The Whimsical Adventures of Me @fireextinquisher - Tumblr Blog

POV: mister Devon Price, PhD, telling me that I am right about everything

Source: Unmasking Autism, discovering the new faces of neurodiversity

On the "needing days to recover and recharge" point; I'm not autistic, but I do have cptsd, and this goes to show that there's so many reasons to normalize everything on this list! Seriously!

guerrillatech

jv

This is ... kind of crazy, because it shows pretty perfectly the differences in urban planning. To build like that is a choice, not a need.

This is Real Madrid's stadium (80k seats):

This is FC Barcelona's (100k seats):

This is Paris Saint Germain's stadium (50k):

This is Wembley (90k):

This is Boca Junior's (57k)

This is Japan National Stadium:

There shouldn't be any infrastructure or building in any city where people could not just ... walk there.

cynicalneoprincessism

A slightly cursed photo of my coord from early November.

See my latest blog post to get my coord rundown~

Cynical Neo Princessism

femcelgirlie

the girlies reading

isabelcanasauthor

me today honestly

a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark

In the immortal words of Granny Weatherwax. "I aten't dead."

brightlotusmoon

Exactly.

Also my old friends group used to say "not on fire."

rafawriter

silenceinternalmonologue

thinking about how i just… never complained about anything as an undiagnosed autistic kid. i was dressed in button-down shirts that made me feel like i was choking all day to the point i could only think about that and corduroy pants that filled my ears with nothing but the sound of the fabric rubbing between my thighs all day. i was fed food whose texture made me feel sick. i was scolded for being strange and rude when i was going out of my way to be nice or helpful.

but i never brought it up. when i had tantrums or cried, it was always about tiny unrelated things that set me off after all the stress had built up. i knew that these experiences were uncomfortable, but seeing no one else around me complain about them just made me assume that life was meant to be kind of painful in those ways.

even today it barely crosses my mind to tell people when i don’t like something, and i’m quick to accept requests that are actually too much for me because of the idea that everyone else can do it. ironically, most neurotypical people are much better at saying that they don’t want to do something, even when this is often due to something as simple as not feeling like it as opposed to me who is struggling due to sensory, executive function, or socializing issues.

i wish i had learned earlier that it’s not just good, but also necessary to tell people when something is hurting you. that you’re both allowed and supposed to take action to make life less painful for yourself, especially when that pain isn’t going to earn you anything. i wish i was able to make requests for my own good without automatically feeling guilty for being ‘selfish’.

dysautonomia

This hits terribly close to home.

shelgon

maelwife

Do NOT buy this pocky it tastes like DOG SHIT

maelwife

Unrelated but this incense smells kinda good almost like s’mores

calebwittebane

"mens section"... more like where the hot women shop

solfungus-deactivated20220629

"womens section"... more like where the hot men shop

casmick-consequences

"soup section"... more like where's the clothes

escuerzoresucitado

cuddling

raccooninapartyhat

kinda confused about why the dialogue surrounding disability has changed from "we are still worthy and have personhood even if we can't do the things everyone else can, and we deserve to participate in society" to "nobody would be disabled if society was just shaped the right way"

like I'm pretty sure that I'd still be blind and unable to play most video games even if every video game included accessibility features. I'd still be deaf and unable to understand people over phones and intercoms even if everyone knew how to sign. I'd still find it hard to walk around even if there were ramps and elevators instead of stairs

disability doesn't just vanish with accessibility, it just means we are more likely to be able to participate in life

and also, when did people start to be so afraid of accepting that some of us will be disabled no matter what access arrangements we have in place? why do we lose our worthiness? why do we lose our personhood?