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Annabelle MacSeoin
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Happy autism awareness day! This blog is always safe for my neurodivergent froggy folks. Hope you all have a lovely day!
Please don't support Ty Beanie Babies anymore! They support Next For Autism and Autism Speaks!
They've deleted comments 3 times now that have been speaking up about it. There are still some left but this is making me very sad. I wanna get rid of my paw patrol beanie babys now :( Next for Autism is trying to completely get rid of autism and "find a cure." Our brains are different. There is no cure. Plus all the people that want a cure aren't autistic!! Nobody asked autistic people about what we thought.
I want to be happily autistic. I want to enjoy my special interests. I want to stim. I want to be happily autistic in peace.
(no dni banner bc i don't mind who interacts w this post!!)
This user is slowly realizing how their childhood was traumatic
ended up doing this on a school computer from the 1400s and didnt realise i spelt it wrong until i saved the file, ngl ive been chuckling a bit too hard at it tbh
AUTSIM.
Oh so you're autistic?
Great, what does everyone think your special interest is?
Nono, not what it actually is, what does everyone think you're hyperfixated on and gives you gifts for almost every year for your birthday and Christmas and all that shit?
So, I just been wanting to talk to someone, but I don't really wanna talk to people. Talking on the internet is easier.
So this is a random rant. I think I might be autistic and I been trying to find a therapist to talk to because "normal" never understand you. They always try to act like your crazy. Thank God I'm not weak minded, because if I were I would actually believe them.
Sometimes I wish the world was only neurodivergent people, because life would be easier. No one feel stupid or crazy, because people would understand you.
Sometimes I feel like neurotypical don't wanna understand you and denounce you as off or less than.
But I know I'm not less than.
Yall be easy
- M❤
there’s something that i wanted to point out regarding this awesome tweet:
this is incredibly common among characters who are commonly headcanoned as autistic but not confirmed to be canonically on the spectrum. writers often use people in their lives as inspiration for characters, sometimes while knowing that the person is on the spectrum, and sometimes while just thinking that person is ~quirky/weird. in fact, sometimes a writer might interact with a person who “acts alien”/”is like a robot” and use them as a model for an alien/robot character. wrongplanet is one of the biggest autistic forums for a reason; we often feel alienated from society and identify with alien/robot/etc. characters…who may even be based on us.
regardless of how it happens, the end result is pretty similar–a character with autistic traits whom autistic people can relate to and identify with. in this case, the writers confirmed their inspiration for entrapta. in other cases, the writers might dance around the subject or deny it because it wasn’t their intention, or, sadly, because they’re ableist.
i’ve seen people vehemently denying that a character might be autistic, yet loving that character for their autistic traits…which would be funny if it wasn’t so horrifying; people are incredibly ignorant about autistic people, and would rather hate all of us than accept that they might even like one of us. so, basically, to those of you who hate the idea of entrapta being autistic, i gotta ask, why? if it changes nothing about her character, and you like her for who she is including her autistic traits that autistic people have identified over and over, then what’s the problem?
autistic people have always been around (it’s theorized that changelings were based on autistic children, as one of many real-life examples), and autistic characters based on those autistic people have always been around, whether that was understood/acknowledged or not. autistic headcanons are awesome, and are not necessarily invalidated by word of god due to the degree of ignorance surrounding autism. also, autistic people are awesome.
anyway CANON AUTISTIC ENTRAPTA!!!
ppl rly do like 2 say that every disabled character in a queer relationship is child coded huh?
Autism vs ADHD
(You can’t fight me on this)
little different then what i usually post about but a bit pissed off and honestly just a rant
Alright, basically for context, I guess: Autism, ASD, ADHD, dyslexia, etc. (but autism is important for this rant) runs both sides in my family; we're all VERY neurodivergent. Though we're usually high-functioning and can mask well, it's still very visible. (like the magnet thing where neurodivergent people make friends with neurodivergent people because they're like drawn to them,, or something??? I like to call it 'your people finder')
The rant: In my life, I've been diagnosed with ADHD, and I am currently on medication, though something we've noticed is that I'm also showing signs of high-functioning autism. which is like, 'Oh cool, I guess I should get tested because, honestly, why haven't I before? I'm most likely going to get a positive result, and I think a diagnosis would help my 504 and shit.' So I went through the testing, which was honestly really… weird? I felt like I was being tested on only one end of the spectrum to see if I had a good reaction time, if I could read social cues, and if I could decipher figures of speech. Which was like alright, okay, I guess that's some signs that should be written down, important knowledge, I guess. So I get my results in,, waiting 3 weeks for this,, did 1000+ questions for this,, did 3 hours of testing for this,, to turn up as negative. I'm not upset I got negative. I'm not one to glorify autism or make up some shit to feel special. I'm upset because I've been looking through the diagnosis system, and the place I live has a mindset of 'you're only autistic if you flap your hands, can't pick up on how the other person is feeling, you're good at noticing patterns, etc.' or just that low-functioning autism is the only way of autism and that's not fucking okay??? I understand how autism has not been around for like a really long time (which is actually very interesting; I would recommend reading about Donald Triplett), and we really only have studies on male-bodied people (which is a whole thing about how autism is represented differently in different sexes), but it's actually hard to get an autism diagnosis. Like if you're male-bodied or female-bodied, and especially if you're an intersexed person. (Like, come on, dude, it's already hard enough for one sex to be severely undiagnosed, but two?? Really??) Though, I guess I give props for them noticing I have ADHD and saying I most likely have anxiety and a small chance of OCD.
Conclusion: I don't give a fuck if I'm not autistic or not; this diagnosis system needs to change. At least where I'm from; I'm not sure how it is in other places.
SORRY ABOUT THE LONG ASS RANT, and thanks for reading!! Please don't feel the need to respond or comfort to this, I'm just sharing my frustration.
Adding: I know self diagnosing (the one that's actually well educated not the tiktok shit where they spread misinformation so they can get attention) is common due to this, I just wish shit like this was more.. easy? Like easy to go though the process of getting an actual diagnosis, or even the chance to get one. Which, I am lucky to have that chance of at least getting tested, I admit.
experimenting ....
my mum bought me a new sketchbook yesterday so i drew carwash
#hi carwash!!! why is he ignoring me why won't you listen i hate you carwash youre just like everyone else
i love my boyfriend to absolute pieces he is the light in my life and i don’t know what i’d do without him. and he’s leaving to go back to his home town in a few days. so he’s staying the night at my flat, but i have had to move to the couch upstairs because he’s breathing so loud and he’s snoring and he’s a little sick which is making it all so so much worse. and i feel so awful because i want to be around him, but there’s only so many hours i can sleep with my fingers jammed into my ears, or clawing and my skin. it’s sad.