#red april

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Sam Gilliam - Red April

1970

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You Know What’s Wonderful?

My autistic ass sucks at making my message completely understood most of the time, specially when I’m giving my opinion on something or talking about feelings, execpt when I’m teaching something that I know A LOT about: standing in front of a classroom, ministring a subject that I know everything about; then I’m the best on being understood. I’m a teacher (English) and almost all of my pupils tell me that, didactic wise, I’m the best teacher they’ve ever had. When I’m presenting seminars on History, Geography, Philosofy and/or Sociology I give a literal class, my teachers often say I’m the only student who’s able to actually teach the class something while doing so, so don’t come at me and say that I’m never going to succeed in life (read that as “be a good actress) because I’m autistic because sweetie, eveyone was born to shine bright in something and autistic =/= literally the worst public speaker ever!

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Bullying

Today, for the first time in many, many years, I was mocked for being autistic. I was going to the toilet during luch, and a girl said something out loud as as was passing and I covered my ears and ALL of the girls around me started covering their ears and laughing and one of them even said “have you seen that girl covering her ears? Looks like a retarded!” Happy autistic accptnce month!

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Get To Know Me And My Autism

Name: Paulina;

Age: 18;

Nacionality: Brazilian;

Height: 175cm (5’9’’);

Sex: Female;

Gender: Agender (she/her - they/them);

Sexuality: Asexual Panromantic;

Favourite Movies: Titanic and The Greatest Showman;

Favourite Shows: Cable Girls, La Casa de Papel and ASOUE;

Favourite Plays: Wicked and Rent;

Favourite Colours: Tumblr Blue, Sapphire Red, Emerald Green and Mustard Yellow;

Favourite Country: Norway;

Languages That I Speak: Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, French and Norwegian;

Languages That I Intend On Learning: Latin, German, Finnish, Russian, Esperanto, Guarani, Japanese and Dutch;

Special Interests: Politics (mainly leftist politics and veganism), Dramatic Arts (mainly musicals and circuses), Disney, the Titanic , Harry Potter and the 1920’s;

Self Taught Abilities (Savantism): Reading, Writing, Singing, Acting, Drawing, Paiting and all of the languages that I speak except English (that I learned in school);

Special Abilities: I can teach myself literally anything;

Learning Disablities: Dyscalculia;

Favourite Books: Wicked, Les Mis, The Little Prince and the Harry Potter series;

Favourite Song: Defying Gravity, from Wicked;

Profession: Private English Teacher;

Common Autistic Traits: Stiming, No eye contact, Antisociality, Don’t like being touched, Am sensible to noises, lights and smells, etc;

Uncommon Autistic Traits: Savatism, Raptor Hands and Tiny feet;

Neurodiversity: Aspergers Syndrome.

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“I won't ask you to tell me who has spoken ill of me, but I would like to know who has spoken favorably.”

Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo

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“I believe in hell, Señor Prosecutor. I live there. Hell is not being able to die.”

Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo