#very tired. and autistic.

[void-galaxy-shenanigans]

Why do bodies have to exist? Why can't I be a free flowing energy sentient being?

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autistic Social Anxiety

Autistic Qualia

[coffinkissez]

i haven’t played book 6 but this is what it looks like to me

[thecorvidforest]

look i get the spirit but can y’all please stop referring to all people who use neopronouns & xenogenders as “just kids who want to express themselves”? like yeah some of us are kids but a lot of us are adults, myself included, and i’m getting pretty sick of well-meaning allies accidentally insinuating that our gender identities & expressions are childish. thanks

[triptychofvoids]

Your comic abt the empathy test made me wanna take the test myself and I also scored under 30....the autism won this battle

[whimsical-sonic]

this scene is literally the perfect demonstration of sonic's low empathy and i'm going to do my best to try and explain why

let's start with some definitions: empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. this is different from sympathy, which are feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune, and is often confused with compassion: a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering

now, to break down the scene:

sonic: "amy, you better not be tricking me into the water again."

amy: "no trick, sonic. trust me. you're gonna love it. okay, open them! ta-da!" [she presents the palm tree]

sonic: "you got me... the palm tree? so it is a trick."

amy: "no, sonic, it's not a trick."

here is where sonic's low empathy begins to present itself. he's confused about the gift because there's nothing necessarily gift-like about the tree that stands out to him. he takes the gift literally, and proceeds to tell amy that he already has a palm tree, gesturing to a few nearby. he isn't able to pick up on why amy feels that the tree is so important, demonstrating a lack of cognitive empathy (knowing how the other person feels and what they might be thinking)

amy: "the gift isn't just the tree. it's all the memories we've made around that tree."

in an effort to try and help sonic understand the significance of the tree, they all share a fond memory that happened there.

amy: "yeah, really good times. right, sonic?"

sonic: "come on, guys, don't you think you're all being a little too... i don't know... sentimental? look, i get it. tree. friendship. memories..."

what sonic is now showing here is a lack of affective empathy (being able to read and feel other people's emotions). he is not trying to be insensitive here, rather, it's just that he genuinely can't understand why they feel so strongly about this one tree

this next bit isn't about the clip but it's something i wanted to point out in relation to it:

sonic wasn't able to understand the significance of the tree until thorn had bluntly asked him what he knew about togetherness. it took him being in a position where he had to question his understanding of the word to realize that it was the tree bound them all together

it's important to note that he didn't have this realization as a result of the feelings of others, but as a result of his own personal reflection. this is because of his low empathy

hope this helps ✌️

[muuurder]

Listen, I don’t know who needs to hear this but like L Lawliet absolutely fucks.

He’s incredibly autistic coded and I’m not saying he’s a sex god but like he’s 23-25, with tons of money. He gets needs met I’m sure.

Like obviously you can be autistic and a virgin (we exist lol) but I’m so tired of seeing the narrative of like he’s a virgin because he’s a weird dude.

Like please, he’s not a sex god but he is a fucking human, with insane amounts of money. You can’t tell me he hasn’t used that to his advantage.

[cosmogyros]

Any other autism-spectrum folks have NT friends repeatedly ask if you're "okay" in social situations? I'm sure it's sweet and well-intentioned, but it often feels like yet another reminder that I'm failing at "performing normality" to an acceptable degree. I have no idea how to act in order to convince people that I AM okay :/

[oh-meow-swirls]

i think this was funnier in my head.

[hecatesbroom]

did I finally manage to write a brand new fic? I sure did!! with many, many thanks to the lovely @eeblouissant for inspiring me with these beautiful drawings of Blanche dipping Dorothy (and the incredibly sweet follow-up with Rose playing the piano, after our chat about this scene!!) I hope I managed to do it justice ;)

Summary

When Dorothy mentions she’s never been dipped before, Blanche and Rose decide to take matters in their own hands.

[yet-another-autism-blog]

Progressive media be like "how do we make it clear that this canonically autistic character is an asshole and all the other characters are right to hate them? Oh I got it! We make them publicly experience symptoms of autism that are deemed inappropriate!"

[soullessjack]

i think jack and mcu peter parker could probably bond over having their entire character be reduced to the precious smol bean lovechild for a popular ship

[bisonofyesterday]

People will say Shuro is being ableist for assuming the worst of Laios and being unable to deal with his neurodivergence but they'll love Kabru for doing the exact same thing but serving

[wwheeljack]

I genuinely remain confounded by the two sides to the Tech debate in this fandom. I've seen so many people on the Tech Lives side proclaim that they will be attacked, or insulted or made fun of for their ideas, all while they argue that those who see Tech as dead do so only because they want him dead since he's "autistic".

I've seen people on the Tech is Dead side go out of their way to comment unnecessarily on people who want him back with their beliefs on his death. This is unnecessary, just as it is unnecessary for those who believe or want Tech alive to make assumptions about those who believe the opposite.

That multiple people believe that is why someone may believe he's dead is confounding. The idea that Tech may be dead is not predicated on a hatred for autistic people, or autistic like characters. It isn't malicious for people to either want him alive, or to have accepted his death.

Frankly, it is tiring how the main focus of Tech's entire being since season two is that he died, and he's potentially autistic (The Crossing included, he never has been outright confirmed as such). He is so much more than that, and deserves to have people focus on him aside from just his death.

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[suppuration]

the perpetual AuDHD tug of war between the imperatives of constant stimulation and prolonged calm

[caspi-snz]

Couldn't sleep so I doodled my current scarf blorbos, I'm in mental duress at the moment so expect me to not post art again for the next couple weeks, or this will make me draw more out of stress? Idk man who knows