Autistic Hedgehog

[If you get to smile

I get to flap]

Mod note: Anonymous creation. 

And yeah, allistics have a tendency to be very caught up in the “right” way to express emotions. Some people laugh or smile when they’re happy. Some people flap or sway. There’s nothing wrong with any of those.

(Er…or is swaying just a me thing? I don’t think I’ve ever seen another autistic person who sways when they feel good. Anyone?)

[“Don’t touch me”

Means don’t fucking touch me!]

Recently I posted an anon Hedgehog that said “Don’t touch me” doesn’t mean I hate you. And this is very much the truth for autistic people.

But also, lately I’ve seen far too many autistics on tumblr talking about how when they tell people they don’t like to be touched, people do it anyway. Sometimes people even do it more. That is so fucked up, I made this Hedgehog.

Touching people without their permission is bad enough. Purposefully touching people even more when they’ve explicitly stated they don’t like it is positively despicable. Do not be that person. 

Also, a screencap of something I found in Google’s cache of the autism tag.

Mod note: For anyone who wasn’t here at the time and is wondering, Hatilda is the person who I referenced in a couple of my October 5th Hedgehogs.

Although this isn’t the rant in question, this is a good example of the way she talks. I’d rather not rehash her nonsense too deeply, because most of it was hurtful and triggering, but I will say this: Take this rant, turn it up to 12, and squeeze in as much ableism as you possibly can, and you have some idea of what she was on about. And yes, she did say autistics are incapable of recognizing others as sentient beings in said now deleted rant. I didn’t pull that particular Hedgehog out of thin air.