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Was scrolling through Pinterest when I found this from the WEBTOON artists of Return of the Mount Hua sect ❤️‍🔥

(It’s pretty old I think, but still true)

I mean- just look at him 😭😭

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happy birthday sasuk!! happy birthday to you, who shines the brightest

pls click for better qual. idk what's wrong with tumblr for me.

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Hugs

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Happy birthday! Dongryong-ie

Bonus:

Ps: not sure if I should get him a ‘happy birthday’ card or a ‘get well soon’ one 😔

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chin up, baek cheon sahyung. one is blessed when they are loved

chapter 278, i said previously somewhere else that chung myung is a rubber-necking auntie but i take it back; the entirety of the mount hua sect are all rubber-necks.

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Let’s Talk About Situational Mutism

The Autistic Teacher

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Autistic People Deserve to be Believed When…

Neurodivergent Lou

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Ways Autistic Attempts at Connection are Misunderstood

Neurodivergent Lou

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today's bug thing is this ladybug fruit salad!

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who keeps breaking into my freezer and replacing the trays full of little water with ice cubes

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Why the “why” is Important…

The Autistic Teacher

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Understanding Sensory Sensitivity

The Autistic Teacher

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One thing I've noticed over the past few years is that we seem to have turned away from describing things as our "struggles" and started describing things as our "dislikes".

More often than not I seem to hear "I don't like this". And I just feel like that sends the wrong message to people about what autism really is.

"I don't like eye contact" vs "I struggle to maintain eye contact".

"I don't like small talk" vs "I struggle to engage in small talk".

"I don't like being around people" vs "I find it overwhelming to be around people".

"I understood the joke, I just didn't like it" vs "I didn't understand the joke and had to ask what it meant".

But autism isn't a set of likes and dislikes. You're not diagnosed with autism based on what you like and what you don't like.

Many of us would actually like to be able to do the things we struggle with. But we can't or we need support to do them.

It's fine if you both don't like and struggle with. But I don't think we should be reducing symptoms and traits down to just "I don't like this". It feels like it takes away our genuine experiences with our struggles.

Lots of people don't like things, yet are fully capable of doing them anyways. One may not like walking up and down stairs, yet one may be fully capable of doing so. That doesn't mean one actually struggles with walking up and down stairs.

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My Sensory Contradictions as an Autistic Person

Neurodivergent Lou