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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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demilypyro
theconcealedweapon

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headspace-hotel

the autistic view of the world has insight and beauty in it, and we’re taught that there’s something wrong with it.

sensicalabsurdities

What’s fascinating is that the parents who didn’t know it was the work of an autistic kid praised it as well.

theyoungestwhateleydaughter-dea

Technically, we don't know that it's an autistic kid's work, either. 5e infographic doesn't say Cadence is autistic.

neuroticpantomime

"appropriate play skills" is such a horrid phrase, goddamn

lesbiacebian

people demonize autism so much that parents think their children aren’t playing “correctly”. it’s play, how could it ever be wrong?

demilypyro
guidancerune

imagine you're frolicking in a field, prancing through long grass, singing "falalalala~", occasionally picking a flower. etc, etc. but a guy in the same field is watching you, about 20 paces away. he lowers his opera glasses (which he was using to watch you) and starts clutching his head and screaming with blind rage because of how much you're pissing him off. that's what it's like to be on the internet.

dragongirlteeth
identitty-dickruption

yeah we’ve all loved the “trans people are hot” posts (those posts are good!) but are we ready for “trans people don’t need to be hot to deserve rights” and “solely thinking about trans people in a sexual manner is probably not great”?

identitty-dickruption

people are drastically missing the point of this post

  1. I think being trans is hot. t4t for life
  2. I just don’t think we should be using our “hotness” to argue for RIGHTS
  3. not all trans people will be considered hot by all cis people (or by all trans people)
  4. also trans people are already sexualised A LOT. relegating us to the purely sexual realm is a component of transphobia

keep on fucking trans people. keep on being loudly supportive of finding trans bodies attractive. but when you only talk about trans people in a sexual context, and when you always respond to posts about trans rights with comments about how sexy we are… that’s not a good thing!

puppygirl-hornyposting
flingposseinc

one of the things that makes autism a disability (and why some of us choose to label it as such rather than an “alternate neurotype”) is the stress. 

part of autism is just being incredibly stressed. overstimulation? stress. holding a conversation? stress. something happening to our schedule? stress. people talk about how often autism is recognized and diagnosed via our stress responses (like meltdowns) because it is just so common to see autistic people stressed because of lack of accommodations to how our brains work.

and this matters because stress kills. stress causes a lot of health issues, or it can trigger pre-existing ones by making certain chronic conditions flare up. i once had a psychiatrist very unhelpfully tell me i “just need to manage my stress” when the stress i was describing was things i could not avoid in neurotypical society and can’t “just get over”. i can do “self care” all i like but i cannot at the very base level change the way my brain inputs information and reacts accordingly.

roach-works

i only learned this year that loud noises aren’t physically painful for other people. i have lived 34 years in a world in which my friends and family regularly physically hurt me at random just by shouting, and i thought everyone else just thought i was kind of a wimp for not dealing with the pain as well as they did.

like. loud noises physically hurt. it’s like a static shock from my ears to my spine that doesn’t stop until the volume goes back down. i thought we all agreed that ‘that’s too loud!’ and covering our ears meant ‘ouch!’. turns out i’ve been dealing with a stressor almost no one else has, my whole life, alone.

autistic people have to keep functioning through debilitating levels of stress that no one else in their life acknowledges or helps them with. it’s no wonder that their most visible ‘tells’ are breakdowns.