#i am not intellectually disabled

[s1yeye]

people seem forget nonverbal semiverbal speech unreliable speech loss all can be caused by things not autism outside of autism. kuru i me is not nonverbal semiverbal self, but body have somewhat frequent speech loss, and many alters (like self) speak weird funny or not speak at all. is mostly part of us our schizophrenia and brain damage and ID. we autism autistic too, but autism tend cause more words speak hyperverbal lot lot lots words spill out ramble off, rather than hard to speak hard make sentence hard words or no at all.

this post, want say hello and i see you to others with schizospec or brain damage or ID who not speak or struggle speak some way because of it. you welcome here, is your community too. ^_^

[sonicattos]

get standed on stupid !!!!!

[lesbian-honey-lemon]

Here is my problem with posts like these- the concept is sound. Autistic people *can* have all of these traits pictured. Autistic people can make eye contact, not be good at science, and understand emotions.

But all of these posts come off with the undertone that NOT having these pictured traits is the default, the standard, that autistics who don’t have these traits are talked about too much and that NOT having these traits is just stereotypical and bad. Those sentiments have been repeated far too often in the community for me to fully trust people who make posts like this one shown above. How can I know that they don’t REALLY mean to leave autistics who don’t have these traits, these “cute, good, more socially acceptable traits”, out of the conversation. How can I know they don’t think autistics who don’t fit this cutesy list are bad and stereotypical and should just shut up already so the cutesy autistics can look better to neurotypicals. Because it really does come off this way.

I didn’t read fiction at all until I was nine (I was forced to start reading it then) and didn’t enjoy it until I was twelve. I still only enjoy the few fandoms I know well and it is very hard to get into anything I’m not familiar with. My lifelong special interest is geology and has been since I was five. I have always been good at science, and although I have a vivid imagination and love art, I hate English class and can only make art for Big Hero 6 and the SCP Foundation because I know those fandoms well. I don’t make eye contact, and I have low empathy and struggle to read and understand the emotions of people I don’t know well. I have noise sensitivity so bad that I have almost given myself tinnitus playing music to cope. I couldn’t do dishes until I got myself rubber gloves, I can’t eat many “quick foods” such as instant and microwaveable foods because of texture issues.

I don’t fit most of those cutesy traits on the list. But, I barely ever see any positivity for MY traits, because the community sees me as the default, thinks I’m talked about enough and visible enough. There’s this undertone in all of these posts that us non-socially acceptable autistics are visible enough and we should just let high masking high empathy LSNs have the spotlight. And that would be fine if they didn’t also make the community completely inhospitable to us by shitting on people with low empathy, misusing the term nonverbal (which ABSOLUTELY pisses off actually nonverbal people and you’d know that if you actually listened to them), and refusing to talk about anyone who isn’t a cutesy high empathy high masking LSN. Apparently everyone else is accepted enough. Apparently people are aware of me already. If so, then where did my diagnosis run off to, huh?

[oldtvandcomics]

Happy Queer Media Monday!

Today: Dread Nation series by Justina Ireland

(The two books that contain the actual Dread Nation story photographed from my Kindle)

Dread Nation is an alternate history horror series set in a world where the American Civil War has been cut short by a zombie apocalypse. Some decades later, children of color are being sent to special schools where they get some training, mostly bad than good, then sent out to the fields to fight the zombies. Two of these girls are Jane McKeene and her school rival, Katherine Deveraux. When they get unexpectedly transported to a segregated town on the Western frontier, they have only each other left to rely on.

The strength of these books is that the only fantastic element in them are the zombies. The racist atrocities committed by various white characters, as well as the system at large, can all be recognized as things that actually happened to Black people in the history of the US. 

Both main characters are disabled. Jane suffers a serious wound while fighting zombies in the second book, and Katherine has severe anxiety. They are also both queer, Jane is bisexual and Katherine is ace.

The Dread Nation book series consists out of three books: Books one and two (Dread Nation and Deathless Divide) are the actual story, while the third, Three for the Road, contains three short stories set in that world.

Queer Media Monday is an action I started to talk about some important and/or interesting parts of our queer heritage, that people, especially young people who are only just beginning to discover the wealth of stories out there, should be aware of. Please feel free to join in on the fun and make your own posts about things you personally find important!

[brittlebutch]

idk if i can fully articulate this but i find it like, Interesting how often people seem to flinch away from the notion of a character having a genuine difficulty in academic settings that is caused by Intellect — how often people will seemingly try to get around the idea by writing something that amounts to, like “No this character is Smart, they just struggle with XYZ and if they were Accommodated for that, then they wouldn’t struggle in school” but it’s like,, why do they Have to be ‘smart’ though?

[kayzero]

By the way! I'm curious abt your thoughts on how ztd handled junepei. How would've you done it differently?

Sorry if im being annoying/overwhelming :( I just wanna hear your opinion Dyfdy

there’s a post about the Junpei body parts puzzle and how it was symbolic and cool and how it would have been psychologically devastating for Akane if it were an actual planned Thing instead of just Mira fucking around, which basically encapsulates all of my ztdpei feelings.

ZTD Junpei is not significantly different from 999 Junpei, even though the narrative tells the audience that he really really should be. He spent a year chasing after Akane, he found himself staring at the cesspit of crime, and he’s still sillygoofy, if not a bit dumber than he was in 999.

He’s snarkier and cattier but not actually angry or bitter or frustrated toward Akane—he doesn’t even question things most of the time. He finds himself in another death game and he falls into line. There’s no cynicism, no quiet moments of reflection to showcase inner turmoil and grief, no real edge. They just dressed him in black and painted a scowl over his dopey lovestruck smile.

What would I have done differently? You’ve already seen some of it. He’s philosophically combative, if not argumentative, he’s asking questions and refusing to do anything blind, he tries his best to get a word in during decision-making. He’s still Junpei, so he shouldn’t be a Red Hood vigilante edgelord shooting every problem in the skull, but he has seen the darker parts of humanity, and if there are no other options…

Basically, I wanted a bit more VLR Tenmyouji and a bit less 999 Jumpy, so I did that, and you’ve seen most of what he has to offer in ZWG.

In the last two fragments that have yet to be revealed, he plays more of a supporting role in one, where I can showcase how his character has evolved but not overly diverged from his portrayal in 999.

And then the other one is his Character Fragment.

[sneefsnorf]

people on here love neurodivergent ppl until they get confused on what's satire or not. or just like. need a joke explaining to them. then theyre stupid idiot babies that are ruining the funny shit. and its such fuckass nonsense

[eleemosynecdoche]

Anyways, my opinions on politics are probably kinda baffling to most people even in highly politicized spaces, in part because I draw a line between "understandable" and "morally justified" which most people, I think, would treat as somewhat contiguous instead; and also because I have a complicated ongoing argument over whether violence is always in and of itself bad, and at best regrettable, or if there should be an exception carved out for categories that apply to me but I vaguely wish didn't, and only those categories.

[dlnqnt]

baby this is the worst example of career inspiration i have ever read

[danielnelsen]

thanks for adding that information to the post about down syndrome. it was correct, informative and well written

not sure how well written it was because i just typed it up quickly, but i’m glad you appreciate it. the way people talk about intellectual disability and conditions associated with it are so behind so much of the advocacy and acceptance on this site and it really frustrates me.

the idea that people with down syndrome can live independently and make choices for themselves because ‘most of them have a “normal intelligence”’ is fucked up. people don’t have to fit your (general) definition of ‘normal’ to deserve respect and dignity and to be able to make important choices about their own lives. disabled people don’t have to meet a certain threshold of ‘normality’ to be treated as people.

what gets me is that…..intellectual disability is COMMON. it’s 2-3% of people (compare to autism, which everyone talks about ‘becoming more common’; it’s about 1%). but people get caught up in the outdated idea of ‘mental age’ and just can’t picture an adult going about their life and doing everything that anyone else would do while also having ID.

and of course some can’t do all that and those people shouldn’t be dismissed, but the picture we have of ID (and down syndrome, in this specific case) should be a full picture. you don’t have to be einstein to own a house or drink alcohol or have sex or get a degree or raise a child or look after your own money.

i know i’m being really repetitive but it’s just. ughhh. why do people need to imagine that a video about people with down syndrome having autonomy and making adult choices is about how actually they’re not disabled after all! as if a person’s general cognitive abilities dictate how much respect they deserve.

and, in case i’m giving the wrong impression here, the most profoundly intellectually disabled person who needs 24/7 care for the most ‘basic’ of needs deserves just as much respect and autonomy. they deserve as much control over their lives as is physically possible. no ‘but what about…’ they’re people. they’re real human people and, as adults, are just as entitled to be adults as anyone.

you should NEVER assume someone can’t do something because of a diagnosis.

[sunkern-plus]

tfw middle support autistic who isn’t allowed to have their own opinions, dress the way they want, have the hairstyle they want, watch the media they want, or do anything an adult can do without people freaking out because i *checks notes* have the critical thinking, cognitive skills, and emotional maturity of an elementary schooler at best supposedly

[anewbrainjughead]

i will say that the way poor things handles disability and disfigurement left a bad taste in my mouth

[saintbleeding]

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[chaotic-queer-disaster]

this year at my new school i do not want to pretend to be allistic partly because it sucks and partly because i want an IEP with accommodations & shit so it will probably be noticeable on some level. but i also do not want people (like. nosy students. not teachers, they'd know i think) to know i am autistic specifically so i am debating being vague with "neurodevelopmentally disabled" or smth but also i dont know if thats bad or not

[engagemythrusters]

yknow. I'm gonna say it.

What is so wrong about Wrecker potentially not being smart? What is so wrong about someone being "dumb?" Every single goddamn post I have seen about this just... looks down on people who aren't conventionally smart. Like. What in fucks name is that about?

I'm not saying turn him into a goddamn baby like some people do. But I'm saying it's just fucking fine if he's ""dumb."" He doesn't have to be intelligent.

Also. Some of these posts just come across really fucking ableist btw. It's not a bad thing to have an intellectual disability... why are you all acting like it's such a crime if he did have one? Christ almighty you all are just as bad as people who fucking baby him. You don't fucking HAVE to put down intellecutal disabilities just because you don't like one idea.