I don't appreciate the way Sir Elton John is leering down at me from up on high while I'm eating my pho

am i too late to the "Actually Autistic" train? i thought about making a post... maybe i did during awareness month as a shitpost or somethin but hey

i'm autistic. i was diagnosed at age 7 and growing up with it has been both very interesting and incredibly stressful, who'da thought! still, i'd like in this post to recognise my privilege as someone who is cared for by their parents; i understand to some people, especially nonverbal folks, that those conditions may not be their lived experience, and that my position is as far as i know somewhat rare.

autism is a complex and (oftentimes for me) debilitating disorder, and i think more people should not only be aware of autism, but the struggles folks with autism go through as not only people, but a class of people - organisations like Autism Speaks tell parents that autism will destroy their lives and steal their children from their life dreams, and compares the disorder to chronic and fatal diseases like cancer and AIDS. legislators influenced by this sort of hateful advocacy continue to strangle legal protections for people with autism while cruel pseudoscientific "treatments" like electroshock therapy that traumatise children and adults for life continue to be performed. nonverbal people continue to be neglected and ignored because people don't know how to understand them, hate groups like AS telling them time and time again that they just can't be understood, that it's not worth the trouble.

but it is worth it, because these things have to end - which is why autistic self-advocacy, things like Actually Autistic and the neurodivergent movement as a whole, is so important to me!

i hope this brief lil post has been a little illuminating. i'd link a charity but i'm not aware of any as i don't generally get involved with activism - if you know one, feel free to link it in the comments! thank you very much for reading, and as a last note...

if people believe nonverbal folks don't have a voice, it's because they aren't listening

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The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will, one day, venture to the stars.

- Carl Sagan

I hope that as a Dwight main on Dead by Daylight people will automatically assume I'm clumsy and pity me because it's 100% accurate. Sometimes I do good but I'm pretty sure I was just possessed in those moments.

Mad that Diary of a Wimpy Kid is popular only because I can't remember the name of one of my favorite books/idk where it is and it is also written as a diary of the main character. 😭

It was this black and white book that looked like a journal on the outsidebbut was actually hard cover. And I can't fully remember the story but I remember there being something weird about their town and also them emailing their friend and "taping" print outs of the emails in the diary that the character would reference to. 🥲

WAIT NEVERMIND IT WAS IN MY BOOK PILE IT'S CALLED SKELETON CREEK RYAN'S JOURNAL FOR ANYONE CURIOUS