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Trick or treat reblog game give prev:

treat! favourite horror movie

treat! a tiny pumpkin

treat! favourite candy

trick? a mysterious orb

trick! jumpscare

treat! ghost plushie

trick! pocket sand

treat? vanila extract cake

trick! prev is now bald

trick! get perceived prev

Voting ended onOct 21, 2024

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I think we should have a feature that if you pick the same username as someone you can be assigned as like a clone or an evil twin

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holding a witcher and a secunit up next to each other 'look creatures that were made to keep people safe but are treated horribly by those same people'

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Autism and helping people who are upset/mid-meltdown

Wish

There’s a lot of things that I wish the people around me had known. Things that parents, and teachers aren’t taught. Some things, I wish everybody knew, just in case. If I meet a stranger on the street, while I’m mid-meltdown, there are some things that would be useful.

Touch

The thing about consent is, most people only think about it in the context of sex. And, when they’re met with someone who’s crying, they want to help. And any idea about consent goes out the window. They aren’t trying to take advantage of someone, they just want to help. And touching someone’s arm, or giving them a hug, is soothing. Right? Physical touch is always comforting. The thing is, it’s not.

When I’m crying, I’m mid-meltdown, and my brain’s shut down. I’m not really in a place where I can talk, this can be true for a number of autistic individuals even if they’re usually quite verbose. So I can’t tell you, at least not verbally, to stop touching me. I have no way of using words to communicate the fact that, your hand on my arm is painful and stressing me out. Yes, I do mean painful, it hurts. And it is making the situation worse. It is much harder for me to calm down, while you are actively hurting me.

So, please, don’t touch strangers. Good intentions does not translate to consent, you need to ask.

Questions

Often, when confronted with someone who’s very upset, most people’s first instinct is to ask questions. “Are you okay? How can I help? What’s wrong?”, in their concern and eagerness to help, most people ask way too many questions. If I’m upset my brain is already kind of overloaded, and it’s common for an autistic individual to need more time to process questions (or language in general).

Problems with auditory processing are fairly common with autistic individuals. So, imagine this, you’re upset and now someone has decided this is the best time to quiz you on types of birds. But, they don’t give you any time to answer any of your questions, instead they just keep asking new ones. Irritating, isn’t it? Now add on to that, an inability to talk. It’s not that just that they aren’t giving you any time to reply, even if they did you can’t answer. And in this scenario, there’s a chance you don’t know anything about birds.

Sometimes, an autistic individual doesn’t really know why they’re upset. Or if they do, they might need a while to figure out how to explain it.

When you’re trying to help someone who’s upset (I personally think this should really be standard practice and not just when the situation involves autism), focus on asking one question at a time. It is vital, that you wait. Give them time to understand what you’ve said, and then more time to figure out what they want to say, and then more time still to actually reply. Patience.

I also want you to keep in mind, that sometimes the very best thing you can do for someone, is leave them alone.

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I'd be interested to hear if anyone has similar thoughts, or if something else along these lines springs to mind.

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has anyone thought about what ART is doing with the money it seems to have? Assuming that ART isnt just a huge fan of tax fraud and /or embezzlement what does it do with its private funds?

ALSO Theories on where it gets the money?

An easy answer might just be hacking people ot doesn't like and stealing their money. But what if it's got an obscure side job

What if we find out its got royalities from a book it wrote? What if like Iris said they loved idk dinosaurs or something and ART made toys/books/tv shows for her and then just ended up also monotising it

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They expected Batman to interogate Danny. They're surprised when he doesn't, it seems put of character but here's the thing. Constantine is being *polite*. Whatever Danny is, it has John scared.

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I love how murderbot is always saying its risk asdesment module is unreliable. When it's like probably basing everything off statistics. That thing isnt broken it just knows murderbot is compentent. But murderbot doesnt know that, and its got too much anxiety to believe everything will be fine

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angsty fic idea (that might already exist) : what if its not that simple to use the med system to repair murderbot when its damaged what if all the mechanical parts are properitary, meaning you need the company box to do repairs (or more au style less scifi, you have to order the parts from them. stretch it further with the slightly funny idea of needing a specific charging cable to recharge)