Autism Acceptance Month 2k20: Autistic Headcanons

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Autism Acceptance Month: Autistic Headcanons

↳ Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice)

“Well, I read through that Handbook for the Recently Deceased. It says live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself am strange and unusual.”

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Carrie Fisher hiding in the trash cans on the backlot of the Star Wars set, 1976.

Carrie Fisher inside a trash can while doing promotion for The Empire Strikes Back, 1980.

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!”

whitby abbey, where dracula arrived in england

The idea that being autistic is now “trendy” and a diagnosis can give you social clout is so laughably divorced from reality. I can assure you that beyond Extremely Online Niche Communities, autism is still incredibly stigmatized. You can lose custody battles over your children or be coerced into a conservatorship based on an autism diagnosis in America in 2024, “Autistic” is still very much used as an insult among edgy teens, and I’m seeing the r-slur have a bit of a resurgence. I, an autistic adult, am afraid to tell employers about my diagnosis lest my superiors treat me like a child or decide that I’m not a “culture fit” and fire me. There are still “treatment” centers that use electric shocks on their autistic charges, and autistic students die in “quiet rooms” (aka solitary for disabled kids) at schools or end up being murdered outright by their caregivers for being “too much”. In many scenarios, it is unpleasant or unsafe to be visibly autistic, and the idea that people are somehow gaining “clout” with their autism diagnoses is a gigantic slap in the face to the many autistic people who are being subjected to horrific ableism right now.

Neurodivergent alt kids joking about “Autistic Rizz” on The Clock App do not an accepting mainstream society make. Please go outside.