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[crossstitchbossbitch-blog]

Just playing with my nice marker pens. I will do this sort of thing over the course of a wfh day.

[splendapine]

What dont you like about CC? whether it be glaring flaws or nitpicks, im interested

that’s a toughy! i feel like sometimes they take the apathetic ‘haha our channel is dying, we broke n need money’ shtick too far? like it’s funny and hashtag relatable but sometimes i feel they don’t know when to cut the bit? after a while it becomes very monotonous, and it’s no longer funny its just, depressing? sometimes the personas James and Aleks play can also get very borderline offensive when they talk about fans, i get that its a bit, but its a fine line. i think that's where people get this idea that they're actually asshole from too, cause on their individual streams you can see they’re both absolute sweethearts.

if I wanna nitpick, sometimes i feel like the videos they upload are a bit lackluster, they’re falling into a very tight mold, like you can tell when a video was uploaded cause they needed their daily content vs when they put their time and effort into something they're passionate about, but i can’t really fault that, i respect that they’re able to upload for us daily, we can’t get top tier content all the time. but i feel like its been a while since we’ve had a break of the mold, something that’s entirely different like Account of Aleks and their more cinematic stuff. I hope they have some new things in the works! and i’m excited to see what they do for Halloween this year.

[translatingableism]

Not a translation but I'm trying to figure out if there's a difference between aspergers and autism or if aspergers is part of it or what? I was diagnosed with autism and was always told it was a light autism and I'm confused now.

Aspergers is no longer in the DSM as a diagnosis, although it is still being diagnosed in other countries under a different diagnostic criteria. Some have been diagnosed with aspergers before the change, but once imformed that doesn’t mean they can’t change the way they look at it.

Keep in mind that aspergers literally is autism but with a different name. But the two names are treated differently.

Personally, I dislike the term “aspergers” for multiple reasons.

The term is very much connected to the idea of functioning labels. It’s also treated as a better diagnosis than straight up autism while still being denied resources.

I remember reading that, statistically, young white boys middle class and up are more likely to be diagnosed with aspergers than poc and feminine people.

And there are even cases in which parents would pay for an aspergers diagnosis because to them aspergers is less shameful than the diagnosis Autism. But don’t take my word on this, I don’t have sources and am too tired to look.

Many autistics within the community try to use aspergers to diconnect themselves from more stigmatized and dehumanized autistics but only manage to throw us under the bus. It’s often based on internalized ableism. They will say things like “I have aspergers, it’s like autism except less /that/.”

The diagnosis originates from WW2. During that time autistics were being mass murdered. But a guy named Dr. Aspergers (I can’t remember his first name) saved thousands of Autistics by pretty much saying “Hey look, these autistics are useful and can contribute to our cause. Let’s diagnose them with aspergers and not kill them!”

I used “saved” but keep in mind this guy was still an asshole.

The documents were lost but bits and pieces were found and the diagnosis of aspergers stuck.

I believe this is talked about in the book neurotribe? I think that’s what it’s called? I got the information from The Autistic Brain and I am sure you can find out more by googling aspergers origin.

In summery to what I have written so far, Aspergers was originally based off of functioning labels.

For context; functioning labels like high functioming, mild, low functioning, severe, etc should be avoided when talking about autism.

The labels are used to devide us and don’t say anything about the traits we have and the struggles and abilities each individual autistic has.

Autism is a spectrum which is more like a color wheel we each exist on multiple planes of and which is always fluctuating than it is a linear line between very autistic to almost allistic.

All functioning labels suceed in doing is decide how we shall be silences and mistreated.

Those percieved high functioning are denied accomodations and recources and are told they are not autistic enough to speak about autism.

Those labeled low functioning are dehumanized and forced through abusive therapies while being told they are too autistic to speack about autism.

Some of you may argue that aspergers and Autism disorder had/have two seperate criteria.

Actually, it only has two mild differences and one is based on ableism and the second makes no sence as a seperator.

One “difference” is IQ. So they say those with Aspergers have higher than average IQ but those with Autism Disorder have average or lower. But IQ is an ableist and classist measurment of intelligence that does not put into account different ways of thinking and communicating.

The second “difference” is that aspergers didn’t have delayed speech. Meaning they started talking at the average age or sooner. Putting aside how very few count that when diagnosing (It’s often ignored), why delayed speech?

Why, out of all the different autistic traits was delayed speech or nonverbal tendencies singled out?The only reason I could think of was that people connect innability to verbally communicate to low IQ.

I have heard some say that aspergers is more based on the socializing aspect of autism, but I am pretty sure all autistics have the social aspect in some way as it is a big factor in the criteria. I believe there is a seperate diagnosis from autism that is only the social and communicative part of it, but I could be wrong.

So, with this all in mind, some would still say “Okay but couldn’t we just reclaim aspergers?”

I would say yes if all Autistic’s reclaimed it and not just those who are percieved and stuck with the label “high functioning”. I would say yes but then why would you prefer aspergers over autism?

Maybe that’s a thought to dwell on.

Because, most of the time it’s because they have disconnected themselves from many within the autism community. Disconnected themselves from non verbal autistics, autistics denied rights to self advocacy, autistics that society treats as less human.

And I have read too many “I have aspergers. Like autism, but not like /them/” in bios and on other sites too often.

Although, I do believe it’s okay to say you have aspergers for safety reasons. For some, saying they are autistic (even though aspergers is autism) could be dangerous.

It sucks that we have to choose between being treated as less than and younger than we are or being denied needs.

~admincam

[translatingableism]

When my parents bought my brother a car, one of the main conditions was that it was also mine and he had to drive me anywhere I needed to go (I can’t drive due to my disability and my parents can only do so much around their work hours; my brother doesn’t work or study). Today I had to go to uni earlier than usual and asked him to drive me, because it was rush hour on the train and my anxiety kicks pretty bad in that crowd. I first told him about it on Friday, and he said he wasn’t sure he could because he was working on some plans himself (I should mention my parents were away last week). When I asked yesterday, he said he couldn’t, so I decided to somehow reschedule because I didn’t feel like I could deal with rush hour on the train. I was very angry, though, because these “plans” were going to the gym with friends at 11 and I’d asked for a 20-30 minute ride at 8:30, so when my parents came back this morning I told them, because this isn’t the first time he pulls this sort of crap. He got all pissed and denying that I’d told him anything and the following mess resulted into me having an anxiety attack. While I was trying to calm down in the bathroom I could hear perfectly how he said I’m always making this shit up to give him trouble and get away with the shit “I” pull. My mom told him that I can’t fake the reaction I had and ordered him to drive me to uni (an hour late, when I couldn’t do the stuff I needed to do and had to go to class). As soon as my parents left for work I told him I wasn’t getting into the car with him (because when he’s angry he doesn’t pay attention to driving PLUS spends the whole time insulting me) and stormed off for the 15 minute walk to the closest train station, through an unpaved road because we live in the middle of nowhere. My brother, scared that my parents will take his car away, came after me (on the car), and that’s how I spent ten of the fifteen minutes of the walk with him driving next to me telling me to just get in the fucking car. He didn’t leave untilmwe reached the more populated area next to the station. Oh, and the icing on the cake? He had to go to a place next to my uni anyway today to pick something up.

Could you please translate this fucking mess and maybe give me some advice? Because right now I’m legit in a bathroom coming down from ANOTHER panic attack over it.

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Oh wow this is a mess.

To translate the ableism part of it: "I don't care if you get anxiety attacks and panick attacks. I do not want to help you even though helping you would not cause me any trouble.

I don't really have much advise. Your parents seem to be on your side here but I don't know if they could do anything either. You seem to have an asshole brother in general.

~admincam

[crashorpie]

honestly I hate the phrase "ace discourse" and unless I know someone relatively well I get suspicious when they ask for ppl to tag it… like. I have no way of knowing if they mean "drama as a whole is upsetting to me, and there's a lot of drama surrounding this particular issue" or "I'm asexual/aromantic and it bothers me to see posts insinuating that I'm homophobic because of that, even if the person who put those posts on my dash is reblogging a version where acephobic/arophobic sentiments are shut down" or "lol fuck ace and aro ppl for wanting a community, don't they know they aren't Really marginalized in any way"

[croquines]

also im powering through it because this girl reminds me of myself a LOT and it pretty much proves in my mind that ive always had adhd because ive heard from a lot of people that autism and adhd are alike in a lot of ways? and its just like. i know it never really showed in my academics but you have to keep in mind that i had really weird circumstances like i went to a really easy public school and also was “gifted” and had a lot of differently-styled classes where the focus wasnt on homework or tests but on in-class activities and hands-on learning. if my mom just thought about the way i ACTED she would realize how fucking awkward and hyper and clearly adhd i was?? idfk im still always so sensitive about this because no one will give me a straight answer and even if they say “this test didnt show that you have prominent adhd” i look at all the experiences of people with adhd and i relate to them so much like so fucking much and daMN im so twitchy and scattered and if there are mistakes in this post i cant check it right now

[crashorpie]

honestly I'd say the game itself goes out of its way to discourage perception of Asriel as being naïve? the most striking example I can think of is Sans' 0 EXP speech. "that doesn't mean you're completely innocent or naive… you refused to hurt anyone. even when you ran away, you did it with a smile." and it's no accident that this is immediately after we read that Asriel "smiled and walked away" after not fighting back despite having the power to do so. we're supposed to fill in the blanks, I think. Asriel made a willful choice to spare those humans, and that shouldn't be cheapened by describing it as the result of childish innocence.

[goingtrickster]

hey i just decided to start reading jjba manga,is there any part that you recommend to start reading or i should read it in chrono order?

!! oh boy youre in for a wild ride anon

tbh? i havent read the first 3 parts in the manga (i’m terrible i know but i’m reading them now actually) cause i was a sav and just watched the anime for those parts (mostly because early araki’s art style is, something else,)then when i caught up to the anime i just started reading the manga because the art got a lot better also i just wanted to know what was going on!part 5 (vento aureo) and 6 (stone ocean) are definitely my favourite parts of the manga

if anything, although you can read the parts as stand alones, if you want the full effect of the series i do strongly recommend you start from the beginning! also you have to give it a little time, its difficult to get straight into but oh boy next minute you’re hooked and crying over big bara nerds