ASD in NT Land

Carla (They/them) Brave pigeon knight of the queendom. Stick figures available for £5 "Dapper of body, horrifying of mind" - Morrigan "One time I was starving and ate an injured camel " - Camel Eater Cristina  "You're ruining my life" - Lenni “Oh, I know them. They cheat at video games” The Chairman of Games "They'll do anything as long as it's in the public domain" - Eric Avatar art by @morrigan_ivy (instagram)

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

I just finished "Saving Grace" and i immediately needed to send all my love for this fic to you. There are very few fics I have read that I want on my physical bookshelf in my home, and this is one of them. Amazing job, you are a fantastic writer.

Thank you so much! Readers like you make the whole effort worth it fr fr

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

Hi hi hi!!! I saw your beautiful beautiful ridge city simulator. It was perfect and beautiful. Would you like to talk more about villains code and Drew Hayes?

- @drewhayesalyzer

Thank you! It was built with help by @itsfrenchfornothankyou, who is too funny for his own good.

And honestly, if you want me to pop off on the villain's code you'll have to narrow it down, I've had literally hours long conversations about it. As a treat though, I'll tell you about my theory on Lodestar's power. Under the cut so as to avoid spoilers.

So my theory is that Lodestar isn't just the most powerful being in the universe, or the lynch pin holding it together, I think that she actually IS the universe, manifested through a person.

If you've ever watched the starstruck odyssey season of dimension 20, they introduce the idea of a holofract, which is simultaneously a piece of something bigger, but is also the entire thing. I think that's what Lodestar is. That's why nothing can ever defeat her, because she contains all the power that's IN the universe, so no other power within it can be greater. She also can't leave the universe, for the same reason you can't leave your own body. And she also struggles with magic, which by definition defies the laws of the universe. And when she decides something is too wrong to stand? She literally changes the rules.

A small piece of evidence for this; at the beginning of chilling reflections when the nova is being described, the narrative mentions universes protected by a golden glow, which is obviously the lodestar universes. But it specifically refers to them as "universes that have fully manifested". I think that means that the universe has manifested itself through an avatar that can wield all of its power.

Now, I don't know what having the avatar protects the universe from outside influences. And also, I might just be wrong. That happens a lot. But I really like the idea. She literally bears the weight of the universe. That's some goddamn narrative right there.

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

Hey, hey. Look at me. Look- you're not in trouble. No ones in trouble but we need to sort this out.

A QUESTION is a request for information

A STATEMENT is an expression of a fact or opinion

An IMPERATIVE is a command

"I am leaving" - statement. Expression of a fact

"Get out of my house" - imperative, an order to do something

"Why are you here" - question. Request for info.

"What the fuck" Is not a statement. It's a question. "Stop that" Is not a statement, it's an imperative. Got it? Cool, be on your way. I really enjoyed the art you've been making btw.

[aro-quiver]

Hey uh, anyone heard we have a shop?

If you're in the uk come poke around!

Aro Quiver

a store featuring several artists, where you can buy stickers, zines, patches, and more!

[aro-quiver]

Hey uh, anyone heard we have a shop?

If you're in the uk come poke around!

Aro Quiver

a store featuring several artists, where you can buy stickers, zines, patches, and more!

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

I am once again cancelling @mariaalenkoshepard for pronoun crimes. At this time we are demanding a minimum sentence of 12,000 years in sensitivity training

[mariaalenkoshepard]

Interesting you say 'we' 🤔

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

12,250 years

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

I am once again cancelling @mariaalenkoshepard for pronoun crimes. At this time we are demanding a minimum sentence of 12,000 years in sensitivity training

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

I fear some people may not realise that they have sensory processing issues because the way they're commonly described is not the way they present in everyone

The most common way I see people talk about sensory processing disorders is that the person is always consciously aware of all the noises and sensations around them. And it CAN be like that, but I've found the way it happens most often for me is that I straight up do not realise that something in my environment is bothering me.

Like, earlier I was at the laundrette, doing some washing, and I started feeling very agitated with no idea why. Then after a while, I realised that there was an alarm going off outside. The door was open, and someone's mobility scooter across the street was beeping. Not super quietly either! Once I realised the noise was happening, it was an extremely obvious and very irritating noise.

And you might be wondering; what's the difference between that and a neurotypical person ignoring the noise? The difference is in the processing space being used up. A neurotypical brain can hear a background noise, determine that it is non-salient, and just straight up stop listening to it. Whereas my brain is still listening to the noise, is still using brain power to observe and analyse the sound, it's just not letting my conscious mind be aware of it.

It's kind of like, imagine you were walking down the street, and you felt AWFUL. You're tired, you're breathing way harder than usual, your arms are KILLING you, you're sweaty and achy and you have no idea why. Then you look down, and suddenly realise that you are carrying a very big and heavy box. And even though you weren't aware of the box, you were still having to do a tremendous amount of work to carry it, and that was making you exhausted.

Now a neurotypical person, they can just identify the box as unimportant and put it down. They're not doing the work of carrying the box anymore. But I can't identify whether the box is important, so I have to keep carrying. But instead my brain just kind of. Makes me forget that it's there. I'm still doing all the labour but I don't know where the effort is coming from.

I'm honestly not entirely sure why that happens. I ~suspect~ that it is at least partly yet another casualty of autistic masking, but it's also might just be my brain trying to spare me from having to think about it. Which is a massive pain because if I was made aware of it I could have put my ear plugs in sooner and not have gotten so wound up.

My point is, you may feel like you don't have a sensory processing disorder because you seem to "tune out" a lot of annoying noises for a long time, but I implore you to consider whether they might actually be wearing you down more than you realised because. That's a thing that can happen. It happened to my good friend, me.

[prokopetz]

I've never understood why folks are so weird about the Chocolate Guy making fruit out of fruit. Like, ideally fruit-flavoured confectionery ought to be flavoured with real fruit. You want us to go back to making artificial raspberry flavour out of beaver ass?

[thedupshadove]

I suppose the objection is, if you want something that tastes like (FRUIT) and looks like (FRUIT), and you already have (FRUIT), why remake (FRUIT) into (FRUIT)-flavored confectionary instead of just putting (FRUIT) in the chocolate sculpture whole and unaltered?

[truestoriesaboutme]

I think you're right but that's why I love it. It really throws the sheer ludicrousness of the whole enterprise into sharp relief. Turning chocolate into a record player is silly enough, but fully deconstructing a strawberry just to turn it into a strawberry again is ecstatic pointlessness. Ostentatiously unnecessary effort.

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

Maybe I'm the one misunderstanding, but it was my assumption that no one is actually upset or confused about the fruit? I thought we were all participating in the kayfabe where moral indignation and outrage is a means of expressing admiration for his skill and audacity? Like, I was pretty sure "we can't keep letting him do this" Is just a way of saying "wow, that guy is ridiculously talented"

[psychotic-gerard]

There has been a recall of SERTRALINE 100mg tablets batch number V2500425.

The regulator said 81,872 packs are included in the recall. Please check if you are on Sertraline. Thank you.

[wormthe]

Precautionary recall of antidepressant medication due to manufacturing error

The MHRA has advised healthcare professionals to stop supplying the affected batch of Sertraline 100mg and return all remaining stock to the

From what i've found it seems to be UK specific, but still worth a check. If you have Sertraline 100mg tablets, It might actually be Citalopram 40mg! Check the info on the box and on the blister strip containing the tablets.

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

I think I have the opposite of what the ASMR fans have. Those quiet little scrapy noises make my skin crawl. Can't stand the sound of whispering. Come at me with clicks that I'm not in control of and I will peel my own ears off in self defense

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

Hickory dickory dock, a mouse ran up the- no, I shan't say

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

A brief simulation of me doing very simple coding:

Okay, let's try- ah. No. Okay what if- nope. Hmm. Let's- nope, fuck. Why doesn't that work, that's annoying. Maybe if we break this down- MANY HOURS LATER No, fuck Fuck FUCK, the stupid shitting doesn't- if I could just- FUCK NO fucking SHIT damn bloody WANKER cocking- I swear to GOD I am going to blow up every shitting- oh! It's working!

Yay ^_^

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

Something they don't tell you is you can literally just embroider squiggles and no one can stop you

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

Literally they can't do anything about it

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

You should embroider french knots next

Get out of my anons you coward

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

Something they don't tell you is you can literally just embroider squiggles and no one can stop you

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

Media representation of DID is so wild. Like, "ooooh your sibling has OTHER PEOPLE in their head, so scary. Who knows what EVIL and SCARY plans they have" And meanwhile the other people is my nephew who loves Optimus Prime

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

My evil nefarious cousin who dwells in the dark recesses of my siblings' mind: I love cleaning my kitchen ^_^ #mykitchen