#world autism awareness day

[softestmidnight]

I know I'm late and stuff but happy World Autism Awareness Day! I made both an Autism and Neurodivergent ouroboros for such occasion.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

♾️ Books for World Autism Month + Neurodiversity Celebration Week

♾️ The last week of March was Neurodiversity Celebration Week. My post is (obviously) late, but April is also World Autism Month (beginning with World Autism Awareness Day on April 2). To generate additional awareness, here are a few books by autistic authors and/or about autistic characters. On the last slide, you'll also find books with additional neurodiversity rep (including characters with ADHD, dyslexia, and OCD).

✨ The Bride Test - Helen Hoang ✨ Daniel, Deconstructed - James Ramos ✨ Tonight We Rule the World - Zack Smedley ✨ Paige Not Found - Jen Wilde ✨ Something More - Jackie Khalilieh ✨ Uncomfortable Labels - Laura Kate Dale ✨ The Luis Ortega Survival Club - Sonora Reyes ✨ Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl - Brianna R. Shrum and Sara Waxelbaum ✨ The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - Andrew Joseph White ✨ The Brightsiders - Jen Wilde ✨ The Boys in the Back Row - Mike Jung ✨ Hating Jesse Harmon - Robin Mimna

✨ Queens of Geek - Jen Wilde ✨ The Maid - Nita Prose ✨ The Heart Principle - Helen Hoang ✨ The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson ✨ Even If We Break - Marieke Nijkamp ✨ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon ✨ Unseelie - Ivelisse Housman ✨ This Could Be Us - Kennedy Ryan ✨ Act Your Age, Eve Brown - Talia Hibbert ✨ The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang ✨ On the Edge of Gone - Corinne Duyvis ✨ Against the Stars - Christopher Hartland

✨ Tell Me How It Ends - Quinton Li ✨ Izzy at the End of the World - K.A. Reynolds ✨ Late Bloomer - Mazey Eddings ✨ Fake It Till You Bake It - Jamie Wesley ✨ Whatever Happens - Micalea Smeltzer ✨ Gimmicks and Glamour - Lauren Melissa Ellzey ✨ Last Call at the Local - Sarah Grunder Ruiz ✨ Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling - Elise Bryant ✨ The Charm Offensive - Alison Cochrun ✨ A Prayer for Vengeance - Leanne Schwartz ✨ Tilly in Technicolor - Mazey Eddings ✨ If Only You - Chloe Liese

[nocontextlestat]

it’s autism awareness day so y’all WILL be aware of ME and HIM

[lyricthecat-12]

Feliz Día Mundial de la Concienciación sobre el Autismo!

[ar0ace-m3ss]

It's World Autism Awareness Day!! So everyone is required to pay attention to me and listen to me talk about my special interest. The mighty boosh / enything slightly related to noel fielding (don't worry, I love Julian just as much)

[magical-tsubasa]

🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙

I have a mild ASD. I hope this day will help people learn more about ASD and autism💙

[sweetbunnicreations]

Happy World Autism Awareness & Acceptance Day! 🩷 The most importance thing is educating people on what autism is, uplifting the voices in the community that need it most and demanding changes to the system to support caregivers, children and adults alike.

Thank you for supporting me, an autistic adult, in liking my artwork. I feel very grateful to be able to share my art and have people support me ⭐

Supporting your autistic peers, educating yourself on autism and donating to relevant charities will really help during autism awareness month. Acceptance is a great goal, but we need more awareness now than ever. 💜

#autismacceptance #autismawareness #worldautismawarenessday

[sandytrish008]

Today, April 2nd is World Autism Awareness/Acceptance Day (it's the whole month, in fact, so expect more drawings on the topic from time to time!), I wish all the best to my friends and followers who are also on the spectrum like me 🧩♾🌈

[frisiunia]

Papyrus is autistic!

I believe that Papyrus from Undertale is autistic. And now, I'm going to prove that!!!

With arguments!

AND REASONS!

LETS GOOOOOOOOO!

Oh, and I confirm that Papyrus from Undermourning has ASD.

Before we start...

I just wanted to state that autism is the whole spectrum. Every person with autism is different from each other, just like neurotypical people are different from each other. People can't be more or less autistic and no one checks every single known symptom. Because they're many different symptoms and as I've said - it's the whole spectrum.

+Autism is not an illness. "Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder marked by deficits in reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior." (definition from: Wikipedia)

Reading social cues

So people with ASD tend to have difficulty with understanding some social situations and other people's emotions or completely misinterpret them. I want to also clear out that the austitic actually understand the basic emotions and how they look. Like smiling when you're happy, crying when you're sad, yelling when you're angry. But they can have problem with reading more complex ones.

However, worse understanding of social cues do not seem to aply to Papyrus that much BUT there is a reason I want to speak about it. You can get a feeling that Papyrus is more taught in this sphere rather than naturaly understanding things like this. You see, people with ASD can learn like normal people. So they can learn about social interactions like how to better understand emotions and react in certain moments.

For example, Papyrus understands that it's a nice thing to bring your friend a gift when you visit them. You can see it on the hang out with Undyne. But it feels more like Papyrus sees it as a rule rather than thinking if Undyne likes the gift. He just takes her word for it. On the hang out with Undyne, he is also able to notice the tension between Frisk and Undyne. But the way he reacts also feels like he learnt about this kind of situations and how he can deal with them.

Also after training with Alphys when he phones Frisk, you can see that Papyrus is aware that something is wrong with the doctor. He just doesn't says it outloud. It's even something that I have a problem with. I see that something is wrong with a person but I don't have courage to be straightforward about that because I'm not sure if I'm interpreting things correctly.

The situations where Papyrus actually seems to misinterpret social cues is when he's insulted. He always twists insults into something nice. It can be either because of very solid mentality that autistic people can have (in Papyrus case it's belief that he's the greatest and people would have no reason to insult him) or that he's actually aware that things others say aren't nice but he learnt that this is a way to deal with such situations. I personally think it's the first reason. Maybe it's because I myself tend to have very solid and hard to change beliefs.

Communication

So Papyrus is communicating very well, isn't he? And isn't autism a disorder that makes people unable to communicate properly?... Well, it's not like this. As I said, autism is the whole spectrum. And some symptoms can contrast with others. Some people with autism can have lower empathy and some can have higher empathy. Communicating is also one of those cases. Some people in spectrum may have difficulty with it but for example I'm communicating verbally very well. I even have very wider vocabulary (at least in my native language).

Actually, we can say that Papyrus has Asperger Syndrome which is a disorder in autism spectrum. I myself have Asperger Syndrome. Said syndrome is characterized by for example... very rich vocabulary. You can definetely say that Papyrus does use many different and fancy words. Just go through his dialogues in game!

You know what the autistic can be bad in? Lying. I personally never lie. I just find it one of the worst things that can be done. And Papyrus? He definetely dislike lying either. When he asks us about our clothes and we are being honest about it and won't change it later, he doesn't lie to Undyne and shows relief that he didn't have to lie to anyone. When we lie or tell the truth but change our armor, he lies to Undyne and visibly doesn't feel good about lying to his friend.

Hyperfixations and repeatability

Hyperfixations are very often in ASD. People with autism often obsess over very specific things.

Papyrus' hyperfixations are definetely puzzles and cooking spaghetti. Like, puzzles are the way he tries to capture Frisk with. He has bookshelf with complex tomes about puzzles creation. He's resposible for most of the puzzles we have to solve in Snowdin. About spaghetti, it's very obvious. This is the only thing Papyrus is cooking and you can see it's something he enjoys a lot even despite his food probably isn't too tasty...

Papyrus doesn't cook anything besides spaghetti and you know what autistic people often like? Repeatability. The autistic often stick to routine and plan their day. I myself like repeatablity and dislike unexpected changes. That's also what I have such solid beliefs that takes time to change and I believe Papyrus has the same. Now is about something else. First of all, Papyrus' clothes. Accoarding to Sans, Papyrus has been wearing the same clothes for months and didn't even take it off to shower. Sounds familiar... I MEAN-! I don't wear the same clothes for months, only for a few weeks and I take them off when I'm taking a shower. Papyrus' case is very extreme. Nonetheless, it proves my point.

We also can see his dislike to unexpected changes and unwillingness to try new things which are also often symptom of autism. I won't even explain it. I'll just put here parts of Papyrus' interview:

Stimming

There's not so many examples of it and the examples can be a little forced but I wanted to mention it anyway.

"Self-stimulatory behavior is the repetition of physical movements, sounds, words, moving objects, or other repetitive behaviors." (Wikipedia again!)

So stimming is used by people mostly to calm down but it's also very often symptom of ASD and also ADHD. For example, I can sometimes start moving back and forward without even noticing when I started doing it.

So does Papyrus stim? Well, here are my examples:

Stomping feet; Papyrus has animation where he does it. He repeatedly stomps his feet.

"Papyrus is rattling his bones."; it's one of narrator texts that can appear in Papyrus' battle which can also be read as stimming.

I understand if this argument was not very convincing. It was more an expansion than anything.

Childish?

Okay, okay Papyrus definetely does have some autistic traits but what if we're digging too deep into this? What if the point of his character was simply being childish? After all, he act like a child at times. He's gulliable as he proved with Flowey. He reads children picture books and he probably doesn't even read them by himself. Sans reads him bedtime stories. Besides books for children, Papyrus also has figures in his room and his bed looks like a bed child would sleep in...

No. Papyrus isn't childish. No, no, no, NO. It's often for autistic people to for example watch cartoons or sleep with plushies even when they're adult. Hell! Neurotypical people do that too.

Yes, Papyrus is naive. But people with ASD can often have problems with trust being little or too trusting.

So no. Papyrus is not childish. He's autistic. I hope I've been able to convince ya to this.

Thank you for reading<3

[snakesong]

To the stranger who's been dutifully leaving anti-Autism $peaks pamphlets around campus: I salute you, and wish you the best of luck on your exams!

[melyasssy]

World autism awareness day!

I'm Yassy and I'm autistic, mine is support level two ‹3

[lara-prism-light]

How are my autistic fellas doing today?? Happy World Autism Awareness Day!

[mittenwonders]

Guess what April is?!? 💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🩵

I prefer the term “acceptance” rather than “awareness.” There is nothing to be “aware” of other than to treat others with kindness, love and respect. Acceptance is more fitting in this scenario because autistic people cannot change and they should not have to change in order to be accepted by society as nothing is wrong with them.

“Autism is on the rise!! It’s the vaccines causing this!!!” False. Autism is being more properly diagnosed which is why you are seeing more cases of it. Even children who have never been vaccinated have been diagnosed. It is a genetic disorder at the forefront and is heavily researched by geneticists all over the world. There are thousands of published articles and research in medical journals.

Autism is not a one size fits all which is often why the puzzle piece was the “symbol” of this disorder. However as children became adults, the puzzle piece became a bit….childish and honestly insulting. They are not a puzzle to be figured out or solved. Rather, it is a spectrum that can be severe or mild or anything in between. As these adults have learned to function and be accepted in this world, they themselves have advocated for the symbol to be changed to the infinity loop instead. Please respect this communities wishes and refrain from the puzzle piece if you can.

Having a nephew who was diagnosed at 18 months old was a huge change for our entire family. He is also non-verbal. We do accommodate his needs while also incorporating him into everything we do. It’s finding balance. He loves going to Broadway shows, and the movies like any other kid. We take him to restaurants and try to give as much normalcy as possible while still recognizing he has his limits and if he’s over stimulated, we know it’s best to leave and go home. We have been met with grace, kindness and acceptance from lovely strangers and scorn from asshats who believe he shouldn’t even be in public.

The worst is around Halloween. He loves trick or treating!!! But he can’t talk and say “trick or treat.” The amount of OLDER people who refuse to give him anything until he talks is heartbreaking. He should not have to carry around a blue bucket or a sign that says “I’m autistic.” It’s a disorder but it’s not his identity as a person.

So please be kind to everyone wherever you go. Sometimes it is visible and sometimes it is hidden. If you see someone struggling, lend a helping hand. Be more kind and accepting of everyone even if they’re different than you. If you see a parent with an autistic child struggling, ask how you can help. It will make their day, I promise.

Last note: please do not support the organization, Autism Speaks. They are cruel and their methodology is about changing the person to fit into societies standards which is impossible. Think of gay conversion therapy but for autistic people. Instead, look at local autistic organizations. I can give a list if anyone needs it. 🩵

[thunderbone]

English

Happy World Autism Awareness Day!

This is Rogan, one of my oldest OCs I created (yes, he's autistic). I won this drawing in an art raffle of Arthur Machado, also known as Tururs. Thank you so much, sweet ❤️ To this day I've never even seen an artist doing arts for World Autism Awareness Day (like, If several artists make drawings for LGBT pride/pride month and anti-racist drawings, why not make drawings for all people with autism in the world?), but it was thanks to Tururs that I finally got to see this.

If you want to see Tururs' work (who, by the way, makes wonderful arts), click here: www.deviantart.com/tururs

Soon I will post more drawings of my other OCs who are also autistic, made by other amazing artists I met. Below is a phrase I invented myself ^^

"It doesn't matter if everyone around you thinks you're strange, if they ever told you that you live in your own little world or if they called you retarded. We are all different, without exception. But there's something fantastic about that, isn't there? Autism is a different way of seeing the world with a unique way of being. Being different is showing the unique being that you are, because it's really strange to try to be like everyone else just to please those who don't accept you the way you are. So stay different and be happy!"

Português (Brasil)

Feliz Dia da Conscientização Mundial do Autismo!

Este é o Rogan, um dos meus OCs mais antigos que criei (sim, ele é autista). Eu ganhei este desenho em um sorteio de arte do Arthur Machado, também conhecido como Tururs. Muito obrigado, fofo ❤️

Até hoje nunca vi um artista sequer fazendo desenhos para o Dia Mundial da Conscientização do Autismo (tipo, se vários artistas fazem desenhos do mês do orgulho/orgulho LGBT e desenhos antirracista, por que não fazer desenhos para todas as pessoas com autismo no mundo?), mas foi graças à você que eu finalmente pude ver isso.

Caso queiram conhecer o trabalho do Tururs (que por sinal faz desenhos maravilhosos), cliquem aqui: www.deviantart.com/tururs

Em breve eu postarei mais desenhos dos meus outros OCs que também são autistas, feitos por outros artistas incríveis que conheci. Abaixo está uma frase que eu mesmo inventei ^^

"Não importa se todos ao seu redor te acham estranho, se te disseram alguma vez que você vive no seu mundinho ou se te chamaram de retardado. Todos nós somos diferentes, sem exceção. Mas há algo de fantástico nisso, não é? Autismo é uma maneira diferente de ver o mundo com jeito único de ser. Ser diferente é mostrar o ser único que você é, porque estranho mesmo é tentar ser igual à todo mundo só pra agradar quem não te aceita do jeito que é. Então continue diferente e seja feliz!"

[murderousink23]

04/02/2024 is Childhelp National Day of Hope 🇺🇸, National Ferret Day 🇺🇸, National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day 🇺🇸, National Reconciliation Day 🇺🇸, World Autism Awareness Day 🇺🇳