Actually autistic. Not actually Martin Crieff

I'm a 33 year old autistic agender person. They/them pronouns, please.

[unlessimwrongwhichyouknowimnot]

Autistic Arthur Shappey (Cabin Pressure)

Cabin Pressure is a BBC radio show following the four members of MJN Air, an airdot (because you need more than one plane to have an airline) run by Carolyn Knapp-Shappey. Arthur Shappey is the steward of the plane and Carolyn’s son. Arthur is voiced by John Finnemore, the creator of Cabin Pressure who also wrote every episode.

Arthur stood out to me as autistic from the 2nd episode when he mentioned taking a course on understanding people. Because autistic headcanons are turning into a new special interest of mine, I decided to create this list of reasons why Arthur is very much autistic. (I’m also working on one for Martin Crieff, another character on the show.)

The traits focused on were taken from this list of Inclusive Autistic Traits.

All the examples below were taken from transcripts at this website. 

Keep reading

[bendingthewillow]

This is, in a word…. BRILLIANT!

[clairedrawsairdraws]

this text post seemed very martin crieff to me

[autisticmartincrieff]

Kieran: What are your outside interests?

Martin: Outside of... what?

Kieran: Outside flying.

Martin: Outside flying? You mean, what am I interested in apart from flying?

[ghostbees]

“You can’t speak to me like that. I’m the captain!”

[failfred-bitchcock]

anyway why does benedict cumberbatch keep getting cast as those tall, silent, broody, intimidating types when his best role to date is a tiny anxious pilot with a superiority complex who screams constantly that’s what i’d like to know

[jolokiamoruga-deactivated201608]

Fitton-inspired Haiku

I’m an aeroplane!

Fly away, little Martin.

Don’t give up, Captain.

[bendingthewillow]

Autistic!Martin and Autistic!Arthur reblog if you agree

[bendingthewillow]

@goldenheartedrose

[the-ninth-arcanum]

WWCCD? [What Would Captain Crieff Do?]

[skipthatsbrilliant]

most Martin Crieff I’ve ever been: having a nightmare that somebody called me unprofessional

[singitfromtheheart]

you don’t even need any factual backup to headcanon a character as autistic tbh. they don’t need to have whatever you consider to be “common autistic traits”. if an autistic person wants to headcanon a character as autistic because they identify with that character, or because it makes them feel good, or for whatever reason, let them.

[singitfromtheheart]

I’ve seen allistic people reblogging this post and that actually makes me really happy. thank you for listening to autistic voices stay tolerant and stay lovely

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

Like stop putting your disease “if you even have it” on a damn pedestal

[autisticmartincrieff]

Continues to not hate myself = putting myself on a pedestal? Fuck you, asshole.

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

No no, you’re just flaunting your disability about for attention. You…

[james-fergo-deactivated20151125]

I think you should be worried about the other autistic people that don’t like having their disability worn like some kind of costume

[autisticmartincrieff]

How is putting a part of me that is a description of a fucking huge part of my identity wearing it like a costume? Because a costume you can take off. I can’t just magically become not autistic. So yeah I fail to see your point.

Also other autistic people don’t get to tell me how to feel about being autistic. And apparently putting the word in my blog name is offensive somehow? Explain that to me because it makes zero logical sense.

[james-fergo-deactivated20151125]

Costume. As in URL.

My problem is people will start noticing all these disabilities floating around on URL’s and think it’s some kind of game.

Then they’ll start putting it on their Urals whether they have that disability or not.

You can be proud but waving it around like a flag will make other take it less seriously. Especially on this website.

[autisticmartincrieff]

Interesting since I follow about a dozen or so blogs with urls like that and shocker! They're all actual autistic people. Funny how that happens, right?

Maybe if you asked questions of disabled people instead of making asinine assumptions, you'd actually learn something.

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

Like stop putting your disease “if you even have it” on a damn pedestal

[autisticmartincrieff]

Continues to not hate myself = putting myself on a pedestal? Fuck you, asshole.

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

No no, you’re just flaunting your disability about for attention. You…

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

You don’t need to hate yourself for it and you shouldn’t, you can be proud of it. You just don’t need to shove it in other people’s faces for attention and special snowflake points

[autisticmartincrieff]

I’m really not, though? I don’t know why people are so insistent on calling people who aren’t neurotypical “special snowflakes” but ok if that makes you feel better.

I am Autistic. I talk about autism a LOT both on this blog and my main blog because surprise! It’s relevant to my life. People can choose to follow me or not. I don’t really care. So your crappy idea of using it for points is silly and a bit ridiculous.

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

One of the main things i hate is putting it in front of the name of a fictional character. It’s stupid and it makes it seem like you’re demeaning the disease. It looks like you’re using it for attention even if you aren’t. You can do it if you want, I can’t stop you, but I don’t have to like it.

[autisticmartincrieff]

Even when the creator of said character admitted that it's absolutely 100% correct and okay to interpret the character that way because he does have many signs of the diagnosis? Because that is a thing that happened and Hey maybe if we had more explicit representation in media that wasn't Rain Man and sad disabled tragedy that is SO HARD FOR PARENTS TO HANDLE we wouldn't have to headcanon characters as disabled because there would already be autistic characters out there. I mean that doesn't mean there wouldn't be any headcanons ever but we wouldn't need as many. Autistic people make up close to 3 percent of the population depending on what stats you use. So theoretically, we should have 3 percent of the characters portrayed in media that we can relate to and that isn't the case.

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

Like stop putting your disease “if you even have it” on a damn pedestal

[autisticmartincrieff]

Continues to not hate myself = putting myself on a pedestal? Fuck you, asshole.

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

No no, you’re just flaunting your disability about for attention. You…

[james-fergo-deactivated20151125]

I think you should be worried about the other autistic people that don’t like having their disability worn like some kind of costume

[autisticmartincrieff]

How is putting a part of me that is a description of a fucking huge part of my identity wearing it like a costume? Because a costume you can take off. I can't just magically become not autistic. So yeah I fail to see your point.

Also other autistic people don't get to tell me how to feel about being autistic. And apparently putting the word in my blog name is offensive somehow? Explain that to me because it makes zero logical sense.

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

Like stop putting your disease “if you even have it” on a damn pedestal

[autisticmartincrieff]

Continues to not hate myself = putting myself on a pedestal? Fuck you, asshole.

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

No no, you’re just flaunting your...

[autisticmartincrieff]

This is kind of why I use the side blog tbh

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

Like stop putting your disease “if you even have it” on a damn pedestal

[autisticmartincrieff]

Continues to not hate myself = putting myself on a pedestal? Fuck you, asshole.

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

No no, you’re just flaunting your disability about for attention. You…

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

You don’t need to hate yourself for it and you shouldn’t, you can be proud of it. You just don’t need to shove it in other people’s faces for attention and special snowflake points

[autisticmartincrieff]

I'm really not, though? I don't know why people are so insistent on calling people who aren't neurotypical "special snowflakes" but ok if that makes you feel better.

I am Autistic. I talk about autism a LOT both on this blog and my main blog because surprise! It's relevant to my life. People can choose to follow me or not. I don't really care. So your crappy idea of using it for points is silly and a bit ridiculous.

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

you know a blog is bad when the url is "autistic____"

Like stop putting your disease “if you even have it” on a damn pedestal

[gryblogs]

Not sure what the first sentence has to do with the second, unless OP honestly thinks autism is a disease

/flaunts the cold bug I currently have instead

[autisticmartincrieff]

Yeah I think they do think that.

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

you know a blog is bad when the url is "autistic____"

Like stop putting your disease “if you even have it” on a damn pedestal

[autisticmartincrieff]

Continues to not hate myself = putting myself on a pedestal? Fuck you, asshole.

[king-of-the-roses-deactivated20]

No no, you’re just flaunting your disability about for attention. You can not hate yourself without shining a bright light on your disability for sympathy points

[autisticmartincrieff]

Newsflash : I don't hate myself and a big part of myself is being autistic. There is nothing bad or wrong about that and I feel a bit sorry for you that this particular fact makes you feel weird or uncomfortable to the point that you feel the need to mock people who do want to highlight that part of their identity, people who have spent years and perhaps even decades being told that they should hide who they are for the comfort of everyone else.

I'm not ashamed of who I am and yeah I'm proudly disabled. It's kind of your problem if you don't like that, so maybe you should deal with your own self.