Autistic Alligator

Autistic-Alligator has been re-created to keep the meme alive on Tumblr. I am not the original creator of the meme or the blog.

[autistic-alligator]

[Image of meme; Top text:  "Learn that something else you do is a stim" Bottom text:  " ‘Am I ever not stimming?’ “]

~Mat'thew

[surrah698]

Yuh, I'm a creature of habit 😁

[autistic-alligator]

Image of a cat sitting at a table, in front of a meal (waffle with butter plus a cup of something.) The waffle is labeled "The same meal for the 999th time" and the cat is labeled "My autistic ass."

[golbatsforequality]

Don’t do racist or ableist things as “spooky” Halloween costumes.  This includes thinking critically about costumes, party themes, and activities BEFORE you do them.

“Well, gee, I didn’t realize that a haunted house set in an abandoned “insane asylum” was ableist!”  Really.  Did you really.  Did you even try.

–Golbat

[golbatsforequality]

Equality Golbat: If you’d rather pay a doctor to “fix” your child because acceptance is hard work, did you forget it was hard work to get that money in the first place?

One of things you need confront before you ever think about having kids, is that your kids are not going to be you. Those kids might end up radically different from you. Don’t ever say that if your kids aren’t exactly like you, that they’re bad people. 

There are a lot of different people in this world. All we want is to be happy and secure in our lives and in ourselves. There are a lot of different ways to be happy and secure and to do good in the world. Do not be your kid’s bully. Guide them to whatever way helps them be happy and secure and able to do good in the world. 

You might not understand your kid’s definition of happy and secure. But your kid will be infinitely better off if you help them come into their own, rather than force them into being someone they’re not.

-Glaceon

[golbatsforequality]

Neuroqueer Nidoqueen: “If you disagree with the autism rights movement, don’t worry. I’m sure that people who are categorically defined as stubborn and obsessive will give up soon.”

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” –Arthur Schopenhauer

–Nidoqueen

[autistic-alligator]

[fuckyeahstimming]

*because it will make us stim

[Image is the autistic alligator meme format, reading “Put on music that you know will make you stim. Listen to it anyway.”]

[dale-afficanado-blueberry]

I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:

Terms of Service | Discord

Read about Discord's Terms of Service

You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to [email protected] within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.

These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )

[ganurath]

#whats arbitration someone help me

Bad news, @noodelzmop. Arbitration basically means that if you want to sue Discord for whatever reason, the dispute needs to be handled in house. Specifically, in their house. If you don't get this email out, you're basically signing away your right to legal recourse if they do criminally shitty stuff to you, like with the McDonalds app.

[dale-afficanado-blueberry]

I have been told that emailing "I am confirming that as of the date of this email, I am choosing to opt out of binding arbitration to settle disputes with Discord." With the Email you used for your discord account is enough for the notice but take this with a grain of salt as this was not said by a lawyer

[everyone-needs-a-hoopoe]

reiterating that this only applies to US users

[batsandboba]

THIRTY DAY LIMIT BTW. I suggest taking sixty seconds to fire off a quick email with op’s recommended text. I have no plans to sue discord but better safe than sorry

[autistic-alligator]

[fuckyeahstimming]

Autistic alligator meme template with text: Listen to a song for the first time and thing “This is so weird.” Listen to it 20 more times.

[Thing is probably a typo for think.]

[kaldurcalm-deactivated20240513]

This starts out as a nice gesture, then quickly becomes absolutely ridiculous.

1,024 dice. Man.

[cipheramnesia]

The transition from innate human kindness wanting to pass something forward and monkey brain want make chaos is really sharp and sudden.

[autistic-alligator]

Submission by neuroatypically-speaking

[autistic-alligator]

Autistic alligator meme. Top text: Have to use public transportation. Bottom text: Only survive due to iPod and 3 feet of satin ribbon

[autistic-alligator]

[autistic-alligator]

Autistic alligator meme. Top text: Overanalyze everything. Bottom text: Why an alligator?

[autistic-alligator]

[autistic-alligator]

Autistic alligator meme. Top text: Do you mean exactly the same. Bottom text: Or just arbitrarily close to the same

[intosnarkness]

the first day of my hand drafting class in my senior year of college, after the prof taught us how to frame up on the drafting table and went over how to use the tools we'd bought, he had us all take our pencils and make a mark on the top right corner of the vellum. then he walked us through the setup steps - the border, the title block, etc.

and he told us to erase the mark.

when someone - rosie, i think - asked what the mark was for he smiled.

"if you give a novice student an expensive, blank piece of paper, they panic. they think if i start using that i will ruin it. so the first thing i want all of you to do, any time you stare at a blank piece of paper, is to ruin it a little and take the pressure off yourself. pencil erases. anxiety has to be managed."

i hated that man for a myriad of reasons, but that was some of the best advice i've ever been given.

[intosnarkness]

There have been some reblogs of this that assert it works with writing if you keysmash or outline or whatever, and here is the secret, my blueberries; it works with everything.

Afraid of a recipe? Fuck up your prep a little- mildly sloppy knife work is usually easy to fix and ignore. Now something has gone wrong. Nervous about a conversation? Make a purposeful mistake in the beginning that you can correct easily. Move on and keep going. Anxious about public speaking? Screw something up in an easy to ignore way. I like to mispronounce a word.

The trick here is that the call is coming from inside the house. Your brain is the only one who is demanding that you do things perfectly the first time. You can (and will) make a million little mistakes. None of them will be the end of the world. But if what you need is to control the situation, then control it. Ruin it on purpose and then erase the error.

[autistic-alligator]

[Image of meme; Top text:  "Learn that something else you do is a stim" Bottom text:  " ‘Am I ever not stimming?’ “]

~Mat'thew

[autistic-alligator]

[Image of meme; Top text:  "Find a place that uses interaction signal badges"  Bottom text:  " ‘Where have these been all my life!?’ “]

You can read about interaction signal badges here.

~Mat'thew

[autistic-alligator]

[Image of meme; Top text:  ”Find Autistic Alligator” Bottom Text:  ”Spend 20 minutes passing mouse over the rotating alligator before actually reading something”]

Submission by anonymous

[autistic-alligator]

[Image of meme; Top text:  "Get touched by bug"  Bottom text:  "Have uncontrollable desire to wash body area"]

Submission by dolbyunloco