#rather than sexy neurotypical club

[peachmoonn]

No one should ever let autism stop them from hitting the club. i like to hit the club in the most neurodivergent way possible. all i have to do is

- put all my important belongings (phone, keys, wallet) in my front pockets or in a fanny pack

- keep my hands in above pockets or on fanny pack AT ALL TIMES!!!!!! to make sure i’m not getting ROBBED!!!!!!! this helps alleviate some of the anxiety of being around so many strangers

- wear earplugs (the silicone kind that fit my ear holes and dont drive me fucking insane)

- stay completely sober the entire time (if i drink i get sleepy and then i want to go home)

- dance hard as fuck (it is dark so no one can judge how i behave inside my own skin) (you HAVE to go somewhere where the dj is halfway decent im begging you to support local djs who do cool music that makes you want to dance) (for me that is the only point of club)

and that is my play by play for enjoying the clurb as a sensory-seeking experience rather than a terrifying overstimulating nightmare !

[dr-claire-browne]

The world will soon be spared my terrible content for the following reasons

Jared leaving changed the dynamic of the show and it still isn't the same. I miss my tall sexi boi every episode

It has repeatedly been established that Shaun's dad was abusive and his mother enabled the abuse. Trying to retroactively make them sympathetic by showing flashbacks where they were just "ill-equipped" or "misinformed" about Shaun's autism is gross

Using Shaun's bereavement to introduce a love triangle is some real amateur bs

Speaking of which, aside from Claire and Morgan, the women in this show are disposable if they aren't a romantic interest. Lim, Carly, Debbie, Lea, even Aoki only really get screen time if they are actively a romantic interest. Claire only gets screen time if she's being traumatised

The Coyle storyline. If they didn't want to continue it they could've just ended it after Jared came back but instead they started this whole thread about Claire finding other women he harassed or assaulted to expose him then it was never. mentioned. again.

I have literally lost count of how many times doctors have disrespected patients over the 3 seasons. It seems every episode at least one of them is lecturing a patient about their life/medical decisions or telling them their making a mistake/selfish/wasting the hospital's time. Remember when Neil ignored a DNR???

What makes it worse is that the doctors always end up being right so the patients don't seem to care they were ignored???

The show pulls out receipts so selectively. Jared got called out for dismissing Claire's harassment, Claire got pulled up on treating Lim differently than Melendez (?), and was punished (severely) for going over Neil's head, but Melendez never faces any consequences for his multiple protocol and HIPPA violations.

Also Shaun accused that Muslim patient of being a terrorist (wrongly) after he spent the whole damn episode talking about how unbiased he is and the ending was just like 'lol xd'

Jessica disappeared at the end of season one and, despite being engaged to one of the main characters and a surrogate daughter for another, she has not been mentioned

Which also means the hospital doesn't seem to have legal representation anymore? The legal angles to medical dilemmas were explored throughout season one but it doesn't matter anymore I guess??

The show has a weird thing about pregnant women. I can recall 2 pregnant patients in the hospital and both were like 'I'd rather die than potentially harm the baby'. It feels off and pro-lifey to me.

Lim's friend whose baby had the unexplained head injury had been alone with her baby for weeks, never had a single moment's break and said "every moment" was a joy. I mean that is the dumbest, craziest shit I have ever heard. Have the writers ever spoken to a parent??

Some of these episodes are such a gd mess. "My new wife has a gun which I hate but it's OK bc tiddays" I mean, what the HELL

Morgan trying to take an underage boy to a strip club then flashing him. I know it was supposed to be lighthearted but it's just inappropriate on so many levels and I didn't think it was cute. Especially given that last season we got the whole "if the genders were reversed we'd be having a serious conversation" line.

The show has touched on some social issues, like unequal access to health care, racism, sexism, but it's rare and always feels shallow.

If you're gonna do a stereotypical storyline with your characters (Claire is 100% a black woman trope) you have to at least something interesting with it and in 3 and a half seasons they have not

Whenever they have someone talk about how autistic people can do the things a neurotypical person can do and should be given the same opportunities, it feels empty knowing that the show cast a neurotypical person as Shaun.

The show has repeatedly aligned itself with Autism Speaks

The deaths on this show are disproportionately black women.

Despite how much this show talks about sex, it's weirdly sex negative

It's extremely heterosexual. They came out the gate with one or two gay patients and a trans girl in season one and since then it's been, like, aggressively heterosexual

Where is Claire's friend who is dying of cancer?

Where is Neil's sister?

These are just off the top of my head

[asreoninfusion]

1-4,7,10, 11,13,14,16, 19-21, 25,26,30,34, 39,52,54,55, 61,62,65,67 also 69 - (b) - How mature do you think i am on a scale of 1 to 10 giggity giggity!

That’s a lotta questions! :o I’mma put this one under a cut, lol.

01: Do you have a good relationship with your parents?

Yeah, my mum especially. To the point where we’ve been discussing buying a plot of land for my hobbit house and splitting the payments and I’d be 100% fine with doing that and trusting there to be no issues with the money and also we’d probably build the house together. She’s on board with my hobbit house plans.

02: Who did you last say “I love you” to?

Uuuuuumm, I don’t think I’ve said it for a long time, I can’t remember. I imagine it probably would have been my mum, but more likely in writing that in person ‘cause I’ve been away at uni and haven’t seen any of the family in a few months now.

03: Do you regret anything?

Many stupid small things and instances where I’ve embarrassed myself by being socially awkward. Nothing major though.

04: Are you insecure?

Depends on what about. I am content about some things, like being able to achieve things independently and get by on my own and also I’m generally perfectly happy with how I look, except for in photos which pisses me off because I know I look better than I do in photos and it annoys me that they make look bad. Fuck photos.

But then I am hideously insecure when it comes to dealing with other people like ahahahaha I am so bad it’s embarrassing. I need to go back to self-isolating I can handle that so much better. Every time I try to interact with people I end up fucking up somehow and hating myself.

07: What did you last eat?

I still haven’t eaten today, so it would have been dinner last night. I tried some of Domino’s new meatball things at a society/social thing last night, they weren’t that great.

10: When was your last physical fight?

Uhhh. Do sword fights count? Cause I imagine it would have been when I was taking the sword fighting lessons. That was like three years ago now.

11: Do you like someone?

Presuming this means like like as in crush-type like, no.

13: Do you hate anyone at the moment?

Nn, hate is a bit strong. There’s a few people in the aforementioned society that I am wary of, because they’ve made comments that are kind of racist or transphobic or otherwise Not Cool, but I’m too fucking weak-ass to call them out on it.

14: Do you miss someone?

Not really. It’s kind of weird, like, I say I’m close to my family but at the same time long periods of separation seem totally normal and I don’t miss them much at all idk.

16: How exactly are you feeling at the moment?

I... am still not entirely okay about last night’s society thing and the guy who was making transphobic comments. Like, if there’s one thing I really fucking hate, it’s people who spout opinions - usually opinions that are shitting on other people’s existences - when they clearly know fuck-all about what they’re talking about. Making judgements without knowing the full situation kind of thing. 

But I don’t feel like I know enough either to really stand my ground, so I say nothing because, as I mentioned before, I am fucking disgustingly weak. Like, evil flourishes if good people stand by and do nothing and all that jazz.

So, I feel gross about the comments, and I feel gross for not saying anything, and I just want to barricade myself off from the world because I can’t fucking handle anything, and then I feel gross about that too because ahahaha that is not how to respond to conflict.

(The amount of weakness + running away from my problems has gotten so bad I can’t even project onto Cloud anymore, even though he used to be my go-to identifier for that kind of shit. orz)

19: Would you go back in time if you were given the chance?

Mmm, I don’t know, that could end badly. I don’t think there’s anywhen I’d want to go to enough to risk it. I’d rather just go somewhere else geographically in the current time.

20: Where was the last place you snogged someone?

I have not snogged anyone at any point ever.

21: What are your plans for this weekend?

Too much plans, I wanna sleep. But I want to get the tables and graphs done for one lab report and do a decent chunk of the research for the case study thing I have to do for next week. Then I’m gonna hang out with a friend this evening. Tomorrow there are mentions of a group of friends going to the Chinese supermarket and getting together and cooking stuff?? (We’ve done that before but there has been very little in the way of organisation/confirmation of anything this time round so idk.) And there’s the social for the BDSM club people tomorrow evening as well.

This is too much people I’m gonna burn out by the end of the weekend aaaaaahh. DX

Also I needed to try a wash my hair at some point, because we do not talk about how horrifically bad that situation is. (I look at those posts that occassionally crop up with neurotypical people horrified that someone with a mental illness might not shower for two or three days because spoons and I die imaging the reaction if they knew how godawful I am with that shit.)

25: Do you miss anyone from your past?

Nah. I’ve moved countries enough that I am very good at forgetting people and moving on, I’ve had a lot of practice. That’s probably not entirely a good thing, but.

26: What are you craving right now?

Breakfast.

30: What’s irritating you right now?

I think I already gave a far too detailed answer for that in question 16. >>

34: Who/what was your last dream about?

Oooooh. I did have quite an involved dream, but I can’t remember it all that well now. I think the vine guy was there briefly for some reason.

39: How old were you when you had your first kiss?

I have not yet had a first kiss.

52: Do you believe everything happens for a reason?

Nah, sometimes shit just happens because people are assholes. Most times there will be a way to rebuild and make something better out of whatever situation, but I wouldn’t say it ‘happens for a reason’ as if people were meant to suffer however they have.

54: Is cheating ever okay?

No. I mean, I don’t understand it anyway because being ace I’m just here like ‘wtf??? is it really that damn hard to keep it in your pants???’ lol. But if you are interested in having more than one partner, good communication and polyamorous type arrangements are a much better way to go if everyone’s on board with that. 

55: Are you mean?

Never intentionally, though I imagine my awkwardness sometimes can be interpreted as rudeness.

61: Is it cute when a boy/girl calls you baby?

It would depend on the person saying it. I used to have a friend a very long time ago who called me and our other friend ‘babe’, that was cute. If I trusted the person and it was done in a joking but affectionate kind of manner within a friendship/queerplatonic relationship I’d be fine with it. If it was someone I didn’t know so well and, like, if they’re trying to be sexy with it like a ‘hey baby’ kind of thing, that would be weird and creepy ‘cause no thank you.

62: What makes you happy?

Long hikes in lots of nature when the weather is nice, people saying nice things about fic or that thing that happens where we all bounce ideas off each other and end up with fic of art and art of fic, uni work that is actually fun to do and I feel accomplished when I make something I’m proud of, randomly having a gigglefit over recalling stupid funny things (mostly dumb vines or Markiplier, lol), when my voice cooperates and I can sing well.

65: Your best friend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do?

That is awkward as hell because I can guarantee I won’t feel the same way about them, soooo. If it was my best friend of the same sex that has more potential, since I would consider a queerplatonic kind of relationship with someone I was really close friends with and trusted a lot, but I’d be 100 times more comfortable with it if that person was female as well. (Or nonbinary, or trans, actually... now I think about, it’s only cis males that make me really nervous about being liked by. A generalisation, I know, but if any demographic is going to feel entitled to more than I’m comfortable with, it’d be them.)

67: Who was the last person of the opposite sex you talked to?

Probably someone at the uni society thing yesterday, I guess.

69: Do you believe in soulmates?

No, certainly not as a universal thing. Like, it’s sweet to some people click so well it feels like they’re soulmates, but I don’t think that can be expected for everyone.