#it totally does

[tothebasementpeopletothebasement]

obsessed with phil being so confident in his aura and the capybara shirt that he feels his outfit matches dan’s energy

[slow-burn-sally]

If you have a child with medium or high support needs autism, and you deny the fact that you or the other parent could also possibly be on the spectrum without researching it thoroughly or going for an assessment yourselves, what you're actually doing is making sure your child feels isolated and alone with their disorder, while you get to dodge all the stigma they experience, and get to distance yourself from your child as their beleaguered, exhausted, self-sacrificing, sympathetic, neurotypical caregiver.

I told a coworker I had autism earlier this year and she said "Oh, my son has that. He touches walls to calm down." And she said it with this slight veneer of mockery in her voice as if she couldn't understand why her adult son would do such a kooky thing. Maybe it was a habit she'd developed to get out in front of other people making fun of him by gently doing it herself? Then, not thirty seconds later, she casually mentions that she has trouble recognizing faces. She has ADHD and was open about that with me, but ADHD is (somewhat) less stigmatized, and the well known symptoms involve being chatty, hyperactive, risk taking, spending too much money and being forgetful. Autism by comparison makes most people very uncomfortable every time you bring it up and involves issues with personal hygiene, extreme social problems, often violent or loud or messy meltdowns, trouble making direct eye contact and a whole host of misunderstandings (like that we can't feel empathy or don't lie) etc. etc.

Not saying ADHD doesn't carry its own stigma, but the difference is pretty obvious if you have both and experience telling people about one or the other (like I do and have done).

Two of my Facebook friends swear up and down that their child's autism is the "environmental kind" that "came out of nowhere", yet both are heavily into D&D, cosplay, science fiction/fantasy and come off as blunt and socially awkward. I think a lot of autism parents who swear up and down that autism is caused by vaccines or gluten or other shitty theories, just want to make it clear that though their child has this awful thing (being sardonic here) they have been thrown clear of also possibly having it.

Autism is something like 85% heritable (I postulate that it's likely 100% heritable because stigma means statistics will be heavily skewed) and co-occurs with ADHD at a similar level (if you discover the autism first). If you have an autistic child and claim that there's no way you could also be on the spectrum just because you like a wide variety of foods or have lots of friends or because you don't act exactly like your high support needs kid, you're being both willfully ignorant and ableist, where you could be standing in solidarity with your kid. I have 500 friends, dated polyamorously for 15 years, was a massage therapist for a decade and adore touch. I love sushi and vegetables and spicy food, and am autistic as fuck. Just my opinion.

[nondescriptrock]

Is this allowed? Maybe, but either way, prebby angel boy

[autistic-puffin]

three takeaways from today's episode:

din! ugnaughts! amazing!!

din...battle droids....oh my god

LIZZO AND JACK BLACK?????? LIZZO AND JACK BLACK!!!!!

[therealjanejackson]

I dunno who needs to hear this but the golden guards mask is supposed to look like a bell

[shredsandpatches]

amusing lines from podcasts

On Patrick Stewart’s age makeup in “The Inner Light” failing to predict that he would basically not age at all for years and years: “They had no idea they were working on an immortal Time Lord who is rejuvenated by universal acclaim! And weed!”

[lame-troll-squad]

Hmm it doesn't make amicus feel even a little good to show off that he has a high blood bf?

its just ₳ h₳ir tie, nothing else, im not in ₳nyones quads, get your he₳d outt₳ my ₳ss ₳lre₳dy

[pineapplemasq]

oh

So does that mean Jack is still in a coma? And maybe Chase is ‘playing’?