#so this is just an idea

[heretherebedork]

Idea for a horror video game: you are playing as a nonspeaking autistic child in an ABA/compliance based classroom. You can see the ghosts haunting the school and are trying to tell the teachers but the teachers are more focused on your 'defiance' and are constantly shutting down every attempt at communication you make.

This would include segments of trying to navigate an AAC device to tell them what's going on (but specifically with no written words on the basis that the child cannot/has not been taught to read and must rely on often abstract or difficult to interpret pictures and colors), the need to stim on a regular basis which draws negative attention from the teachers, dyspraxia which reverse the controls for movement on an irregular basis, not being able to stim leading to overstimulation (illustrated by the sounds and lights in the room growing brighter and louder and more distorted) and with a meltdown causing the ghosts to grow more powerful....

Setting the game in a classroom allows for many of the tasks to be simple enough to let the challenge really be focused on the communication more than anything else while still creating goals and tasks that illustrate how complex even simple tasks can be with certain disabilities as well as bringing more attention to the effort that goes into learning to use an AAC device.

The idea is not that the autistic child should be pitied or needs to be protected but rather that they are trying to protect other people but are being shut down by neurotypical expectations of expression and communication rather than their own tries being respected.

The game would be called Quiet Hands.

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[notherpuppet]

First Meeting

[wanologic]

sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool

[midnight-coffee94]

No single line has ever wrecked me as hard as this one from the Good Place and I think about it constantly

[crowkip]

yeehaw, baby!

[stargirl230]

you’re my hero!

bnha doomed yuri was not on my 2024 bingo card

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[uncanny-tranny]

I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

[hinamie]

I'll rip in hands and teeth and take a bite

[stil-lindigo]

lighthearted.

if this comic resonated with you, please consider donating to this palestinian escape fund (vetted by @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein) as it is less than $7,000 away from it's goal.

i turn 24 today. To celebrate, I made this comic to be a spiritual successor to lead balloon, a comic in which I talked about the darkest period of my life so far.

A lot has changed since my 23rd birthday and this one. My priorities have shifted a lot, in ways that I think are mostly good. But i think the best part about today is that suicide has gone back to being a far away notion. I'm really lucky, and I'm grateful for that.

[nouverx]

*proceeds to drink the whole bottle*

Yeah Alastor you're gonna be loved and appreciated wether you want it or not :)

[batneko]

okay okay okay one more dungeon meshi thought

I keep seeing people saying Falin is "better at social cues" than Laios. Y'all she's just quiet. 😭 She just keeps her mouth shut. 😭😭 Girl was proposed to, said "let me think about it," and then did not even tell her own brother. She doesn't know what's going on either she's just quieter about it!!! 😭😭😭

[musubiki]

my favorite fields of mistria boys 🥰

[chloesimaginationthings]

You think FNAF Pit Bonnie has William’s memories?..

[krasnyel]

regular ascot-loving-mystery-solving family