#apsie

[trying-to-change-the-world]

So you're telling me... austic actors are talented enough to play not autistic side characters... but aren't talented enough to play the lead role of a character with austism???

[on-top-of-the-universee]

Full offence, but fuck autism speaks, right?

[xoaspiewriterxo]

Instead of  forcing everyone who’s  “different”  to  adapt why not  make  society  more  diverse and  make  allowances

[aspieprincess]

i don’t tell people in my day to day life about my autism because i’m scared they’d treat me different if they knew. because that’s just how society and the mainstream media has conditioned people with little to no actual experience if autism - that we need special treatment because we are autistic. but they forget that we are more than just our autism.

autism may be the seed from which our personalities sprout - we wouldn’t be who we are without it. but we are also more than our seeds; we are stems and leaves and petals, and some of us are blue while others are yellow or pink. we are all beautiful and unique, even if our seeds are not the same as people without autism’s are.

and in the end we need the same things to survive as they do. we need love and care and sometimes just a little bit more water than the average flower. but by insisting on treating us differently than they would treat each other, they end up smothering us until we no longer have beautiful petals for them to admire as they do their own. they will only have pity left to give as they keep burying us deeper in their misunderstood attempts at making us beautiful yet again.

i don’t tell people about my autism because i don’t need their pity or their misguided help. i do however want to be loved and understood for who i am, without having to fear the destruction that help born out of ignorance can cause.

all i want is to be appreciated for who i am, even if i am not like everyone else.

[go3dprinting]

A rant.

Tired when people ask if I have any goals in life. I have none. Have no plans on every having any. I am living from day to day and that is it. I screw up anything I do if it is long term. Why do you think I have 114,000 in student debt? Future for me will not be planed. It only a minute by minute type of thing for me.

[spongebob-autisticquestions]

To other autistic people, how long ago did you first find out you were autistic?

[autism-asks]

Kinda important: Is it offensive/ableist to say I have aspergers or call myself an "aspie" instead of saying autism? The reason I'm asking is because I'm writing my tumblr bio and I'd like to mention it somewhere, but I don't want to use the term autism because I have some very ableist friends that could find my tumblr and give me trouble for it. I'm planning on cutting ties with them in a few months, but for the time being I was wondering if it would be offensive to say that instead of autism.

This is a matter that is under a lot of debate. There are people who would say that it is ableist to refer to yourself as an aspie while there are others who would disagree. 

Personally, I think it’s best to avoid the use of Asperger’s and aspie when possible as these terms are often used in lieu of functioning labels as a way to separate autistic people into categories that ignore the needs of some while dismissing the abilities of others. For more on my thoughts on the matter, check out this post. 

However, if it is for your safety that you wish to use aspie, I, personally, don’t have a problem with that as your safety is more important than community politics. I would just advise that you are careful not to use the label as a way of separating yourself from those autistic people. 

-Sabrina

[spongebob-autisticquestions]

To other autistic people, do you ever find yourself less likely to experience a meltdown, shutdown or sensory overload as long as there is one other person you trust with you?