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[ellabrine1]

absolutely beautiful piece adiosterror! The colors chosen contrast beautifully and you captured the stylistic medium really well! you should feel really proud of this one, I think!

Oh shit, surprise ult dirk art!!

I'm absolutely in love with the artstyle of @/workdailylog (too scared to ping lol) and it really inspired me to experiment with more simplistic artwork instead of stressing about shading and lineart and whatever,, this is the result!!! I'm so so happy with it, especially the hands hehe

[ellabrine1]

First reblog ever! lol although I was diagnosed at a young age with autism (on an academic level we never went to a doctor but someone came to the school or something. I dunno it was like third grade, I'm in college now dog I don't remember.

this feeling still applies for people who were diagnosed but told it 'wasn't that bad' or that they ' could still be normal', 'just try harder to fit in' or that it isn't to be used as 'an excuse'. I was diagnosed at a young age but told my entire life and encouraged to repeat back to my relatives that it did not define me and was not an excuse for shortcomings.

and even after trying to reteach myself that it's okay to be affected by my disability, that it is okay that I cannot do all the things other people my age can do, or as effectively. but I till feel like a failure. I still feel like I will never be good enough, socially, academically, occupationally. and every time I try to bring up these fears I am met with the same results 'you used to say it's not an excuse so why are you using it as one now?' a disability is not an excuse. please do not instill this harmful rhetoric onto your children. YES it is not an excuse to treat others harmfully, but it is completely an excuse for not being able to do things because your disability affects those things.

sorry about the ramble, I am aware this is not quite in typical tumblr formatting but, I just wanted to contribute to this because there is so much harm done by both of these things.

Not telling your kid they have a learning disability, chronic illness, mental illness etc. so they can “feel normal” actually does the opposite. They will not feel normal if they do not have the context to understand that their normal will be different from that of their peers.