The most absurd shit anyone has ever said to me on Tumblr
Okay I never published this years ago because I know people would have read it like I was being bitter and petty in response to that, buuuuut I’m finally publishing (okay, quoting - I’ve left the original in my inbox all this time so I can have proof if someone ever asks for who it really was and while this person is awful singling their blog out is not productive) this absolute absurd fucking response I got from ThatAutismFeel like 6 years ago after a submission because I want to and I wonder if anyone else got awful takes like this. I guess uh, let me know in the comments or something! The blog was still pretty new at the time and I’d submitted a bit about not feeling like you have a special interest then realizing you’d just spent 7 hours on the same activity for the third day in a row.
TBH one piece of this is actually still really angering but most is just baffling. TW: Rape, though, for that bit.
This person is no longer listed as a mod for them, so that’s good, but honestly I questioned their entire judgement as a group after this because...well, you’ll see lol. Either way I immediately quit reblogging anything of theirs and told my friends ‘cause like...haha, wow. Bonus fun fact: this person posted on their blog about how they hoped all the people submitting to TAF die! While still an active mod!
hi! my name is mod m&m from thatautismfeel, you made a submission but you dont seem to identify as autistic. you are also far older than the majority demographic and appear to be predatory towards victims of rape (you enjoy oyasumi punpun the main character is a rapist and you want to counsel rape victims?) and you are studying psychology, an inherently violent topic. i wanted to tell you this personally and that your submit was rejected for these reasons. thank you!
Lemme just...break this down because this is just astonishing. Fucking remarkable.
you made a submission but you dont seem to identify as autistic.
Guess talking about it all the time doesn’t count if you don’t put it first thing in your header. Not in the middle like I did, FIRST AND FOREMOST. No words ONLY AUTISM.
you are also far older than the majority demographic
Damn, I never thought I’d be accused of being too old to be autistic by an autism blog. Autism Speaks, Autism Society, National Autistic Society, anything created by the federal government as soon as I turned 25, sure, but an autism blog?
Seriously though, this is the internet and a page talking about autism experiences with no indicators of any demographic besides “autistic.” There was never a “21 and under” in the abouts, people’s ages don’t pop up with their submissions. Absurd. But then it went from bad opinions to “Wow, you’re actually just a bad person aren’t you?”
appear to be predatory towards victims of rape (you enjoy oyasumi punpun the main character is a rapist and you want to counsel rape victims?)
You know what, this is actually just so fucking offensive as survivor of sexual violence that I don’t even want to make a joke about it, especially as I was already in advocacy work at the time. But “A character did something bad that was portrayed as bad, you like the thing the character is in, therefore you like the bad thing” is an extremely...what’s the word here? “Online” take?
you are studying psychology, an inherently violent topic
Back to the regular bad takes but also ironically ableist. Did they get their talking points from Tom Cruise? Are they still mad someone called them out on malingering? Do they think actually nobody needs therapy and it’s all a lie and suggesting any sort of treatment for a disorder is bad because this person is all about incredible amounts of ironic ableism?
i wanted to tell you this personally and that your submit was rejected for these reasons. thank you!
They also sent a second ask saying they would explain any of that, esp. the “inherent violence” of psychology which of course I never got a response to.
I thought about writing to TAF to be like “Hey, uh, you know this person is sending incredibly shitty responses right?” but then I figured it’s just gonna get intercepted by said mod or they were all good with this person’s awful takes, so pointless either way.
