Autistic Hedgehog
RSSLol nobody thinks YOU are nice.
Anonymous
Random anon hate in my inbox is random. Also boring. Seriously, haters, that’s the best you’ve got? You’re so far out of your league, it’s embarrassing.
I'm glad to hear that you're okay with allistic people following your blog. I've been following for a while because my fiance is autistic. While I pretty much understand how it works for him at this point--not perfectly, but we've known each other for a really long time--I do want to know more about autism in general, especially because I plan to have kids with this man, and they may very well be autistic. Following blogs like this is one of the ways that I try to learn about autism in general.
Anonymous
Do you know of any autistic people who do vlogs? I've tried searching on Youtube, but I've only ever found videos done by parents of autistics, not autistics themselves.
Anonymous
I’m not really a Vlog watching kind of hedgehog, but I did do a little Googling and came up with Arman Khodaei. Now I don’t know anything about him, but Googling on him doesn’t reveal anything immediately negative and it sounds like he’s got his head on straight, but my followers may know differently.
If anyone else knows of vlogging autistics, let me know.
I have an assessment for Autism on the 30th and I'm extremely nervous. Any advice? :/
Anonymous
I myself had my assessment when I was only nine, so I don’t remember much about how it works, I’m afraid. I know some of my followers have had assessments much more recently than I have, though. Anyone got some advice for our fellow hedgehog to help them on their way?
![[Defeat Autism Now!
Relax! I’m not a boss monster in a JRPG!]
But if I was, I’d be load-bearing, and you’d have 30 seconds to escape the extremely large, labyrinthine building you found me at the center of.
Seriously, of all the autism groups that teamed up to form Autism $peaks, Defeat Autism Now! has always been the one with the name that creeps me out the most. Not cure, not treat, defeat, as if autism is some hulking boss monster in a JRPG (Japanese role-playing game, for those of you not in the know). It’s spine-shivering hyperbole of Orwellian proportions.
The implications terrify me. The idea that who I am, that something integral to my very personality, is a thing that needs defeating, is staggering. Autism is not a disease. Despite the ableist fucks who compare it to cancer, AIDS and cystic fibrosis, it’s not an illness; it’s simply a difference. The idea that differences need to be erased and defeated…that is the nightmarish rhetoric from which the most horrific dystopias are born. And right now, entire groups of people are out there pushing for one.
Much scarier than any boss monster I ever faced down.](http://40.media.tumblr.com/7fb5cfd5031c16cb1beb38f4c5dc1a31/tumblr_ml7g4kLKYX1rfhms3o1_400.jpg)
[Defeat Autism Now!
Relax! I’m not a boss monster in a JRPG!]
But if I was, I’d be load-bearing, and you’d have 30 seconds to escape the extremely large, labyrinthine building you found me at the center of.
Seriously, of all the autism groups that teamed up to form Autism $peaks, Defeat Autism Now! has always been the one with the name that creeps me out the most. Not cure, not treat, defeat, as if autism is some hulking boss monster in a JRPG (Japanese role-playing game, for those of you not in the know). It’s spine-shivering hyperbole of Orwellian proportions.
The implications terrify me. The idea that who I am, that something integral to my very personality, is a thing that needs defeating, is staggering. Autism is not a disease. Despite the ableist fucks who compare it to cancer, AIDS and cystic fibrosis, it’s not an illness; it’s simply a difference. The idea that differences need to be erased and defeated…that is the nightmarish rhetoric from which the most horrific dystopias are born. And right now, entire groups of people are out there pushing for one.
Much scarier than any boss monster I ever faced down.
![[“Autistics are the nicest people you’ll ever meet because they don’t know how to hate people.”
Yes, because we’re actually made out of magical hate-proof fairy dust instead of water, electricity and skin cells like everyone else.]
Could we just…stop with this kind of nonsense, please? Autistic people are people. Like any other people, we can (and do) learn hate, and we learn all kinds of hate. Okay? It really is just that simple. Occam’s Razor: Autistic people are people and people can hate so autistic people can hate.
There we go. We can stop this silliness now.](http://41.media.tumblr.com/fa1030bbbe0d8f8ba4dbe100b64ab32f/tumblr_ml5gouBZA31rfhms3o1_400.jpg)
[“Autistics are the nicest people you’ll ever meet because they don’t know how to hate people.”
Yes, because we’re actually made out of magical hate-proof fairy dust instead of water, electricity and skin cells like everyone else.]
Could we just…stop with this kind of nonsense, please? Autistic people are people. Like any other people, we can (and do) learn hate, and we learn all kinds of hate. Okay? It really is just that simple. Occam’s Razor: Autistic people are people and people can hate so autistic people can hate.
There we go. We can stop this silliness now.
It sounds unrealistic
Anonymous
What sounds unrealistic? My novel? Considering I went into practically no detail at all, I’m not sure what is supposed to sound unrealistic about it. Perhaps you could be a bit more, you know, specific.
I'm so mad. As I was driving home this morning, I saw a van that had written all over it, in blue paint, Autism Speaks propaganda and stuff about autism awareness month, and getting "justice" for their 6-year-old son. The buzzwords they used made it obvious that these people drank the friggin' kool aid. I felt like I got a momentary glimpse at someone allowing their own son's future to be compromised in the name of self-martyrhood. I wish I could have helped the kid somehow.
…justice!?
What even…justice!? Justice from what? How? I just…I do not get allistic people sometimes, I really don’t.
I don’t blame you for being mad. And I understand wanting to help their kid. Though frankly, I admire your self-restraint. I’m not sure I’d have been able to resist the urge to get out of my car and take my keys to the sides of the Eugenicsmobile. Maybe find something sufficiently sharp to take out the tires.
I also appreciated the post about how you communicate, being a word-y autistic
Word-powered autistics, unite!
(Funny how we’re supposed to be so crap at communication and yet so many of us love communication via writing. It’s almost like the “experts” don’t know what they’re talking about. Again.)
Your answer to the person who thought you couldn't be autistic because you can write was beautiful. I'm the same way--writing is how I communicate, and it is my outlet, because although I can and do speak, I have a hard time regulating my tone and pronouncing even simple words correctly and not mangling sentences. It's also hard for me to process other people talking. So, I write, and can control what I say. Anyway just wanted to let you know you're awesome <3
Anonymous
Aww, y'all are so awesome. I honestly don’t know how to respond to all the support, I’m just so overwhelmed (in a good way!) by how much y'all get it, you know?
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