[traumasurvivors]

Don’t listen to anyone that tells you you should be “over it” by now (including yourself). There is no timeline for healing. 

[thetrashisout]

Render reboot - a rework of my third render in my current style

[aidashakur]

You are not meant to be everyone's healer.

[thurstonwaffles]

Professional food acquisition specialist hard at work.

[princvsx]

Just a reminder in case your mind is playing tricks on you today: You matter. You’re important. You’re loved & your presence on this earth makes a difference whether you see it or not

[magnetothemagnificent]

Nothing pisses me off more than autistic folks who know the history and STILL choose to refer to themselves as having Asperger's. Sorry, you don't Get to reclaim that word. Hans Asperger was a Nazi, and especially if you're a white gentile, you don't get to "reclaim" it. Sorry. You don't.

Sincerely, an autistic Jew

[gay-jesus-probably]

And like, he wasn’t just a Nazi, he was a Nazi whose specific job was evaluating autistic kids to decide if they should be murdered or not. The difference between asperger’s and autism is just the arbitrary criteria he had for which children lived and which ones died.

You can’t ‘reclaim’ the term Asperger’s, because the whole fucking point of the term is to say some people with a certain handful of symptoms shouldn’t be lumped in with the rest of us autistic people, because they’re fundamentally better for having that specific set of symptoms. It’s a term that prioritizes stepping on your own community to cater to neurotypicals (and yknow fucking nazis in case anyone forgot that part). There’s no reclaiming that can happen here; if someone says they have Asperger’s, I feel very unsafe around them, because I’m rightfully afraid they’re going to look down on me for being autistic.

Stop using Asperger’s. There’s no excuse.

[kristalpepsi]

Me: *takes ur lil mannerisms n vocab quirks bc we r friends n i am a sponge*

[magnetothemagnificent]

Nothing pisses me off more than autistic folks who know the history and STILL choose to refer to themselves as having Asperger's. Sorry, you don't Get to reclaim that word. Hans Asperger was a Nazi, and especially if you're a white gentile, you don't get to "reclaim" it. Sorry. You don't.

Sincerely, an autistic Jew

[headspace-hotel]

I’m gonna be real here, I take neurotypicals’ opinions on “weird” people far more seriously than I take their statements of support for me or for autistic people in general.

Like your opinions on furries (putting aside any sexual connotations) are HONESTLY a better litmus test of whether you are a safe person for me or any autistic people than your opinions on Five Year Old Boy Disease.

[headspace-hotel]

let me explain…

No one would think it was funny to bully an Autistic Child™, and you don’t think bullying Autistic Children™ is funny! That’s horrible! But when I say that story about a “weird kid” you knew that got bullied isn’t funny, you’re like “Well…that’s different! She was really weird, I mean she MEOWED at people!”

…bruh

[octopuscato]

Yup. “Of course I support you, autistic person, but look at this guy over there being weird!” So what you’re telling me is you’re supporting me, who is autistic, as long as I don’t behave autistic. Got it. Bye.

[rorytelling]

“We’re not making fun of him for being autistic, we’re making fun of him for being weird”

[pinstripes-of-doom-deactivated2]

people think taking things literally is just like

not getting jokes and sarcasm

when in my experience it's more like

thinking you have to fulfill 100% of the exact requirements for something, when everyone else apparently knows it's actually a bit flexible

answering rhetorical questions and everyone thinking you're stupid

SAYING something with a literal meaning and others interpreting it figuratively

following instructions to a T but not knowing how to modify them if something goes wrong

wait that song was talking about WHAT??

doing EXACTLY what someone asked of you and them getting mad that it wasn't what they meant or actually wanted

being terrified of people's empty threats or hyperbole without realizing they didn't actually mean it

memorizing all the connotations of different words so you can use them as precisely as possible, getting frustrated when others are inexact

still not getting jokes and sarcasm

[headspace-hotel]

...oh

[100493503004422]

me [completely out of touch with my feelings, trying to describe an emotion]: I feel, um, glittery? buzzy. like peeling my skin off

[headspace-hotel]

I’m gonna be real here, I take neurotypicals’ opinions on “weird” people far more seriously than I take their statements of support for me or for autistic people in general.

Like your opinions on furries (putting aside any sexual connotations) are HONESTLY a better litmus test of whether you are a safe person for me or any autistic people than your opinions on Five Year Old Boy Disease.

[headspace-hotel]

let me explain...

No one would think it was funny to bully an Autistic Child(tm), and you don’t think bullying Autistic Children(tm) is funny! That’s horrible! But when I say that story about a “weird kid” you knew that got bullied isn’t funny, you’re like “Well...that’s different! She was really weird, I mean she MEOWED at people!”

...bruh

[headspace-hotel]

"Where has all the genuine self-expression gone? Now what used to be authentic subculture is turned into a performance of Aesthetic!" so many posts exclaim, usually concluding that the problem is Capitalism.

I don't disagree entirely, but. The problem is that y'all are so deathly fucking afraid of things Cringe, Weird, and Uncool that anything unmarketable, subversive, or oddball enough to be "genuine subculture" is gross and unacceptable to you.

[zeebzorp]

Black cats are so stupid I love them

[cheetah-reblogs-shit]

[ID: a collection of drawings of black cats in silly positions. end ID]

[filmnoirsbian]

Casual cruelty has become so ingrained in a lot of people because we live in a society that is structured in a cruel way. To be quite honest you are obligated to consider the harm of your words and actions no matter your personal hardships.

[museiums]

artist: margaret jeane

[plumbits]

Since the topic of outdoor cats is making the rounds again, I'd just like to remind everyone that pretty much every animal that comes into the rehab center for a cat bite dies within 24 hours, whether their injuries are severe or not. This shit is ridiculous and I'm really sick of people being willfully obtuse and just downright lazy when it comes to their pet care and consideration for native wildlife. Be. Better. Cat. Owners.