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"Cringe culture is dead" people when someone actually does things they consider cringe without parading that Yes They Know It's Cringe

Do Not blackout this post, I said what I fucking said, this is not just about the part prior to 'without'

Yea Sure U Can be Cringe but only if you paste a little (or preferably very very big) "cringe culture is dead" / "I am cringe but I am free" / etc on it

That is its function

#leviathan.txt #leviathan argues #swearing cw #repetition cw #anti cringe culture #cringe culture #anti normativity #umbrella tag: norm

You don’t want to ever want to be normal in terms of behavior towards minorities or those with stigmatized identities.

#crook talks #anti normativity

30 Days of Autism Acceptance 2019: Day 3

April 3: Talk about what autism acceptance means to you.

So part of it is, given the particular context - the ‘autism awareness’ thing has autism as like, a kind of boogyman/evil curse thing (in several ways) or something. So, well - that being not the case and not how things work.

And autistic people being autistic people, and not allistic people under like, a curse sort of thing. And autism is - a way people are and not a curse-thing on actually-allistic people, and autistic people are people and not a curse-thing (including the kind actually teaches you life lessons or whatever) on other people.

Then there’s the anti-normativity part - there are people whose brains are set up/work in these ways, and that’s just equally valid with other ways brains work and other ways people are. There’s not some kind of moral value or obligation on what-society-considers-normal - that’s just another way people can be, and it’s not better than other ways. And people shouldn’t be forced or coerced or pressured to be that way or act that way or conform to it when it’s not how they are and not right for them.

And then there’s like - on a personal level, you work the way you work. And like, some of the ways you work might not be things you like or want, but that’s a call you get to make for yourself and not some universal list. And those things still exist, and knowing they exist and working with that goes better in a lot of ways than trying to act like they don’t because you get the message that they shouldn’t, or hating yourself for them existing. [Note: to be clear having internalized stuff like that isn’t the fault of the person who has them.]

And ways you work can be awesome and great, even if you’ve gotten messages otherwise, and it’s good to have a world, or pieces of the world at least if the world is still not available, where they can be lived and celebrated. (And ways you work can be neutral and they’re just as valid as other ways people can be.)

And on a social level, society should be set up with that understanding that people are different but equally valid in it, and can need different things, and to meet the needs and facilitate good lives for that variety of people.

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#30daysofautismacceptance #actuallyautistic #2019 #normativity #anti normativity #acceptance #well I wasn't sure if I could get anything written/was like argh writing but apparently yes things!

If you’re choosing between two options and one feels “too cringe”, choose that one.

#leviathan.txt #anti normativity #anti cringe culture #umbrella tag: norm

Stop trying to reclaim the culture of abuse.

Harming people is not “cringe”, it’s bad because it’s fucking harming people.

Beings participating in online harassment are not “pathetic and shameful”, they’re fucking harming people and that is all you need to talk about it being bad.

“Cringe”, “dumb”, “pathetic”, “shameful”, etc, are all intended to be about assigning negative value to traits and behaviors that are not harmful to anyone, and harm the beings that have those traits (and that assignment is already harmful).

Even when you’re applying that to actually harmful beliefs and behaviors, you’re still taking the focus away from the harm being done and to some abstract cringiness/etc.

As well as in general perpetuating language and patterns of abuse. I promise you, people who have been abused by those see you. Idgaf if you’re also one of us, you’re certainly fucking hurting the rest of us.

(This post was originally made with no paragraph breaks, decided to add them just between each sentence before posting, the last sentence in the paragraph above was added after that)