sorry tony being a good person/attempting to be better doesn't negate him from having the 'evil' cluster B personality disorder. Tony's self importance doesn't manifest as being cruel or outwardly selfish it manifests in his guilt complex and playing hero. His belief that he is special fuels his guilt further. He's a perfectionist.

"I expect more of myself than everyone else. I have to be perfect or I'm useless." - a diagnosed narcissist

He is cold and dismissive and he can brag a lot. He's a functional narcissist so he's not gonna freak out when criticized. It's almost like narcissistic people are people and are complex and aren't so solely just a bunch of negative symptoms and traits of their disorder. He's also got several disorders that are comorbid with NPD such as substance abuse disorder and he has an avoidant attachment style- perhaps to protect his own ego and cope with childhood trauma. He used to exploit others heavily and is kind of a toxic boss. He was rejected, and neglected by his father and praised for intelligence so much as a child and had to deal with a lot trauma before getting kidnapped by terrorists. All of the traumas he faced are common in people with npd

tony displays: arrogance, haughty behaviors, and attitudes. a grandiose sense of self-importance. a lack of empathy or an unwillingness to identify with the needs of others and behavior that is exploitative and takes advantage of others to achieve their own ends. It doesn't manifest as outright cruelty like I said his grandiose sense of importance actually motivates him as a hero and makes his ego weaker though he's functioning so he can still take a blow

I am mainly going based off the comics and I'm aware that the MCU tones him down quite a bit but he still displays some of these traits.

I remember back then when autism was also just a lost of negative traits/symptoms a school counselor would point to 'an autistic person have no empathy and are completely rigid and black and white in their worldview, they will break down over dumb things are violent etc' being autistic when I was kid didn't mean you were a kid with a disability it meant you were a brat and a burnout. It meant you were unhygienic and aggressive and RIGID- which according to way too many people meant robot control freak rather than seeking comfort in things like routine and lacking the skills/intellectual capacity needed to function outside of them or they have panic attacks when taken out their routine and ya know aren't being manipulative and are having involuntary emotional responses- and I would hear autism parents complain about their kids and i would hear adults raised by autistic people talk about the scars they had been left with and they deserved to vent because yeah it can be traumatic and stressful and they are victims but it became something ugly toward me. People with cluster B personality disorders have it way worse than I ever did (dear god they get criminalized) but I relate for a reason. I like characters like Tony because they have traits associated with stigmatized disorders and shows those traits in action vs how we envision them when hear about the disorder- when you hear self important you automatically assume it means selfish and don't realize how complex and different that trait can look across the board and we get to see that they are complex and capable and even good people. I know not everyone has to agree with the headcanon and I understand why many of Tony's fans get mad at this headcanon but you don't have the best knowledge of NPD I'm guessing. People hear traits like entitled and interested in success and power and automatically think of the worst case scenario- megalomania and taking whatever they want no matter the cost and don't see how those traits can manifest in a variety of ways and not all them are destructive. Your statement apply to some not all narcissists. I don't know if you have trauma and if you do I'm sorry if this reads as cold or mean but I really hate when people talk about personality disorders like this. Npd can manifest in a variety of ways

"everyone is different" yeah including freaking narcissists that wasn't a gotcha. Your statement was legitimately ableist

everyone who says that tony is a narcissist has probably never met a narcissist but as someone who lived with one for Fifteen Fucking Years I can tell u that he isn't even close to one

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The Sammy Lawrence Art I mentioned in another post!

I literally can't stop drawing him guys, send help 😭 😭 He's such a fascinating character to me, like I need to stick this guy under a microscope and write a 10 page dissertation him. The ink got to him guys. It called to him.

Like, he's an asshole but a lot of it wasn't his fault. He deserved better.

(Design of Sammy heavily based on the Escape AU by @inkdemonapologist!!) (I hope you don't mind the ping, or me taking inspiration from your designs. He's so fun to draw, I love it)

[lexidius]

okay so i posted in a forum talking about "most ridiculous arguments you've had" and remembered this story from when i was a teenager, i had this samsung slide phone that i'm convinced was a shade of red but i had a friend online who had the same phone and he was upset about it because he was convinced that his phone was "dark pink" and we argued over it for like 35 minutes and never came to a conclusion, my argument at the time was "pink is a lighter shade of red, there's no such thing as dark pink, that’s just called red my guy", "then why is dark pink a colour that exists and why is my phone that colour", "dark pink does exist though, except it's not called dark pink, it's called red", "i'm telling you the phone is pink though, not red" etc etc we went around in circles and never came to a conclusion and eventually lost contact some time in like 2013. so guys, this has been eating at me since 2010, i need to know what you all think. is the samsung C6112 slide phone "desaturated red", or "dark pink"?

reblog for sample size i guess

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yukio: nissan i know you're autistic which gives you some leeway but you have to commit to your studies and work hard even though im normal i still-

Rin: i thought that stuff was genetic

Yukio: .......

[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?

[sciderman]

I swear I have read your big post regarding Peter Parker's neurodivergence and why it is best to avoid labelling him, but he definitely has a weird brain

Can't find it and feel kinda sad about it cuz I deeply related to it

i know exactly which post you're talking about and i can't find it either! i've raked through my archive, and it's just - nowhere to be seen. i think tumblr eated it (it happens.)

really, tumblr's search functionality is so so useless, i don't know what to tell you. there are plenty of keywords i can search to find it that post, but the search functionality actually just does not work!

undiagnosed audhd-addled peter parker, my darling, my light, my life, my everything.

i think peter parker's such an interesting creature to write, because a lot of people will point to a certain behaviour about him and say "this is an autistic thing, right?" but a lot of those behaviours are actually, in my head, tied to certain traumas in peter's life too.

people say "oh, the food thing, peter's a picky eater because he's autistic" and yes, absolutely. but also it's tied to his trauma with his parents.

peter gets overstimulated, and yes, it's an autism thing, but also he was bitten by a radioactive spider and his senses are dialled to 11.

it's a similar case i've found for myself, too – where a lot of friends i have kind of diagnose me because i have autistic traits, but actually - i'm hesitant to claim the label or pursue diagnosis because, actually, i know where these certain behaviours come from, and they come from certain traumas. there are events i can pinpoint in my life and say "yep. that's where this behaviour comes from."

so - i think there's a lot of overlap between trauma and autistic traits. the brain is very complex! i think the reason for that overlap is maybe as simple as the fact that people with autism and people with trauma are both doing the same thing - developing behaviours to protect themselves or soothe themselves. so - i think it's nice to be able to see a character like peter parker, who may or may not be autistic, but recognise behaviours in him and see yourself in him.

people who go undiagnosed for whatever reason - people who are really good at masking - so good, in fact, that they have no idea they might be on the spectrum - everyone and anyone at all can look at peter parker and recognise themselves. because i think we discredit the thought that every single brain does the same thing! develops certain behaviours in order to survive. every brain has that same software - we've just all been faced with different hardships that we need to overcome, and that's were all the differences come in.

autism is a spectrum, i guess - everyone falls into it to some degree. and i think events in your life probably push you along on it. but i don't know, i didn't study brain science. probably what i'm saying is very stupid and uninformed. of course there's brain chemistry involved. but i know people in my life living with autism and certain events in their life have exacerbated certain behaviours or made coping with it a lot more difficult. so maybe trauma is a catalyst.

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cool pose turned stupid meme not clickbait

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[b0wi3sgir1]

Nah fuck this shit,

cuz I heard a loud sudden noice 2 HOURS AGO

AND IM STILL STRESSED ABOUT IT AND MY HEART IS BEATING AND I JUST WANT IT TO STOP

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

all the robotniks have autism I think. it’s not even a genetic thing half of them are adopted they’re just all autistic

[straycalamities]

back to self-analyzing what the fucks going on in my brainium

[orbits-of-the-elliptical-variety]

rest in power king

[youronlybean]

Every time Chilled starts on his oral fixation defence the only thought in my head is “this man is so neurodivergent” swiftly followed by “stop diagnosing strangers on the internet just because they have the exact same symptoms as you”