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♱Adrienne or Quinn♰|✟She/Him✞|20|sex-averse oriented aroace|Alloalterous and Aplatonic|Nullsex ⚲🏳️‍⚧️|autistic(level 2)with a language impairment specifier🧩|Niles Illinois|Black Jamaican🇯🇲|✝️Christian✝️

[berryautistic]

idk how to explain this but when higher support needs autistics complain about not having autism representation that represents them, and lower support needs autistics come in talking about "autistic-coded" characters, it kinda feels like a slap in the face.

like, i'm glad you feel represented by "autistic-coded" characters, but like... i want representation for level 2 and 3 autistics, low masking autistics, autistics who need caregivers, autistics who use aac (and not just high tech aac), multiply disabled autistics, autistics who have severe meltdowns, intellectually disabled autistics, autistics who need visible disability aids, autistics who need to be heavily accommodated or helped by others, etc etc etc.

it's okay to like autistic-coded characters, lower support needs characters, etc. i love those characters too! that kind of representation is also important! but i also think it would just be really nice and healing to see myself and my higher support needs autistic friends represented in media outside of just like, kids shows.

[invisibleoctopus]

Your moral ocd is lying to you and tumblr is lying to you. you do NOT have to reblog any post you dont want to and you dont need to justify it and youre not prejudiced against a certain marginalized group if you dont reblog an Upsetting Post about a Current Issue said group is facing

[unusualmuffinart]

I get so incredibly mad at seeing these "Autism stereotype" trends on Tiktok.

People who post videos of the trend are flexing since they apparently dont fit in the "autism stereotype" because they :

-have friends, can maintain friendships

-can live alone

-has a partner ( and not an "asexual loner " )

-can drive etc..

Like okay and??

Why do you have to look down on people with medium to high support needs, like it is a problem if I cant live alone and take care of myself and cannot maintain relationships?

I'm not a stereotype !!!

I'm a disabled person who needs accomodation and daily support !

It is so incredibly disrespectful to dismiss disabled people because they dont fit in your ideals and their traits are unappealing or "weird".

On the other part I also saw couple of videos where they fetishized disabled people.

Since some cishet men thinks it is so cute to have a quirky and nerdy autistic girlfriend because they are "not like other women" ....

I'm literally disgusted by these people.

Stop infantilizing and sexualizing disabled people.

Stop being ableist

[girlzheartmyswag]

Cassie bawling her eyes out and complaining about how it was supposed to be her special night while Nate is getting practically murdered is so fucking funny to me holy shit

[catboykatebush]

I hate posts of this genre so much. God forbid your DISABILITY actually DISABLES YOU???

If you genuinely think like this, you need to unpack why you think being an autistic person who can easily mask makes you so much better than autistic people whose autism DOES make them “weird”.

For fucks sake. Stop treating autism like it’s just a fun silly quirk that makes you better than everyone else (including MSN/HSN autistic people, who some of y’all basically treat like we’re a different species) instead of acknowledging that it’s a fucking developmental disorder. I’m not saying you can’t be proud of your autism, but trying to separate yourself from people who are more obviously disabled than you just makes you look like an ableist piece of shit. If autism is somehow not what you’d consider a disability for you, okay I guess, but you need to acknowledge that it IS a disability for MOST of us.

I’m so so tired of LSN autistics acting eager to put down and judge every autistic person who struggles more than they do. When these types of people say shit like “the world would be better if it were run by autistic people” they’re never talking about people like me and it shows. A lot of y’all only support or care about other autistic people if they have LSN like you do and it shows. Do better.

[autistic-twilight]

I think people have forgotten what high support needs means. It makes me frustrated. You are not high support needs if you can live on your own and hold a full time job. I am not sorry to say this.

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

uhhhm not to poke hornet nest but like. (scratches head) ok gentlest way possible

there many disabilities (n other experiences n identities in general) only one system member have/be when you aka the whole system aka “body” no have [edit: ? idk what this mess of paragraph be but mean to say there many disabilities (n other experiences n identities in general) that only the whole system aka “body” can have n not only individual system members n not others]

your system member can’t be autistic unless whole system body brain everyone be autistic - symptom may present different for various system member but entire system be autistic

would even go on say again yes different system member can have different experiences n needs… but it rly uncomfortable as higher support need person talk to someone who call self HSN n later find out they mean they as system member in system that… not HSN

same with nonverbal - yes can have system members who do not speak but it rly uncomfortable as nonverbal person talk to someone who call self nonverbal too n only later find out they mean they as system member in a verbal system

esp there are high support need systems there are nonverbal systems

your system member not intellectually disabled / have intellectual disability unless whole system be it have it

your system member not “have” facial difference or limb difference unless you bodily have facial or limb difference… having it in headspace not same as living w it external

n to echo my Deaf friends, your system member not be Deaf unless whole system Deaf - can absolutely have system member who not able hear but Deaf be very specific meaning

(in similar vein your system member not “Asian” “Black” etc unless you actually be Asian or Black or etc aka whole system “bodily” etc however wanna call it)

like idk how better way say it (or not want hornet nest explode onto face) but like. some things need be Bodily. there whole meaning n specific experiences n reasons n basis n often culture behind words

well aware some system / members see self as fully separate whole peoples within system n may even complete amnesia every time but still following that logic n term n perspective it be very different from i guess living full time in body minds with that specific thing or systems who live in body minds w that specific thing.

not open to any more “syscourse” convo this not be invitation

[aguas-hot]

[autistikait-moved]

Okay, we need to get some things straight before we continue posting.

One, and most importantly, being autistic doesn't mean superpower. It's fine to see some positives in your autism, but it's not fine to mislead yourself by saying that it is a superpower for both yourself and for the others also diagnosed with autism.

Secondly, and connected to point one, i really hate it when people try anything possible to avoid calling their autism, a disability that requires a diagnosis for certain types of supports, a disability simply because they don't struggle a lot. If you are diagnosed, you are disabled.

I really don't get why people connotate the word disability to a negative meaning, can someone actually explain this to me please?

[tsaheylu-addict]

teylan is never escaping the ipad kid allegations i fear

[endlesss-rain]

[asexual-amanita]

Ok, I’m not the best person to be saying this, but the reason half of y’all* hate the new autistic Barbie doll is just aspie supremacy and racism.

Like, “oh no! For once a higher support needs, AAC using, autistic woman of colour is in the spotlight! God help us all!” (Sarcasm)

Seriously, the whole argument about how the doll sucks because autism “doesn’t have a look” is foolish. Autism does have a look, but it’s not one single look. Many high support needs individuals are visibly autistic, stop erasing their existence.

I’m not going into the racism part, because I’m still in the process of educating myself about the topic, but needless to say, I’ve seen some pretty outright racist comments and takes on this new doll.

*not all of you, but many of you.

(Capitalism and the whole deal with Mattel is a valid reason to not like the doll, however this post is not about that.)

[tenitchyfingers]

“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”

— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Note the date, people:

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.

[queerhumanbeing]

supporting my asexual friends and foes by rebbloging this

[freyjawriter24]

It’s 50 years this month since the first version of the Asexual Manifesto was written. Aces have been writing about our experiences under this name for at least half a century. We are not an internet fad.

[dirtytransmasc]

thinking about how hard Spider tried to save his little brother...

the way he literally tries to curl his body around Neteyam to shield the wound from the open water makes me want to vomit.

he was both the eldest and the smallest. he was brave and just moved on instinct. his only words were encouraging Lo'ak that he had Neteyam, or to urge them forward. he did everything he could to help, using all his strength to hold Neteyam onto the Ilu and help lift him, even when his little brother was so much bigger than himself. like. he's just a kid. he held onto 'teyam with everything he had. cause that was his brother.

[aw-tysm]

Some autistics have an odd view on what a special interest within autism actually is, and it's a very damaging take.

Special interests within autism can cause clinically significant impairments in one's life.

Special interests can borderline obsession and addiction and compulsion. They can even run inline with addiction, obsession, and compulsion.

Special interests aren't always knowing everything about it, researching it, and infodumping, or engaging in it in multiple ways.

Sometimes autistics don't know much about them, some will not research them, some autistics won't infodump about them. Some autistics only every engage in their interest in a very restricted and fixated way, a very limited way.

I honestly think some autistics get special interests and hobbies mixed up. You are allowed to have hobbies you are very passionate about, love to talk about, and have a vast knowledge on them. There are many allistics in this world who have hobbies just like that and with such an intensity.

Special interests for autistics aren't always cute and quirky and fun. They can be damaging and impairing, and cause stress/anxiety. They can be inappropriate, dangerous, or bad.

[varangx]

avatar fans who have no taste: ugh i wish that white boy died

spider:

[discoursedamaged]

anyone claiming that terfs "protect the medical rights of transmascs/afabs/natal females" is either a terf or extremely susceptible to their rhetoric. First off, wanting to make ftm transition illegal is going against people's medical rights. Second, it takes literally any degree of pushback for the "women supporting women" veneer to drop off and them to say that actually, trans men getting denied healthcare is just them fucking around and finding out. Ask them how their "no males at the gynecologist" plans account for trans men with M in their papers and they'll gleefully tell you that in their perfect system, trans men won't be able to change their sex assignment at all. The average terf's solution to trans men and transmascs being denied so-called women's healthcare is forced detransition.

these screenshots are from 2022: