#obviously it’s a spectrum

[gabriels-golden-kazoo]

As an asexual spn fan I feel the need to bestow upon those struggling to work out if they are part of the ace spectrum. My thought process?

Anything below the face and I’m like, hey, congrats on your meatsuit, but what the fuck am I supposed to do with that?

Hope my random epiphany helps.

[just-your-average-tangerine]

Autism is only an invisible disability because you fuckers don't want to acknowledge that a good portion of those freaks, weirdos, creeps, and 'idk they just give me bad vibes' are autistic.

[iabsolutelylovedragons]

You can't handle the aroace instincts of my aroaceness. Observe.

*hits every character with aroace beam*

[our-autistic-experience]

autistic culture is counting how many hours of sleep you'll get before going to sleep at night

[cartoonscientist]

what people think schizophrenia is: I hear voices and there are people living in my vents! Otherwise I’m good.

what schizophrenia really is: I have insomnia, my hunger cues and texture issues change the type of “safe food” I can eat almost every day so it’s a struggle to feed myself, my hands shake, my clothes suddenly become uncomfortable and I have to strip them off and turn them inside out, I can’t pick out people’s voices from ambient noise, I have no motivation and sometimes lose hours in a fugue state when I try to do something, I sometimes stop caring about things that are necessary to keep me alive, I feel like people are talking about me whenever I go out in public, I come up with fictional scenarios that send me into a panic, I can’t control the thoughts that run through my head, I’m either manic or fatigued during the day, sometimes sounds suddenly become so loud that they hurt my ears, I have trouble functioning in structured environments with authority figures and understanding instructions and diagrams, I have memory issues, I can never be sure if faint noises are real or my imagination. But I appreciate music and fiction a lot and I can riff endlessly on a joke.

[saturnniidae]

I love how like, ambiguous so many Studio Ghibli 'couples' are. They're primarily male/female duos, and it's clear how much they love and care for each other, but more often than not it's never explicitly stated to be romantic. And their bonds aren't treated any less for it.

Idk it's just something I've always held close to my heart as someone who grew up not feeling romantic attraction the way most do, it made the characters feel more relatable and human to me, and while I still didnt fully understand my identity (didn't know being aro was a thing), it helped me better reconcile with it. And I feel that's incredibly important.

(And not just from an aro perspective. portrayal of m/f friendships is rare and something we desperately need more of)

Yes, they love each other deeply, but they don't need to kiss or be a couple for that love to be agknowledged and treated with importance. It's not any less than it would be if they weren't platonic. Hell, it doesn't even need to strictly be platonic or romantic. It could just be somewhere in between and that's okay.

Studio Ghibli fr out here making the most alterous duos I've ever seen.

[awetistic-things]

twitter is not a safe space for autistics like you can ask someone as kindly as possible if their post is sarcasm or not and then they hit you a meme with every slur on earth

[syekick-powers]

gotta say, i do not like how lately i've been seeing posts from people who use a person having colorfully dyed hair as a sort of shorthand for "leftist who is actually secretly an asshole." like people making comments like "the girl with blue hair and perfect eyeliner wings is also the one who won't give up their seat for a disabled person on the bus". like we already have to deal with the right-wing fascists using "blue hair and pronouns" as a shorthand for "leftist (trans) person who is insufferable and oversensitive", can we please not turn brightly colored hair into a caricature in leftist circles as well. having brightly dyed hair is not some magic symbol of "person who claims to be a leftist but is actually secretly an asshole". it is a morally neutral trait. and while i'm not discounting anyone's experience with someone with brightly dyed hair who treated them badly, i think that turning it into some kind of shorthand for "asshole" is just going to ultimately hurt us more than it's going to help.

[c-ptsdrecovery]

A lot of us have trouble with self-care because we were taught by early caregivers never to put our own self-interest first.

Here’s the thing: in a perfect society, people would look out for each other, right? Because each person deserves to have people looking out for them. But sometimes there isn’t another person who can take care of you.

You are the person with the primary responsibility of looking out for you. 

Little kids’ parents have that primary responsibility, but when the kid reaches a certain age, they are the one with that primary responsibility.

Yes, you have some level of obligation to take care of friends and family and the needy, but the one person everyone can agree that you definitely have the responsibility to take care of is you. 

Think of it like a logic puzzle. Every person deserves to have somebody taking care of them. You are in a situation where nobody else is going to take care of you or nobody else can take care of you. You still deserve to have somebody taking care of you, and you are the person with the primary responsibility to do that. 

Yes, there are times when we don’t put ourselves first, for whatever reason, but for a lot of us, we have abandoned ourselves and have stopped fulfilling that responsibility to care for ourselves. You are as deserving of care as anybody else, and you are your primary caregiver: if you don’t do it, who will?

[autisticaradiamegido]

hmmm have you ever considered. arafef?

day 339

in fact i have and i think. what if highbloods tall??

[princsstwilightsparkl]

saying "if aroace people can date, then can lesbians date men?" is absolutely aphobic narrative btw!

[merely-a-caricature]

I don’t know why, but being aroace just feels so cool

[tswwwit]

Do any of the dipper incarnations get jealous of the first incarnation? :3

[titan-god-helios]

okay sorry for posting about the big bang theory but it was a hyperfixation a while back and i still have strong feelings about it despite it being an infamous show so. listen to me here.

sheldon should have stayed partnerless. people will argue “ohhh but he got to show his more caring side because of amy” NO !!!!! HE WAS POSSIBLY EVEN MORE CARING TOWARDS LEONARD AND PENNY BEFORE AMY EVEN CAME INTO THE PICTURE. FUCK YOU. AND EVEN IF HE WASNT, EVEN IF HE WAS SAY ON THE APLATONIC SPECTRUM AND SHOWED ZERO PLATONIC LOVE AND INSTEAD JUST RESPECTED THOSE AROUND HIM IN HIS OWN SHELDONY WAY OR WHATEVER LIKE. SO WHAT ???? HE WOULD HAVE STILL BEEN A VITAL INTERESTING CHARACTER TO THE SHOW. MAYBE EVEN MORESO.

sheldon at heart to me will ALWAYS be aroace or at least feel that way even if he doesn’t label himself that way. cause honestly ?? giving him a love interest was purely good for the viewers, not the character himself.