dear Lew, do sensory issues ever get in your way of living the maximum amount of life you can fit in one life? sending a splash of sea breeze your way, Kat
thank you so much for this question and i will be very honest here so indulge me for a moment. you see, I am autistic. and I have the good autism. I can remember things very easily. working hard comes easy to me. I excel in most academic and professional environments. I love public speaking, negotiations, high pressure social environments. I learn everything fast. languages, rules, instruments, disciplines.
but i am also twenty seven and my mother has to buy my clothes for me still because I don't know how to do it. I have just moved countries for the fourth time for a prestigious job and she needs to send me my shirts in the mail because I don't know how! I just can't figure it out. i also cannot touch porous materials like unglazed clay or unburnished metal. i find it so deeply disgusting it makes me sick to my stomach just picturing it. two months ago I cried for an hour because the hotpot place me and my friends went to didn't have a instructions on cooking length and the lack of structure freaked me out so hard I nearly threw up.
the best way i can explain it is: everything others find hard I find easy. everything other find easy i find hard. and it's such a fascinating way to go through life like everything is upside down for me. and i am not complaining! this is the easiest form of being autistic by far, and it has given me massive privileges and acces to a life most people never get. but i really struggled with it as a child because no one seemed to understand that i needed accommodations even though I was a child prodigy. that I wasn't being difficult despite being smart and knowing better but because of it.
I guess there is not a big moral to this story but maybe the answer to your question is this: it has stopped me in many exiting and convoluted ways and there is many basic things that i can't do. but i love the cards that i have been dealt and I would not change them out for any money in the world. I'd just like it if people would believe me when i told them that I am not better at playing the game. I am just drawing from a different deck.
Sherlock Holmes is such a fascinating hyperfixation to have because he’s literally everywhere. Every time I get invested in a new media I start a little mental “Time until Sherlock Holmes referenced” counter and it very rarely gets very far at all. Goes for real life too. He’s so ubiquitous, and so well loved, that he’s entirely inescapable, and I love that fact almost as much as I love him.
The thing about Sherlock Holmes is that practically every adaptation you can think of has been done in some form. Every scenario, format, medium, it’s all there. He has at least three sisters, in varying levels of evilness. He’s been young, he’s been old, he’s been gay, straight, and aro/ace. He’s been Victorian, he’s been modern, he’s been a doctor, an asshole, a woman, a gnome. He’s been frozen in ice a la Steve Rogers and reanimated in the 21st century. He’s fallen off cliffs and in love. He’s thwarted every criminal known to man. He’s done quite literally everything there is to be done and yet there’s always, always more to write.
Hats off to you, Doyle, my admiration is yours, may you loath your own creation with all the vehemence with which we love him.
(yarn info, pattern thoughts, and extra pics under the cut)
I had so much fun knitting this little guy! I didn't go into it with the intention of making a patchwork elephant but I'm really pleased with the results!
The pattern was very interesting to follow, it was generally intelligible but just not how modern knitting patterns are written. My first attempt at the body piece had to be unraveled because I missed a row and his butt got mixed up with his back leg. Otherwise, not too hard, but if anyone has specific questions about how I interpreted the pattern feel free to ask!
(or any knitting questions really. playing knitting tech support is among my favorite activities)
I decided against making the saddle partially because I ran out of yarn and was dedicated to only using this set of yarn, and partially because I'm proud of my seams at the 4-way color changes and don't want to cover them up.
The yarn is a worsted mini set from my family's yarn dying business, Shelby Strings, in the colorway Geode Cache.
I like the patchwork effect so much that I'm working on writing out an adapted pattern to give out for free at yarn shows! A lot of people like our mini sets but don't know what to do with them, and I think this little guy is a perfect use.
I'm currently working on multiple pattern versions; one that's true to the original but written for a modern audience, and one with multiple colors (along with some tweaks for a nicer time sewing it up and a knit version of the tusks).
I'll be sure to post them here when I'm done, but I couldn't resist posting my perfect baby boy the moment I finished him :)
thanks for reading my ramblings, here's some more pics for the road:
here is my gay and friendly elephant pattern document! I've included a transcription of the original pattern, a translation of the pattern into modern knitting pattern verbiage, and notes on how I made my patchwork elephant because he's just so cute and I think everyone needs one.
if you find any problems with the pattern or have any questions, my ask box is open! and feel free to tag me in your elephantine creations! i want to see the world full of friendly gay elephants :)
"average character is a little bit autistic" factoid actualy just statistical error. average character is neurotypical. Sherlock Holmes, who has over 10,000 adaptations and is autistic in every one of them, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
People are always writing fanfiction about how it’s abusive for tom to hit jerry with the big mallet and jerey has mallet PTSD and gets a restraining order out on tom and starts going to a domestic violence survivors support group. stuff like this. Sometimes I like it but sometimes it irks me.
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