[theangelblood]

Some things about me:

I'm Jay (they/them)

24

Autistic

Nonbinary

I speak Polish and English and really want to learn Norwegian, Italian and Scottish Gaelic

My favourite tv shows:

Supernatural

The Boys

The X Files

Dark Angel

Bones

Lucifer

Dexter

The Mentalist

Criminal Minds

House M.D

My hobbies:

Guitar & ukulele

Houseplants, cacti, succulents, bonsai

Collecting rocks & beach glass

Stickers

Pottery

Drawing

Tattoos

Snakes and lizards

Inline skating

Photography

DMs always open

[beardedmrbean]

[venerable-thief]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[quinnception]

[elbiotipo]

"the US will run Venezuela directly until there's a 'transition'"

there we go.

[elbiotipo]

in the words and candence of Trump:

"WE are going to run the country. (untilthereisasafeandjudicioustransition) ... We are going to run it basically. And as you know the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust for years now... the best oil companies in the United States will invest on its infrastructure."

Just if there is any ambiguity. The oil part was immediately afterwards by the way. I'm almost transcribing it live, you will find the transcript soon. Say what you want about Trump but he is completely transparent.

[elbiotipo]

"we built the Venezuelan oil industry with American money and talent and the socialist regime ROBBED it from us, it was the largest theft of American property in history"

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDD

[elbiotipo]

IT'S LITERALLY LIKE IF US CAPITALISM AND IMPERIALISM MATERIALIZED INTO A PERSON. IT'S LIKE HISTORY IS SPITTING ON MY FACE. I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING INSANE.

[casthegrumpy]

my day was so bad it felt like it was executively produced and directed by bob singer

[killrockstar]

should men be allowed to post online i think they shouldn't

[loveridden1999]

i may have my father's worst traits but i am more ethical & virtuous with them than him

[chocolatecakecas]

im just saying i think one gay kiss would have been lot cheaper than that party city wig

[claybefree]

[freakoutgirl]

misogyny is never an inherent part of any culture actuallyyyyy

[sainamoonshine]

POV: mister Devon Price, PhD, telling me that I am right about everything

Source: Unmasking Autism, discovering the new faces of neurodiversity

[indecisiveavocado]

I am feeling seen, thank you devon

[mycroftrh]

I think a lot of autistic taking-things-literally goes under the radar because what the diagnostic tests and shit ask about is not what that generally looks like in an adult and often not in kids either and much more importantly it’s not what generally actually causes problems in real life instead of being irritating for caretakers or funny to bullies or easy to diagnose

I have absolutely no issues understanding metaphors or idioms. When someone says their heart is on their sleeve they mean they’re emotionally expressive and openly display their feelings, not that they have a chunk of cardiac tissue on their shirt. I very rarely have issues with sarcasm. I sometimes have issues telling when someone who’s said something mean is about to say “just kidding”, but tbh I think that’s more on them than me.

BUT

My grandmother asked me “Do you know when the trash was taken out last?” and I said “I think Eliot took it out yesterday” and a few hours later she yelled at me for “not taking out the trash when I asked you to” and I was like???? You didn’t ask me????

I dread filling out forms and am crap at filling out diagnostic tests or personality quizzes because there are always questions I don’t know the exact answers to (how am I supposed to know what day I got dental surgery seven years ago?) or don’t understand exactly what they’re asking or the wording’s unclear and they could mean this or the wording says this but I’m pretty sure what they actually meant was this and should I answer what they said or what they meant, and how does everyone else just whip through the form when surely they can’t know all the answers either? Does everyone else remember the day they got dental surgery seven years ago?

I get tangled up by bureaucracy because the rules on the website say that for this you need that and for that you need the other and for the other you need something else for which you need the first thing, and I go in circles for hours or days or weeks or months or years because their stated rules say there is no way to get what I need, and when I talk to somebody else they’re like “just call them?” and I’m like “how could that help? the rules say that what I’m trying to do is impossible”

And all of that? That’s how “taking things literally” ACTUALLY affects your life as an adult. It’s not “haha you think ‘getting under your skin’ means parasites”. It’s “you have real difficulty functioning in the world because everyone else is conveying things through implication and assuming that you know that rules are flexible and questions are approximate and you’re supposed to lie on job applications, and you don’t”.

[navigatorsghost]

ALL THIS and also, the fact that the "solution" is often presented as "just call them!", as OP says, really isn't that much help if you know damn well that you're prone to being accidentally Weird in real-time conversations, and therefore are not likely to be presenting as your best self when calling a stranger to ask for help.

Because then on the phone you will be both Weird and Anxious and quite possibly wrangling auditory processing issues too if you happen to have gotten that flavour in your personal autism sundae, and none of those things tend to help with solving whatever the original problem was.

[theangelblood]

Is it insensitive to find a sliver of beauty in the aftermath or the result of a horrible and traumatic event that hasn't directly impacted you?

[blanketforcas]

alright let's GO

[rythyme]

i was seeing all these little blue flowers everywhere and kept thinking "dang what are these bitches, i can't remember..." well guess what. they were fuckin forget-me-nots. can't believe i failed step fucking 1, the hot girls on iNaturalist are going to laugh at me and i'm gonna flunk out of hobby botany school.

[rythyme]

!!! Learn From My Humiliation!!! THESE ARE THE BITCHES!!!! DO NOT FORGET THEM !!!!

[deramin2]

[miscellaneous-reblog-blog]

ID: same image with the text "I forgor." End ID

[fred-the-dinosaur]

[theangelblood]

Why the fuck are google apps icons so disgusting!? I hate how the look. I also hate google and that it owns android. I can't afford to buy ad free version of the apps I need but my phone only has google versions

I fucking hate it here h

[auti-starshine]

Yall RFK jr is trying to convince people that tylenol taken during pregnancy causes autism 😭 This is somehow even more bizarre than the vaccines cause autism claim??