Autistic Hedgehog

I saw your "ohmigod my sibling has autism!" reblog from Autistic Kitten, and as the parent of a diagnosed autistic and child who might also be somewhere on the spectrum, I agree 100% with that. And, well, your entire blog. It's blogs like these that teach me the most about autism, more than I could ever get from a book or a doctor, because I'm learning from autistics themselves. :)

isomer

I’ve actually seen a lot of your posts to Autistic Kitten and it’s so nice to see a parent doing it right. I just wish there were more parents and family members like you. It makes such a huge difference when people get it.

Posted 3 years ago

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Snarky, abrasive, sarcastic autism memes? This is something I can get behind. Also, y u no fanmail button?

skorpychan

I aim to ~~misbehave~~ please. :)

As to the fan mail button…I’m not sure. I think it might be because this is a secondary blog. I can’t find anything in the settings to change it, so that’s my best guess.

Posted 3 years ago

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I love memes like this despite being allistic. It helps me to better understand those with autism and feel more prepared to treat them with the respect they deserve. I'm sick of people treating people with autism like side-shows and as if they are unintelligent. I hope I never fall into that bullshit mindset. Thank you for making this!

squ33ble

Posted 3 years ago

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So I'm self-diagnosed, and I don't live in a place where it would even be possible to get diagnosed right now. Are self-diagnosed people often accepted into the autism community? Finding just an online community was so exciting for me, but being self-diagnosed has made me too afraid to really enter it.

Anonymous

I can’t speak for other places, but the community here on tumblr is very accepting of self-diagnosis.

Anyone else know of any other good places?

Posted 3 years ago

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[“Ohmigod my sibling has autism! Why, cruel world, why!? They are so beautiful and they have a beautiful soul and they’re like, so beautiful! How could life do this to me? Whatever will I do now!?”

Here’s a suggestion: Shut up, get over yourself, and stop making this about you]

I know I can’t be the only person who’s getting tired of these. Even when someone means well, it gives me such a headache. Look, allistic people: There are other things you can do than just flapping around like chickens with your heads cut off. Panicking and making assumptions about what this means for your autistic sibling/child/etc. is bad enough.

Panicking and making assumptions about what this means for you is just kind of insensitive.

I can remember a few times when parents of autistic children contacted me on some website or another, wondering things about autism. Among other things, I would usually tell them that autistic children can learn, that all is not lost and their kids can probably live good lives. I never heard back from any of them, not even a thank you for my time taken responding.

It’s like people don’t want to hear that all is not lost. Like they want to believe it’s all doom and gloom, so they can recline back on their drama couches, staple their hands to their foreheads, and whine about how cruel life is. Allistics, get your butts off the drama couch and educate yourselves. You can even start with the askanautistic tag right here on tumblr if you want some real insight into us.

Posted 3 years ago

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Posted 3 years ago

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Posted 3 years ago

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I have enough symptoms that I have been placed on the edge of the autism spectrum, yet I also have had many troubles with being far too empathic for my own good. Is it possible to be on the autism spectrum and also be empathic?

Anonymous

Not only is it possible, but a relatively recent (and, to my dismay, considered “radical”) hypothesis is that autistic people feel too much empathy. This fits with my own experiences, and I’ve seen a number of autistics on tumblr say the same.

The thing is, this hypothesis states that the problem isn’t lacking emotions, but feeling them too acutely and struggling to process them. As well, we just don’t necessarily process them in a way that allistic people recognize.

The two attributes combine to cause a double problem: First, that we tend to shut down when emotions get too strong, or detach ourselves from the situation, thus making it look like we don’t have emotions or empathy; and second, we internalize the allistic idea of empathy to such an extent that it’s easy even for us to assume we don’t have it.

It’s true, autistic people have empathy to varying degrees, but we do tend to have it. We may not have it in all the situations allistics think we should, we may not know how to show it, or even how to feel it in a way that we understand what we’re feeling. But there is absolutely nothing to stop someone on the autism spectrum from being empathetic and it’s my sincerest wish to see the notion that autistic people have no empathy die a very swift and brutal death, very soon.

Posted 3 years ago

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[Autism. Related tags: actuallyautistic, night of too many stars, katy perry

Please just GTFO]

Seriously, I’ve had enough of this. The tags listed as relating to autism should have something, somehow, to do with autism, even if its a different but similar diagnosis. Katy Perry doesn’t have jack all to do with autism and I do not give half a flying rat’s ass that she sang with that autistic girl.

You know what’s happening here? A bunch of allistic people are flooding the autism tag with this video, and many of them are accompanying it with insulting remarks, talking about how if you don’t cry over it you don’t have a soul. I haven’t watched Night of Too Many Stars, but what I do know is this: It’s apparently not teaching anyone that just because autistic people don’t always express their emotions the way allistic people do, it doesn’t mean we don’t have them.

So these people are posting this video alongside remarks that are directly insulting and even triggering to actually autistic people. And then they’re patting themselves on the back like they’re so damn great for watching it.

So yeah, NoTMS people, GTFO of the autism tag. This is not the kind of “awareness” autism needs.

Posted 3 years ago

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