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If a person goes to the gym a lot we assume they are in shape, if they go to school a lot, we assume they are smart, but if they go to therapy a lot, we assume they are crazy.

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Broxbourne Woods, Hertfordshire, England, UK

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I wanna hear from my autistics who’re told they mumble a lot when in your head you talk clear and loud, and then have to shout to make yourself understood, only to be told to stop snapping and being angry. Love y’all.

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The moral of Rudolph the red-nosed raindeer Is even if you’re a little bit different , you’ll never fit in and people will bully you unless you serve them a purpose. Happy holidays!

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petition to rename the usa ‘south canada’

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Gonna say this again because I keep seeing this kinda stuff and it still needs to be adressed more:

Any fictional character that an autistic person connects with/says is autistic is autistic. They don’t have to prove it, the character doesn’t have to have what you consider to be autistic traits for them to be autistic.

As an allistic person you think everyone is allistic until proven otherwise but allistic has never and will never truly be normal or default. Assuming that Everyone (fictional or not) is allistic by default is the same as assuming that everyone is straight or cis at default. It’s not realistic and it’s very annoying.

And btw if you’re allistic you likely only recognize a very small list of autistic traits. There are as many ways to be autistic as there are autistic people in this world. So if an autistic person says a character is autistic they know far more than you about autism and about that characters autistic traits. .

So, before you say dumb shit like “I don’t see it” or send rude anons to autistic headcanon blogs, keep that in mind.

(Allistics reblog this challenge)

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Devizes Castle, Devizes, Wiltshire, England

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Art details moodboard pt.1

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Someone: I have a cousin that’s autistic, what could you possibly know about autism that I don’t?

Me, an autistic:

Image description: a gif of Peridot from Steven Universe, angrily yelling “Apparently more than you, you clod!”.

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Dear neurotypical people and allistic people…

Autistic people get crap for not asking for help “sooner” when we’re found floundering around in frantic, frustrated confusion. 

The irony is when we do break down and ask for help or clarification, we get told “you should know that already”, or that “it’s silly that you don’t understand something so simple” or, my personal non-favorite “I already explained that to you!”

Or we see you roll your eyes, hear you sigh, hear your voice get that annoyed condescending tone and have to listen to you talk to us like we’re the most unintelligent things to grace your presence.

Can you stop doing that shit to us?

Some examples of questions I might ask someone may be:

“When you say smaller, do you mean shorter or narrower or literally smaller in scale with the same proportions?” “Do you want the shade of purple lighter and closer to pink or darker and closer to blue?” “If you say a lot of that, do you want 20 copies or a higher number of copies?”

Luckily I’m mostly around people who know I think in specifics and will be specific for me, but during my teens I had the opposite. It messed me up for asking for help as an adult.

Many autistic people are terrified to ask for help when we really need it because it’s a huge hunk of emotional labor and oftentimes the payoff doesn’t get us the answers we need to do something we’re expected to do.

Just answer the questions we ask even if it’s the 902834092834th time we asked about it. I know it’s annoying, but we want to do our best and how can anybody do their best if the help they seek makes them feel bad about themselves or question their intelligence?

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Cimetière de Montmartre. Photo by Amber Maitrejean

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“Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, 2018. Ensemble by Thierry Mugler, Fall 1984 collection. Photo credit: Artsy

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Sweetheart Abbey, founded by Lady Devorgilla in 1273, New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Books, books and more books…the tribulations of trying to concentrate when you are surrounded by beautiful bookshelves…

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