My New Goal In Life Is To Be Refered As A.k.a. The "special Interest" - Lady And Also Having An Alliteration

Autism Acceptance Month: Autistic Headcanons

↳ Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family)

“Well, you wouldn’t have got a sock on the eye if you hadn’t said your family was better than our family!”

Leaf-nosed Bat ⋆ 𖥔 ݁ ˖

There are no disabilities which are raised above ableism. The person in the wheelchair, the autistic person, the person with schizophrenia and the person with an invisible chronic illness may all experience society's ableism in different ways, but none of them can expect to avoid it. So the "you wouldn't say X to Y" advocacy needs to retire yesterday. They say all kinds of ableist shit to all of us and it's time to try out some actual solidarity instead of arguing about who has it slightly worse

One thing that I really don’t love about the online autism community is the way that some people in it like to push back against stereotypes by insisting that no autistic people actually fit these stereotypes ever, period, end of. I see things like “being in IT”, “liking geeky stuff” and stimming in more stigmatized ways (ie. rocking and hand flapping) harped on a lot.

As an autistic programmer who stims by rocking when particularly overwhelmed and enjoys stereotypically geeky things, this is incredibly othering.

“Stereotypical” autistic people aren’t the problem: NTs making broad assumptions about all autistic people are.

I've only ever seen this post in screen shots so im not sure who posted this originally on this fine ass site but i need to talk about it

Story time

As a young girl I as introduced to Star Wars by my uncle he loves Star Wars more than me and that saying something. He even LOVES the prequels... Which I admire him for.

Anyway I was brought up by my mum and dad on your traditional disney princess story i.e. Girl must find man to solve her problems and to be happy. Bless my mum she always tried to tell me that that I didnt have to do that but was like "whaaattt but cinderella had to find a prince so must I!" But heres the thing I never wanted to be the princess i wanted to be the one who did the saving but i felt like i couldnt because thats not what girls do.

Then!

Then I watch the original star wars trilogy for the first time my mind was blown (yeah yeah the bikini was a low point) BUT Here was a woman who was also a princess who was sassy could shoot a fucking gun and out talk most of the empire without trying. I found my first role model who i could truly relate to AND aspire to be like.

As i grew up misogyny became a thing i was acutely aware of (fucking high school bull shit) but i kept going back to my role model my princess and resisting the idea that i was a second class citizen just because I had boobs. I delved in the the interviews with Carrie Fisher and i grew to love her more than her character! She was a real person who told people to fuck off and did what she wanted. I love her so much

When she died it hit me hard, dispite never knowing or meeting me in person she had helped shaped me in to the woman I'm proud to be today. And now she's just not around anymore.

So when people say stuff about Star Wars in a negative way it hurts because it shaped a big part of who i am today. I'm just saying this so y'all know George Lucas did this by accident he didn't intend for Leia to be a bad ass woman Carrie Fisher acted her that way, so its not a perfect example of women in film. But sometimes you have to take what you can get. That is why star wars is my favourite films of all time forget the lightsabers and the cool bad guys in masks. It inspired an 8yr old me to love myself all because of one woman

Carrie Fisher you are an amazing woman and I love you and I'm sad you are gone

I will leave you with my favourite quote of hers that one day i will probably get a tattoo of

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it, eventually the confidence will follow"

Now you’ve read all my ramblings please enjoy this thing I made

The thing about ADHD is that the "lack of reward chemicals in your brain" doesn't just mean that you don't want to do any tasks that don't feel particularly yummy :(, it means that your brain will look at chores and tasks that need to be done like "doing this would be painful and tedious for absolutely nothing to gain from it, Do Not Do That." The same thing that your brain tells you about everything else that would feel really bad and hurt the entire time that you're dying. The part of your brain that stops you from doing the thing is the same part that keeps you from shoving your arm into a wood chipper.

With unmedicated, unmanaged ADHD, "I have to do this assignment or I fail and my life will be ruined and I die" feels like a SAW trap, every single time.

Autism Acceptance Month 2k20: Autistic Headcanons

↳ Allison Reynolds (The Breakfast Club)

“I don’t have to run away and live in the street. I can run away and I can go to the ocean, I can go to the country, I can go to the mountains.”

the beautiful thing about ADHD is it can take you down many paths. within minutes you might go from checking if there's any holidays soon to discovering a national holiday to raise awareness for a little known disease and then suddenly you're spending your morning down a wikipedia rabbithole and you're rapidly experiencing the joys of learning and connecting the pieces of the universe together and entering a higher state of enlightened being. or at least having fun.

the horrible thing about ADHD is all that's nothing but a useless distraction from your REAL purpose in life: being a capitalist drone