Parenting.

When u wake up and ur teddy bear is on the floor

Wallace is Autistic

So I re-watched all of the Wallace & Gromit shorts, and their feature film, and I could not help but observe that Wallace showcases several traits found in autistic people. These include:

· He stims, in every appearance.  Particularly he is known for his little arm gesture (see gif above) he makes when he refers to his love of cheese, but he also does this in other instances when he is happy.  He also exhibits a habit for moving his fingers in a particular fashion, or rubbing his face

· He has different special interests including his love, and knowledge of, cheese, as well as his engineering skills.  Whenever he gets into a new career he really devotes his time and energy into it, so much so that he can change his entire house for it (see “A Matter of Loaf and Death”)

· He is really not good in social situations with human characters.  He does not observe nuances that are typically easy to observe for allistic people (“I would like, [my] toupee” “Oh, well we take cash or check”), is extremely blunt in regards to what he says to people, and always assumes that people are honest with him (see his relationship with Piella Bakewell, and how distraught and confused he is when she reveals that she was lying to him). His relationship with animals, who commonly communicate non-verbally, is much easier for him to comprehend hence his consistently strong relationship with Gromit

· Has a tendency to repeat what he’s saying, especially when he’s stressed (see the climaxes of “The Wrong Trousers” and “A Close Shave” especially)

· The shorts imply that he has a very specific routine that Gromit recognizes (“Porridge today Gromit. Tuesday”)

· In “A Grand Day Out” Wallace is shown drawing his schematics.  He is shown interjecting his detailed schematics with little puzzles, such as playing tic-tac-toe by himself, which made me think of how autistic people, myself included, commonly have to interject their work periods side activities such as pacing, puzzles, or whatever works best for them

I could go on, but these specific details stood out to me as an autistic person.

White people can’t have dreads, and that’s okay!

So a lot of people tell me they want dreads because it’s “cool” or “edgy” or it speaks to them or whatever. But y’all have great braided hairstyles of your own! Look:

But I want DREADS! Like the VIKINGS!!!

For one the Vikings didn’t have dreads/matts. To take from @bornabitch-allthedaysandnights past post: “Similarly Vikings all wore elaborate braids and were so obsessed with combs that they are one of the most common Viking era artifacts found, AND they were buried with their detail carved combs, which shows their significance. More importantly, Viking bog bodies prove that they used complex (think LOTR) style braiding.” But that’s okay because guess what!

I’ve got y’all!!!

BOOM now you’re a cool Viking AND not offending anyone! That’s like 1000000x better now isn’t it? There’s so many great styles for y’all I don’t understand why you’d want to steal styles from other cultures. Likkkkeeeee

Come on every style up there is better than when y’all do this stuff like seriously 😐

this feels appropriate

that is true

Some facts about cats!!!

A facts post about cats, because cats are one of my special interests!!!

The first named cat lived in 1400 BC!!! The kitty’s name was Nedjem, which roughly translates to “sweet” or “pleasant”!!!

Most cats do not have eyelashes.

There is a fairly common belief that if you dream of a white cat, good luck will come to you!!!

1 cat year equals to 7 human years.

A group of kittens is called a kindle, and a group of adult cats is called a clowder!!!!

Though many cultures consider black cats to be bad luck, Great Britain and Japan actually consider black cats to be good luck!!! In English Midlands, newly wed brides are given black cats to bless their marriage, and in Japan, crossing a black cat’s path is particularly considered to be good luck for single women.

Cat videos have been around since 1894!!!

Cats have more bones than humans, totaling at 244!!!! (wow!!!!!!!!!)

Because of their inability to roar, cheetahs are technically classified as lesser cats!!!!! Big cats such as lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars have the ability to roar due to an adapted larynx and hyoid apparatus.

Cats have a special organ called the vomeronosal organ, or, the Jacobson’s organ. It functions as a scent analyzer.

Cats meow as a communication towards humans specifically.

The sound of a cat’s purring has the ability to heal human bones!!!!!!!

This echidna, in Australia, had been seeking ants in red earth. by Rod Waddington

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