[vcmiting]

[nno-risk-deactivated20220210]

this is what i came here for

[liftingessential]

My future child❤️

[paon-de-jour-deactivated2022111]

[life-inabox-deactivated20131031]

My absolute favourite cat ever. This is a manul, or pallas cat. Found in the Afghan mountains, they’re one of the oldest pure-blood cousins of our own goggies.

they look like fat balls of rage

[adreamofmirrors]

Just gonna leave this here

[chainmailsoup]

SOMEONE HELP I’VE FALLEN AND I CAN’T GET UP

[chmobian]

brushie brushie

[arefinedrascal-deactivated20140]

BRUSHIE BRUSHIE BRUSHIE

[butterflyinthewell]

omg….

[awwww-cute]

My dog is teaching my new kitten how to weekend… (Source: http://ift.tt/2FyUzlH)

[aspergersissues]

Great points

[defectivegembrain]

disabled people’s voices should always be prioritised over those of abled people in conversations about accessibility

[myautisticpov]

Autism Social Skills That Would Actually Be Fucking Helpful... #1

Kay, this is a thing I’ve mentioned off-hand a couple of times and realise that I have cottoned onto it where other autistic people might not have.

You know when you get super enthusiastic about your SpIns?

If you do it with a person who you otherwise wouldn’t be talking to by NT standards - like, you don’t know them that well or whatever - it will often be taken as flirting.

It doesn’t make sense to an NT brain for a someone to be really enthusiastic about a topic to start with - so this can happen even with people you’re close to if they don’t know about your SpIns - but when it’s someone you wouldn’t otherwise be enthusiastic with by NT rules, the problem is exacerbated.

So, you just think you’re having a pleasant and energetic discussion about your favourite thing.

The other person is probably like “why the fuck would anyone be this enthusiastic about a thing, unless they are being enthusiastic about talking to me specifically?”

And that, fellow autistics, is how you get into a situation where you have a bunch of people asking you out while you’re wondering what the hell you did to encourage this.

(Side note: this is meant as an explanation, not a suggestion to stop acting like this. Obviously, if you’re bad at rejecting people, you can end up in some sticky situations through this set-up, but I would actually suggest getting better at rejecting people, not changing how you talk about SpIns. And on the flip side, if you’ve been trying to flirt with an NT for ages, and they are just not picking up the signals, you can try talking to them about things in the same way you would talk about SpIns. Showing interest: hacked!)

[defectivegembrain]

TODAY ON NTS ARE SO WEIRD

[thisisntmyrealhair-deactivated2]

Also the mood for 2018: I don’t care if your abled fave plays a disabled character and does such a good job. Fuck them. They’re shitty assholes that take jobs away from disabled actors and they kill the dreams of disabled kids and adults that want to become actors. How do you think it feels to google a show thinking that you’re getting representation for once and realize that the actor in it is just pretending to be disabled for a paycheck? Fuck that noise. I don’t care how nice and gracious they are, they’re ableist pieces of shit. 

[autisticadvocacy]

It seems like every time an autistic advocate pops their head above the parapet and objects to some maltreatment of autistics, especial...

“If even one of us is subject to [being treated as subhuman], we are all at risk. And we know it. Even if we don’t think about it consciously, deep down we know it.”

[autismproblems]

autism problem #1148

Constantly worrying that you’re being infantilized.

[myautisticpov]

I’ve been thinking a lot about this infamous “Siri” book, lately, and while some people are absolutely horrified by the author’s attitude about her son, there’s something deeper a…

I’m putting a link to this blog post here because I’ve seen some autistic blogs uncritically talk about theory of mind as if it’s fact, instead of highly dubious.

Every time someone responds to “is this an autism thing?” with “well, it sounds like a theory of mind issue”, I phase through the ground, straight into hell… /s

[geeksquadgangbang-deactivated20]

Vic Berger is a national treasure

[going-to-hell-to-fuck-satan]

[raserus]

cronch

[404-alarnia-was-not-found]

[left-reminders]

[flyingpurplepizzaeater]

do you ever low key all the time only want to talk to people who would still think you were human if you stopped talking and never talk to anyone else again because like fuck constantly auditioning for the part of “actual human”

[hoshiko2000]

One of the really, really frustrating things about being autistic is that you feel like you spend your life trying to reach some sort of unattainable middle-ground:

- We’re criticised for not making enough conversation, but when we do actually really get in to a conversation we are told we’re ‘too intense’.

- We’re often trained to maintain unbroken eye-contact during conversations, yet in reality too much eye-contact is called ‘staring’ and makes people very, very uncomfortable. 

- We’re encouraged to ‘express’ ourselves more, yet our actual, genuine emotional reactions are usually deemed ‘innapropiate’ or ‘unnescessary’. 

- We’re told to be friendly and confident when approaching new people, but are then warned that we ‘come off too strong’.

- We are told to try and make interesting conversation, but are also taught that speaking about our interests will only ever annoy other people. 

- We’re asked to explain our difficulties and anxieties, only to be told that these explanations ‘make no sense’ or that our worries are unrealistic and invalid. 

- We’re expected to force ourselves in to social situations that feel overwhelming and draining yet still somehow remain friendly, good-tempered and pleasantly sociable. 

- We are encouraged to develop good self-esteem, while at the exact same time being taught that everything about us is wrong.

I don’t hate having autism - I’ve never hated having autism. But I do hate living with the never-ending pressure to attain this mythological ‘perfect’ level of social interaction that simply doesn’t exist in my case.  

[autismproblems]

autism problem #1118

trying to imitate another autistic person because you feel like a fake autistic 

[thenatsdorf]

It’s not easy making friends. (via miminaonao)