Season 3 is for the overthinkers. The ones who always had the crush but were never the crushes. The ones who only see flaws when they look in the mirror. The ones who throw themselves into books because those worlds treat them better than life ever has. The ones who are just so goddamn tired.
I don't mean to be rude, I'm just autistic. It's right there in my bio. I get cadence and tone wrong sometimes, I misunderstand social cues, I laugh inappropriately, I can be painfully direct, and I’m embarrassingly earnest sometimes, but I genuinely don't ever want or mean to upset anyone, or make folks feel uncomfortable.
Do tell me if I've upset you, and I promise I'll do my best to improve and not make the same mistake again. If you think I'm being rude, I can guarantee that's not my intention, and I would truly appreciate correction from you because I honest to goodness have no idea that what I've said or done could be construed that way.
Anyway, I just wanted to float that out into the void.
Shout-out to the autistics who crave hugs. Shout-out to the autistics whose love language is touch.
And shout-out to the autistics who were denied a timely diagnosis because a misinformed professional thought you were "too affectionate" to be autistic.
You aren't any less autistic because of how you show affection. And you aren't nearly as rare as pop culture and outdated research would imply.
rereading my own writing is just a constant fluctuation between “damn, girl, you wrote this? (affectionate)” and “damn, girl, you wrote this? (derogatory)”
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
West Virginian here! Way back in high school, our (nationally ranked) speech and debate team would have lessons specifically to learn to talk without their WV accent because judges would deduct more points if they had an accent than if they didn't. :)
I learned how to speak with no accent in important/professional situations. Even now, my accent comes out mostly when I'm tired or around someone else who has one. I love my accent. I know how to distinguish what part/county of WV someone is from by their accent. I grew up submerged in voices, in twangy stresses and silent t's and more conjunctions in a single word than churches in Georgia.
The dismissal of WV and Appalachia as a whole is a difficult barrier to overcome. We have been told our voices don't matter because we are a bunch of illiterate, inbred hicks who aren't knowledgeable enough to make informed decisions (politically, personally, etc.)
How can one argue against that when their very voice is a point to be made against them?
if you give “stupid” characters rural/southern accents i don’t like you and if you give “smart” characters rural/southern accents but it’s a punchline i don’t like you even more
Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.