#loud hands

[chronicallycouchbound]

May Your Hands Always Be Loud

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 5 years old— subsequently I was forced to take various high levels of stimulants, be in special ed classes, taught to have “quiet hands”, bullied for being weird, and over and over was still unable to keep up with neurotypical peers. It was suffocating.

I remember my senior year of high school, I was in alternative education. It was the one and only year I got honors, didn’t fail any classes, and it was the only year I got the accommodations I needed: being able to stim freely in class, listen to music whenever I needed to, arrive late/leave early, able to do homework in class, and whenever I struggled, my teachers checked on me.

Such simple accommodations changed my life. And it wasn’t until after 12 years of continuously failing classes, punished for being the way I am, years lost to being grounded for never being able to have good grades, so much more. I internalized that I was the problem. But I never was. It was the inaccessible world around me.

Let neurodivergent people, children especially, exist as they are. They are beautiful just as they are. May your hands always be loud.

[sicksadstar]

loud hands are happy hands

[clownrecess]

I want to talk about Pablo.

Pablo is a childrens show with autistic characters, and an autistic cast. I love Pablo, it's a really good show in my opinion, and I really relate to a few of the characters.

However, I do have a few issues with it. The main one being that Pablo is nonspeaking, but in his imagination, in his ideal world that he's made, he isn't. This really bothers me because it portrays being nonspeaking as being a less good scenario than being speaking, and it isn't. There is no better way to communicate, oral speech isnt superior.

The other is that llama (who is actually my favorite character) is fully nonspeaking besides echolalia, but her voice actor isn't. Llamas voice actor is fully speaking (the last time I checked anyway. Its sort of hard to find information.) and whilst I am super glad all the actors are autistic, I do wish they at least used a semispeaking or a nonspeaking echolalia using person.

Now I want to talk about the good parts, because as I said I do really like this show.

All the actors are autistics, and that is FANTASTIC. I am super tired of us being represented by allisitics, so that was super nice to see.

It has representation of tons of different types of autistics, and shows us as unique people (or in this case animals ^^ ) rather than emotionless copies of eachother.

And finally, it made me feel like I was being represented. It made me feel seen. I related to multiple characters in multiple ways and that was so so nice to finally see someone like me.

[autisticdreamdrop]

loud hands are happy hands

[tailing-sun]

Hello everyone.

Since today marks the start of Neurotypical Awareness Month, I would like to take this time to share how the vaccine-caused disease called neurotypicalism affects me, personally, even though I’m not neurotypical, and equally I would like you to connect and share how all of you have been affected in your life by the behaviours of those poor, unfortunate people who suffer from being off the spectrum.

Though this disease is more common in boys, some girls suffer with it, too, and it’s estimated that it affects an astonishing 67 of every 68 people. Some of us have neurotypical relatives, some have friends or acquaintances who are affected by this pitiful condition. And every day, we normal folks struggle to understand why they put us through what they do, these people whom we love dearly but will never be able to communicate with. And it’s especially important for us to remember how hard it must be for parents to have to deal with their neurotypical children, who exhibit embarrassing behaviour such as

-Speaking in loud, grating voices.

-Not having any special interests.

-Throwing fits of rage when asked to turn their music down or not talk so loudly with their friends.

-Speaking in vague, unclear language and never explaining what they mean.

-Turning helpful stimming devices for autistics into cringe memes.

And countless more humiliating displays of abnormality, even in public. Sure, it’s probably hard for them that they have to live in a world where nobody understands them and hardly anybody even bothers to try, but we don’t care about that because they’re not like us. Let’s instead focus on their parents and what they go through, because even though they’re not the ones with the disability, it should be all about them.

As perfectly normal autistic individuals, there are things we can do to help the neurotypical individuals in our lives. As a Christian, I fully believe that each and every one of us is here for the purpose of spreading kindness and love, and sometimes, God sends us angels in the form of neurotypicals to test our patience and kindness, and to see how we really treat the weakest members of our community. People with neurotypicalism are not like us. Even as adults, they have the minds of young children. And though we will never fully understand them, we can help them in our own, non-problematic, non-patronizing way. Neurotypicalism speaks, and it’s time to listen. And by listen, I mean not listen, but form our own warped conclusions based on shaky, superficial evidence and outdated research.

So please, send your donations, however large, to me, so that I can send them to psychological research centres to fund a cure for neurotypicalism, and definitely not so I can buy PS5s in bulk and sell them online at double the price, trust me.

/s

(Author’s Note: If you’re neurotypical and you’re offended by this, good.)

[germcore]

loud hands are happy hands-! (sometimes lol) - Strawberry 🍓

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

As an autistic kid I realized pretty quickly that the stereotypical flapping motions got me funny responses (I specifically remember my mom laughing that I looked like I was trying to fly away) so I shifted to gesticulating like either Wallace (”Cheese, Gromit!”) for when I'm thrilled or Heath Ledger’s Joker (”Well then everyone loses their minds!”) when I'm anxious but I’m not sure how much more “normal” those look

[monologuerhead]

Socializing through Silence

[I wish you wouldn’t interpret my silence as silence.

My silence is, in fact, a compliment. It means that I am being my natural self. It means that I am comfortable around you, that I trust you enough to engage my way of knowing, my way of speaking and interacting.

When I dilute my silences with words��� your words, the out-of-the-mouth and off-the-cuff kind— I often do so out of fear. Fear that my rhetorical commonplaces— the commonplaces that lie on my hands, spring in my eyes, or sit nestled in empty sounds— will bring you shame. Fear that my ways of communicating will be branded as pathology, as aberrant, as not being communication at all. Fear that I will lose my job. Fear that I will lose your friendship, guidance, or interest in me. Fear that I’ll be institutionalized. Fear that I will be infantilized. Fear that I will be seen as less than human.

This isn’t to say that my use of your language is always a product of fear. There are times when I genuinely want to use it, understand it, and learn about and from it. I understand that speaking is how you prefer to communicate. I understand that speaking is how you best learn and interact. I understand that you take great joy in speaking and listening to others speak. And I do, I really do want to share in that joy.

But the burden can’t always rest on me. I have a language too, one that I take joy in, one that I want to share. And when you deny me that— when you identify my silence as a personality flaw, a detriment, a symptom, a form of selfishness, a matter in need of behavioral therapy or “scripting” lessons—  when you do these things, you hurt me. You hurt me deeply. You deny me that which I need in order to find my way through this confusing, oppressive, neurotypical world.

My silence isn’t your silence. My silence is rich and meaningful. My silence is reflection, meditation, and processing. My silence is trust and comfort. My silence is a sensory carnival. My silence is brimming with the things and people around me— and only in that silence can I really know them, appreciate them, “speak” to them, and learn from them.

Speaking is an unnatural process for me. When socializing through speech, I will almost always be awkward, and I am OK with that awkwardness. In fact, I am learning to embrace that awkwardness, learning to reclaim and redefine that awkwardness. I am sorry you’re not OK with that, sorry that you feel I need to practice, or take anti-psychotics, or frequent the university hospital’s psych ward. I’m sorry that you won’t appreciate me for who I am and how I operate in the world. I’m sorry that I can no longer consider you an ally, confidante, or friend.]

M. Remi Yergeau, Loud Hands

[calamitys-child]

One of my favourite mundane weirdnesses about Edinburgh is that we set the big clock visible approaching the station to be 3 minutes fast to make sure people are on time for their trains. My Favourite mundane weirdness of Edinburgh is that we check this by firing a cannon.

[dreamdropsystem]

loud sleeves

[autisticflapper]

Loud Hands (2018) by whimsyandretro

[yellowtrinity]

building my case for why edgeworth should have adopted polly the parrot after... you know

[soapbubbles511]

Stede Bonnet you absolute bitch. I love you so much.

[min-play]

clapping really loud but can only do it once

[silverfoxphil]

grabs you hits you eats you bites you grabs you grabs you grabs you

[ryllen]

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