eager and unashamed

wyn | 28 | he/they | UK autistic

[butch-bara]

[sapphicway]

[bebsi-cola]

i'll be honest. If you can't deal with someone wording things badly then you aren't going to be an ally to autistic people or indeed anyone with a developmental disability, intellectual disability, or disability that impacts language.

also you are never going to be safe for people for whom english is their second language. if someone clarifies their meaning and apologises and you can't accept that over the original wording then don't bother pretending to be autism friendly.

and like part of my autism is that i become convinced that the way i interpret words is the way that they're meant. my autism is disabling to my communication abilities. i have poor emotional regulation, i jump to conclusions. a lot of my reactions are informed by prior negative experiences. i can and probably have been overly defensive in the past.

and i've been misinterpreted so much and had my words picked over and mocked for saying the wrong things and mocked for being unable to say anything at all and it always feels devastating. it's ironic that the same disability that has me treated poorly would have me react poorly to a similar situation, but that's just how it is.

so i'm not saying you can perfectly manage all your reactions just by trying hard enough. especially considering how much disability affects these things. but i do think if you are completely unwilling to give autistic and other DD/ID people leeway for how they word things or understand that they have a disability that impacts their communication and give us grace then you aren't a disability advocate.

[dykeselfcest]

the way dredge was such a personally tailored perfect gaming experience for me that i put obsessive effort into my first-ever completion of an in-game encyclopedia, finished the game, and basically didn't play another video game for 16 months

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[bitchautism]

the online identity and gimmick-ifying of autism is so odd. I'm diagnosed with autism and yet I barely identify with any stuff I see about it anymore. It feels like autism is being rebranded as the Silly Guy Disorder that gives you smart and beautiful hyperspecific interests. it's not that I mind silly jokes or being lighthearted about being autistic- but when the entire social movement is based around marketing us this way, I just can't help but feel isolated from it. it feels like I'm not the right kind of autistic. I'm not marketable and digestible to common audiences, and therefore I am discarded by the movement in the name of progress and acceptance. it feels foul.

[rhaenyraitargaryen]

EMMA D'ARCY

photographed by Pip for Flaunt Magazine | The Beautiful Game Issue (June 4, 2026)

[periodinteriors]

Robert Blemell Schnebbelie (1790-1849), Interior of Drury Lane Theatre, 18 November 1817, ink and watercolor.

[quantumshade]

everyone be quiet. marsha with her snoopy.

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

every shitpost has at least 85% chance to have been a plot of an episode of the hit television show the x files (1993 - 2002)

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 2 days 17 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 2 days 17 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 2 days 17 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[tygerbug]

This is the money Marge. Reblog for good fortune

[maudit]

[profeminist]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

Gifset source

[missbliss12]

Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.

[vampiricvenus]

We're in the fascist tradwife, stay-at-home girlfriend, revoked abortion access apocalypse, and people who otherwise are sensible still refuse to admit that most likely means an exacerbated violent hatred for women who just point blank will not voluntarily partner up with a man.

[vampiricvenus]

"I'm quickly realizing that society sees women partnering up with whatever man wants them as their social duty, and they'll be met with violence of one degree or another if they refuse."

"This in no way will affect the lesbian population, let alone violently. They're actually exempt from this pressure. Somehow."

[chateauofmymind]

have you ever suddenly + involuntarily lost consciousness

yes (fainted)

yes (head trauma)

yes (substance-induced)

yes (lack of oxygen)

yes (blood loss)

yes (multiple)

no

Remaining time: 1 day 3 hours

[ladycrimsonandblack]

i'm wondering just how much of azune's breakdown was genuine and how much of it was engineered to evoke sympathy from murray and occtis.

oh, i do think that his emotions were genuine. he is scared. he doesn't like lying so much. he doesn't know what will happen to him in that meeting. but i find the timing of it so suspect. azune compartmentalizes. he avoids. he buries his emotions so that he can function as efficiently as possible. he saw the sister he thought forever gone dying on the floor in front of him and rallied enough to usher everyone around only minutes later. he broke down about thjazi's death only after everyone was safe, and he was alone with hal. azune does not break down in the middle of a job.

unless it's useful.

we know he likes to lie with half-truths. telling einfasen that thjazi made him fight or that he saw that one arcane marshal taking money. he says the technical truth in a way that makes it, for all practical purposes, a lie.

and all of those lies are for the cause. to save the city. to continue the rebellion. to make the sundered houses fight each other. and all of those causes are in jeopardy because he doesn't have a witness for what the tachonis did.

except occtis, who is conveniently there, and demodus, who is under murray's protection.

and it works! occtis is, i think, too pragmatic to risk himself just for azune, but murray isn't! murray has pragmatism, yes, but she also has so much care for the people around her, and so much guilt about azune specifically, and she knows that azune's right. someone needs to talk.

and so azune has a breakdown at a very convenient time and ensures demodus will be there to cast the tachonis in the worst possible light.

azune's cause endures.

[nat1quoteunquote]