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Collie / Matt * he / it mainly, or you can just use my name! Disability blog, multiply disordered * medium support needs autism * check intro post for more details! not active very often, so I most likely wont respond to messages / @s

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Intro ! Been putting off for long time lol

⭐️ names : Collie [main] . Matt

⭐️ trans masculine genderflux xenogender hoarder . Taken 🫶 ace flux bisexual

⭐️ he / it / name [use name in place of prns]

⭐️ nonhuman transspecies otherkin . Age , pet regression . Kandi kid . Digital and traditional artist - aspiring fursuit maker

⭐️ medium support needs autism with continued regression of skill . unreliably speaking with verbal shutdowns . Part time high and low tech AAC user, mostly low tech . Combined sensory avoidant and seeking

⭐️Moderate innattentive type ADHD . Severe depression and anxiety . Schizospec . OCD . Tourette’s . Learning disability . Personality disorders from trauma . Combined type ARFID . Traumagenic osdd 1B System

⭐️ CFS/ME . EDS . Chronic pain

⭐️no DNI but will block freely . Do not involve me in system, radqueer, shipping , kink discourse I don’t really gaf about what people do . I do not understand a lot of politics

⭐️Special interests : MLP, dogs, psychology / disability, furry community, kink culture (I do not post about it) . Mostly all interests branch off special interest

⭐️open to moots and asks! May take a while to respond, apologies

⭐️use simple language! best way to get me to understand. Please use tonetags and patience when chatting

[inchwormcircus]

Honestly im so fascinated by how plurality works theres such a wide spectrum of experiences and I think narrowing it down to "well if your life doesnt SUCK and you dont HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOURSELF you arent plural" isn't helpful at all

plurality is our partner showing us hyena videos because Purple likes hyenas, plurality is all those little conversations you have in the bathroom when nobody is around, plurality is pacing around the kitchen because you can't decide what to eat and keep forgetting what you were doing. Plurality is finding notes and doodles you completely forgot you wrote. Plurality is finding little notes of someone else's style in your art. Plurality is giving yourself a headache because you went down a rabbit hole of trying to learn about yourselves.

The DSM is not the word of the gods, it was written by people, and cannot possibly cover every extent of human experience.

[sillysymbol]

an experience

[sillysymbol]

this comic was about my experience as an autistic person trying to do tasks that would usually be second nature for an allistic person but I'm glad people are relating and resonating with it :}

[fuzzytalescomics]

Ocd 🤝 psychosis struggles

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[asexual-amanita]

As a recovering addict, I’d like to remind you all that addiction has no moral hierarchy. Being addicted to gambling isn’t superior to being addicted to fentanyl, and having a non-substance based addiction doesn’t make you better than those who do struggle with substance use.

[asexual-amanita]

Justice sensitivity is not an autistic trait. Autism has no morality, and to say so is neurosupremacy. What you may be thinking of is a specific presentation of cognitive rigidity that some autistics have.

One way I’ve seen this in the community is black and white thinking leading to nuance lacking rhetorics such as “the puzzle piece is a hate symbol.” Or “Autism Speaks has never done anything good.”

And while I won’t deny that neutral or even positive things can come from this way of thinking, the cognitive rigidity itself is not morally aligned.

[wheelie-sick]

this is an unpopular take but actually yeah sometimes having low empathy does hurt people. it just doesn't mean that we're irredeemable monsters who need to be sterilized for the good of society.

sometimes low empathy makes people say unintentionally cold, mean, or downright cruel things

sometimes low empathy leads to a lack of care for others causing people to behave in hurtful ways intentionally

sometimes low empathy means that someone lacks understanding of why something is hurtful leading them to double down when confronted about it

sometimes low empathy makes attempts at offering sympathy clumsy and upsetting

sometimes low empathy can lead to attitudes about bullying such as "well I'm just telling [what I think is] the truth" without recognizing that certain comments can be hurtful even if you believe them to be true

while these actions are not acceptable or productive the big thing about them is that they can be learned from. not everyone can learn empathy- that's okay. everyone can learn to be a kinder, more considerate person.

denying that low empathy can lead to harmful behaviors does us no good. it erases many of us in favor of appearing respectable to the people who do not respect us.

yeah, I have low empathy. yeah, I have hurt people because of it- sometimes on purpose. I have learned from it. stop trying to make me the "wrong type of low empathy" or deny that the things I did were directly linked to my low empathy just because you think it makes you look bad. cool, you're perfect and your low empathy has never hurt someone but that's not true of many of us and you don't just get to throw us in the garbage can because we're inconvenient for your "low empathy hurts no one" narrative.

[grub-muncher]

A service dog may perform a variety of tasks and fall into multiple categories, these dogs would be called multi-purpose service dogs. This is not an extensive list of tasks and only mention a few ways service dogs can aid their handlers.

[cielinginspace]

BELT strap AAC idea!!! Instead of shoulder strap AAC, its belt strap AAC on your waist to prevent shoulder fatigue from carrying around your shoulder!!

I'm a genius guys..

[asexual-amanita]

Cognitively disabled people deserve gender access to affirming care.

Psychiatrically disabled people deserve access to gender affirming care.

Physically disabled people deserve access to gender affirming care.

Being disabled doesn't erase the possibility of being trans, having dysphoria and/or wanting to pursue a medical transition.

[briarpatch-kids]

So do intellectually disabled people! I know multiple transgender people who are also intellectually disabled and they have a very difficult time accessing social and medical transition unless there are supportive caregivers!

[pixierainbows]

This , so much this . Pixie got very lucky , both with understanding and supportive doctor and with very helpful and good and supportive guardians .

Not many cognitive disability intellectual disability developmental disability trans people are also so lucky .

Transitioning as disabled person should never ever be based on luck . But it really really is and that be so not fair .

[kaputtsolvi]

What I feel people frequently forget about autistic special interests is that they aren't always information based. They may simply be visual or mental

Someone may have a special interest in a show, but instead of that meaning that they will talk about that show often, it may mean they watch that show extremely frequently.

Special interests are ways of regulating, not simply encyclopedias we have in our heads. Sometimes it's watching something frequently. Maybe only listening to one genre of music, maybe it's a collection, maybe it's an action. I'm tired of it only being seen as autistic people's personal encyclopedias

[asexual-amanita]

“Presuming competence” in the context of autism doesn’t mean assuming they have no cognitive deficits, or that they will 100% understand everything their allistic peers would. It means you should go into an interaction with an autistic person without assumptions about what they can and cannot understand. It means to treat them with respect, and act like they can hear and understand you, and to explain gracefully when they don’t.

[nommingwaffles]

Drawing autism traits I don't see represented much!! part 1!

Something I don't see talked a lot about online is how some autistic people (INCLUDING ADULTS!) only speak through phrases or through things pertaining to their special interest(s) or SpIn(s).

This can make communication much harder for those who have this trait, meaning it'll be harder for them to secure a job, communicate issues effectively (without someone willing to learn the individuals speech patterns), or do basic small talk. Someone speaking in this way does not mean they lack comprehension of language either.

This drawing here is based off someone I've met IRL at disability workplace training, he would only speak in sentences that were part of his SpIn which was Disney movies.

The Māori flag in the back is intentional! I tried my best to draw this bun with Māori traits but felt like it wasn't going to be clear enough so I included the flag in the back. Anybun can be autistic, including those who are Māori

If you have something you'd like to see talked about online more please tell me and I will draw it

[pixierainbows]

Pixies First book with adult aac users !

And !

First time ever see any kind of media with 2 aac users actually talking to each other using their AAC devices !!!

[grub-muncher]

This comic only mentions different hallucinations based on sensory modality (which sense it impacts) but there are other ways to categorise hallucinations such as the theme of the hallucination or the severity of the hallucination

Hallucinations don’t only affect schizospec people and can happen to people without a psychotic disorder or any mental illness/condition

[aleswell]

hurting other people is not internalised ableism. being mean or ashamed about people with more severe forms of the same disability as you is not internalised ableism

internalised ableism is only aimed at yourself. as soon as you start with negative feelings or making fun of other people you are just ableist

people could say im embarrassing the ‘autism community’ for being level 3 and then will be like oh im just internalised ableist. does that make sense to you? it doesnt to me