Anxious Wreck

@sweetbunnydreams

READ BEFORE INTERACTING! I’m Izzy. I'm 24 years old and my pronouns are she/her. I’m also autistic. I struggle with an anxiety disorder so plz be patient and understanding as I can get super awkward when talking to people. I’m not exactly active anymore… very rarely come here at all actually, so this account is pretty much dead lol. I pop in every once in a long while to check out new art and whatnot.

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dama624

fuck you

undergroundwubwubmaster

I need people to understand my old woman yuri vision.

mxmorbidmidnight

So much of what society treats as a joke is just mocking disability. Their idea of lazy is a disabled person trying to survive, whether that be living with their parents as an adult or using pre prepared food. Cringe culture is based entirely around mocking neurodivergent people and their interests. Symptoms and characteristics of disability such as urgency issues, drooling, tremors, tics, strabismus and speech impediments are used as cheap punchlines.

In children’s tv shows disabled characters such as those with speech impediments are treated as a joke, with symptoms of disability being portrayed as synonymous to stupid.

This idea is being taught from a young age in the media and it’s engrained into our language and culture. This goes beyond jokes, it contributes to the alienation of people with disabilities.

Once you start noticing these things you realise how constant and normalised it is.

Reducing an entire person to a punchline is wrong. Using a disability symptom as an insult is wrong. It’s disturbing how normalised it is to not treat people with basic decency and respect.

motleyfolk

“Cringe culture is dead” isn’t just about letting 15 year olds cosplay MHA (but is also an issue). It’s about letting 50 year olds dance at clubs even if they’re “bad at it”, it’s about letting 10 year old’s wear random bits of clothes to make an outfit that’s “weird”, it’s about letting adult men experiment with artsy makeup looks even when they’re “messy”, it’s about letting teens scream music even if they “sound bad”.

“Cringe culture is dead” means letting people learn new hobbies at any age, experiment with their identity at any time, expressing themselves in ways outside the norm just as much as it means let 20 year olds play roblox.

Cringe culture is just social norms being forced on people rebelling against societies value consensus, it’s keeping people in brackets that are easier to market to.

Let cringe culture be dead in every aspect of life outside online spaces.

lovely-cherubs

Cringe culture is literally just bullying, ableism, and pretty privilege all mixed together in one pot. The fact that neurodivergent/disabled people as well as those who aren't considered conventionally attractive to most of the public are frequently targeted says all we need to know.

Notice how it's perfectly fine for a neurotypical individual to express their interest in something and talk about it, but the moment a person with ADHD and/or Autsim does, it's considered "obsessive", "weird", and "cringe" even though they're literally doing the SAME THING. Yeah, it's not a coincidence.

Cringe culture has always aimed at putting down those who don't fit into society's standards. I said it once and I’ll say it again: CRINGE IS NOT REAL! And if you TRULY ARE embarrassed by somebody else’s actions, the PROPER term would be second-hand embarrassment, NOT cringe. Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

thememedaddy

Cringe culture is a form of bullying.

If you don’t like something you see, always kindly move on instead of calling the person awful names and giving them threats.

If you don’t like something, don’t drag that person into a hate post full of hateful words and name calling because you think it would be “funny”.

Making fun of people and calling them “weird” “freak” and “cringe” DOES NOT count as constructive criticism!!!!

Shaming them and making people feel awful is NOT voicing your opinions. It’s a cowardly act behind a screen because you decide to throw a temper tantrum over something you don’t like. Worst of all, you decide to go out of your way to hurt the person!

Cringe culture is bullying!

Coming from a girl who almost took her own life over this crap.