#actually austistic

[surrah698]

[fuckedupfemmebot]

Where are all the "slow" kids, the challenged kids, the burnouts from birth, the burden to have in class? Where are the autists who can't mask, who self harm, who are loud and can't stop stimming? The NDs with processing disorders, brain damage, brain fog? The ones with down syndrome, FAS, and other conditions that people treat like curses or defects. I hardly ever see them past 18 and I know they don't just dissolve once they become adults.

[sufferthesea]

oh yeah and after we saw fnaf 2 in theaters, I asked my brother if he liked it, and he just sighed and solemnly said, "I'm sorry. I just don't have the autism that makes five nights at freddy's my favorite video game."

[junabuggy]

Wtf happened to my tumblr HELLO. Why has everything changed im gonna bounce off my FUCKINGWALLS

[twilightofthesandwiches]

There’s just something about the fact that Zim reads as So Autistic. Like, both in the sense that it’s easy to map his experiences as an alien secretly living on earth to Autistic experiences:

A lack of understanding of social cues and conventions

The Anxieties of feeling like you have to fit in some arbitrary social standards or Something Bad will happen

Unusual sensory sensitivities

Pickiness about food

General alienation

Even the whole ‘fully grown alien disguised as a human child but he’s so immature he basically acts like a child’ shtick can really resonate with a sort of Growing Up Autistic Feeling of… being both far too mature and childish for your age at the same time.

And also in the sense that even in the context of comparing him to other Irkens...

He has problems with volume control

And possibly audio processing

And definitely with emotional regulation

And is extremely impulsive 

And uses very unusual wordings and turn-of-phrases 

And experiences sensory overloads.

And these aren't even Alien Things. That's just Zim being Zim. So he can be read as a metaphor for being Autistic and also as just having the Irken Equivalent of Autism

AND ALSO

His human arch-enemy Dib also has SO MUCH AUTISM VIBES

Like being single-mindedly obsessed with a special interest from a young age

(The part where his interests alienate him from his peers at school and he only finds companionship with an assortment of fellow weirdos of various ages he met online is something I find especially relatable for my own experiences)

Also having problems with reading social cues 

And a tendency to rant and info-dump

AND ALSO ALSO 

There’s also Gaz

Who is ALSO single-mindedly obsessed with a singular subject

And it’s something that always gives her something to do with her hands

And avoid eye-contact 

Which she generally prefers to avoid

And also seems to dislike any sort of physical touch

And either expresses her emotions in a way that is terribly understated or overstated

And it could also apply to their dad too, who’s been obsessed with science stuff from a young age

And also doesn’t seem to do so well with social interactions

Outside of just, like, me looking back at my Autistic-but-unaware-of-it middle-school ass imprinting on this show and being like “oh yeah, That Makes Sense” - it’s also kinda darkly hilarious how this show is basically about two autistic boys who just fucking hate each other to death (plus one of the boys' extremely autistic and extremely dysfunctional family). I mean, in the real world Autistic Solidarity is so incredibly important, obviously. But Invader Zim, a show that was everything to me as a lil autistic teenager is all about that sweet sweet Autistic Hostility.

[fuckyeahbrideofdeimos]

be honest with me. do you think i like bride of deimos. just a little. not a lot. a normal amount even. (the books above REBIRTH are dupes, an extra 2nd eng volume and 2 extra bonita og run collections). if only bride of deimos had figures, then i'd be displaying them lol. but for now we have baby miku, speedwagon, and halloween-chan. 2 pairs of LPS as well.

*not pictured are my tankobons and pocket editions because i need to fix their mildew before anything

[angelphilocalist]

“autism didn’t exist back then” “who do you think categorized all the bugs?” might i also add greco-roman columns, herbs, flowers, birds, clouds, stars, who do you think was digging up ruins in the first place

[nothing-if-not-unusual]

Shakespeare’s comedies end with marriage, I don’t want my comedy to end so I’ve decided not to get married