Autistic Punk

25+ | Autistic | Queer | Nonbinary | You must be a level 10 friend to unlock my tragic backstory

[aaitwo-deactivated20250816]

reblog to hit me with a cardboard tube

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the distinction between “venomous” and “poisonous” exists mainly as enrichment for annoying people who like to hear themselves talk

[normal-horoscopes]

If it's beneath the Earth's crust it's poison, once it reaches the surface it just becomes sparkling venom.

[stampothy]

I thought it was poisonous if it was from the cave ceiling but venomous if it grew from the bottom?

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

actually it’s poisonous while it’s burning up in the atmosphere but it’s venomous once it strikes the Earth’s surface

[butterflyinthewell]

If it’s black it’s Venom and if it’s red it’s Carnage.

[runby2]

Remember if you’re out at a store and someone says “This is a robbery” you can say “no it’s not” and then the robber will leave because theyre a robber and this is no longer a robbery .

[runby2]

You can not just say this without dropping the whole story

[alonelybeemakingart]

Ok so,

My dads coworker is at the front and this man comes Up and hands him a document.

The coworker took a Look at the document and while he couldn't read the things written by Hand, because he wasn't wearing his glases, he did notice the Logo of a different Bank so he's like:

"Oh, sorry sir you can't do that here! You have to go to the other Bank for this :)"

The man, visibly confused leaves, but dosen't take the document with him.

The coworker, now just as confused as the Guy actually Takes Out his glases and reads the hand written part:

This is a robbery

[gay-jesus-probably]

Can you imagine trying to rob a god damn bank and the teller just cheerfully tells you to go rob the competition instead

[theprofessional-amateur-deactiv]

I worked as a bank teller for several years and a few things you should know, bank robberies happen far more frequently than you might think and they come in waves. When a bank gets robbed a notification with photos goes to all banks in the area to be on the lookout. And there are two kinds of robbery, the pass the note and the takeover (what you see in movies).

So our branch had had a big takeover robbery as well as a note one. We also had a teller that had transferred to our branch after having been through a robbery. She was sweet as apple pie, hair up to the ceiling, southern lady who had just been through multiple robberies.

A guy comes in and hands her a folded note. Her immediate thought was “this guy needs to learn you don’t hand bank tellers notes. I am just not going to read that.” So how the conversation goes:

Her: how can I help you today?

Him: I’m here to get money

Her: great *hands him a withdrawal slip*

Him: all the information is on the paper

Her: to process the transaction I need you to put it on my piece of paper

SO HE FILLS OUT A WITHDRAWAL SLIP. Meanwhile another coworker is looking at her latest robbery notification email thinking the guy at the window looks a lot like him but the teller is calm and seems to be following standard transaction.

Back at the window the teller notices his name on the withdrawal slip doesn’t match the name on the account so she asks for his ID. He once again tells her all the relevant info is on the folded note but also gives her his ID and says it is his dad’s account. She tells him he will need a check from his dad to get cash. He grabs the note and leaves.

ONE HOUR LATER

Two new robbery notifications hit our emails, both branches within a mile. It is our guy. Teller goes over to the manager and sheepishly informs them he was here and the time. Security department is notified as are local police and the FBI. The FBI comes over believing that these poor tellers had been robbed for the 3rd time in a month and take her statement. She is completely embarrassed telling them how everything went down and he kept signaling to the note and telling her to read it but she was just done.

To which this FBI agent of 40 years who has been to the scene of many bank robberies (several at this branch in recent weeks) says: Ok. Let me see if I got this right, he came in fully intending to rob you. He gave you the note and you just…refused to read it? So he left and went to the bank literally across the street, handed them the exact same note, and they just handed him five grand? Do I have that correct?”

Her: I am so embarrassed

FBI: this is best thing I have ever heard. He even handed you his ID! Holy-

Her: I feel so dumb!

FBI: don’t! This is the best thing I have ever heard. This is going to be in training courses. (He sat there giddy for at least 5 more minutes)

[vintageeveryday]

An 18th century travel female urinal with an eye portrait and the inscription “Ha je te vois petit coquin,” which roughly translates to “Ha! I see you, little rascal.”

[retroactivebakeries]

#there it is… the icup

[ryan-sometimes]

It would be so funny if autistic people started describing allistic experience the same pathologised way doctors describe autism

[ryan-sometimes]

Symptoms of being neurotypical:

You have immobile, frozen hands that do not fidget.

Your interests are shallow.

You read into phrases past their actual meanings.

You are unbothered by eye contact and enjoy staring into people’s eyeballs.

You do not notice patterns in numbers and objects even when they are logically connected.

You don’t mind doing things without planning them out first.

Instead of saying exactly what you think, you expect others to infer it based on subjective social rules.

[ryan-sometimes]

Don’t be discouraged if you’re neurotypical. If you work hard, you too can be decent at math and accomplish the same things autistic people can!

[blackwoolncrown]

Further symptoms of neurotypicality: - lacking in autotelia; seldom partakes in any activity without an external motivation. Prefers things that others prefer- avoids things not first approved of by social circle. -pro-authoritativeness; prefers taking orders to self-directed actions. low self-preservational drive against being influenced. will follow directions even if they are contradicting or unclear. - chromophobic; shows little or only selective affinity for color and secondary chromatic harmonies. -absent psychochemical regulation; does not self regulate strong emotions via body movements, tends to repress or overtly act them out at length instead. -reduced neotony; despite neotony being a primary characteristic of homosapiens, neurotypicals shed an uncharacteristically high amount of ‘childhood’ behaviors such as creativity, friendliness and affinity for play after adulthood and struggle to regain them, even when this negatively impacts their health. -sensory locking; synesthesia is low in neurotypicals, reducing their ability to perceive secondary sensory experiences- i.e. the ‘smell’ of a color, the ‘texture’ of a sound, etc. Researchers believe this is due to lowered hemispheric coherence in the brain. -assumptive thinking; neurotypicals operate out of an assumption-based worldview, rarely asking questions or even understanding that information has been left out. Thus their relationships and worldview may suffer. -poor memory; due to the lack of secondary sensory information given by patterns, colors, or other synesthetic perception, neurotypicals fail to absorb information at ‘high definition’, impairing their recall ability.

[campyvillain]

compiling these

[fluxbird-deactivated20210510]

i think a lot of neurotypicals misunderstand what “routine” means in the context of autistic ppl needing routine. they seem very fixated on the idea that routine means doing the same thing at the same time every day (eg always eating at 12, always showering at 7, idk, stuff like that) and they don’t seem to get that while yes, those are a kind of routine that some autistic ppl need/like, it’s not the only thing. 

like for me, for example, it is way more important that the songs i listen to play in the right order and that the right kind of audio is on in the background when i do different tasks than it is that i do said tasks at a specific time of day. the routines that are important to me are about how i do things, not when. but nt ppl don’t understand this. 

why is this important? bc i have had So. Many. neurotypicals tell me that the reason i’m depressed/anxious/not feeling well is that i don’t have enough of those when routines in my life. that obviously if i made sure to always shower at the exact same time of day i wouldn’t be depressed. that obviously if i made sure to always get up at exactly the same time, no wiggle room of even a minute, then i wouldn’t be anxious. “because you’re autistic!” they say, “and routines are important for you! you’ve even said so yourself!”

and then they proceed to not take the actual reasons why i’m feeling unwell seriously, because obviously if an autistic person isn’t living minute by minute according to a schedule that dictates their every move then that has to be the cause of all their problems. 

[vassraptor]

reblogging this not for the NTs who misunderstand, but for other autistics reading this and going “wait, what i am doing is… a routine?”

[honestlyvan]

My takeaway from this is that routines have the same communicational ambiguity as the concept of “scripts”.

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

[thedeliaishere]

Likes charge reblogs cast

[animalcrossingmemes]

[bowsersex-deactivated20220424]

I love abortion. And vaccines. Autism too.

[lachonk]

mark your calendars, fellas

[lachonk]

today's the day!!!!!!

[lachonk]

happy dick day 2021 everybody 💖

[autpunkotter]

actuallyautistic autpunk flag!!

i also want to clarify that i intended diversity to be like, observable differences, vs individualaity being mental differences (i. e., some autistic folk have severe motor complications whereas some other autistic may not).

[blelbinems-deactivated20190925]

fucks sake

[doctordragon]

god dammit

[setsu-nana]

Okay now which one is clearer? 1?

or 2?

[heckheckhheck-deactivated201712]

S T O P

[lazy--tuesday-deactivated201806]

Maybe just take off the glasses!?

[turtlemuffinbutt]

[im-happy-at-home]

This spoke to my soul wth

[post-store]

$39.99

[cannibal-rainbow]

Not shaving and not wearing make up are literally nonbehaviors. They’re a complete lack of action. But doing nothing is considered masculine because women are not allowed to just be. this goes double for trans women.

[cannibal-rainbow]

reblog this version because transmisogynists don’t know how to fuck off.

[aidashakur]

[prettyguardianmarz]

I’m a genuine person with no malice in my heart

[feelingbluepolitics]

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

100% TRUE

[sallyyates]

Pro tip: If you copy and paste a link that said “no free articles” into a private/incognito browser, it will let you read the whole thing.

[fail-sage]

also if u press the “esc” (escape) key on ur laptop before the page fully loads, it won’t load any pop-ups blocking u from reading. if the article has images, then this method sometimes does not u see them. but! the words will be fine :)

[bestgirlsystem]

If the site is particularly badly designed, you might just be able to delete the overlay itself. Right click > Inspect element and delete the line of HTML (it’ll be highlighted automatically)

[woodentempest]

hey kids there is a website called outline.com that will let you read from pretty much any news site with a paywall for free

[runcibility]

outline.com is amazing - it hasn’t failed yet on any site that I’ve tried it on.

There’s a chrome extension and firefox extension.

[venusologist]

All of these resources are incredible but don’t forget how fucked it is that we have to do this.