Autistic Hedgehog

[Allistic person being even bigger asshole than usual

Goes into full on porcupine mode]

Because sometimes I am done being cute but kinda spiky. Sometimes it is all painful spikes all the time. Hedgehogs only get spiky when you irritate them. Porcupines would hate you to death if they could.

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Just to add, I have questions in the inbox to answer, and I will get to them. Technically I should have my Chrome closed and not even be looking at anything right now, because I’m supposed to be finishing up my current manuscript. That’s why it’s been quiet and why I haven’t gotten my responses done; I'm supposed to be working. 

The last couple of years there has been this whole issue with my ADHD and living situation and medication and–well, I don’t want to bore you with the details. Suffice it to say that work has been taking me way longer than it ever should, and now that I’m almost at the end I need to behave myself and get my work done first. I’ll go back to attempting to do that, and then I’ll get the inbox cleared up, I promise.

And I will try not to get too overwhelmed in the meantime. D:

[“Autists choose to be sociopathic.”

Better than choosing to be an ignorant dipshit]

Really. Trigger warning on that one thanks to ignorant trollface.

You know what I really never get about allistics? They dismiss autistic people as sociopathic or jerks or unemotional, without ever once realizing how much that hurts us. But we’re the ones who lack empathy? 

[“If you remove the ’re’ then ‘tard’ isn’t offensive anymore!”

So does removing the 'bas’ make 'go fuck yourself right off a cliff, you ignorant bastard’ less offensive too?]

Somehow, I doubt the answer would be 'yes’.

TRIGGER WARNING FOR ABLEISM LIKE WHOA: This site…This is so unspeakably vile. Here I am, supposed to be in bed, trying to get myself to relax because medication + other medication + overactive adrenaline = buzzing brain, and then I see this in my feed. 

This is why we want you to STFU, allistic people. Because this person–this person who works with these children every day–sees nothing wrong with calling them 'tards’ and ridiculing them on the internet. And I don’t give a flying spiky fuck what their FAQs try to claim, anyone who thinks lumping all children in special classes (some of whom they straight up admit only have behavioral problems) as 'tards’ is in any way acceptable is an ableist rat bastard.

This is what we deal with all the time. This is how the people who are supposed to care for us and help us treat us. Like a big fucking joke. Like we’re not worth trying to understand, we’re just stressful horror shows that you need to laugh at to feel better. This is not an acceptable way to treat human beings. Period.

And really, where do they get off calling other people tards when they try to explain a word from an entomological perspective. Man, but that bugs me.

(I know, I know, I shouldn’t pun, but it’s late and I’m angry and wired and ohhhh–I need to go try to calm down.)

[Allistic person says verbal autistics don’t have “real” autism

Wishes non-verbal allistics were a thing]

In other words, allistic people, STFU. Just because you have a child/sibling/cousin/uncle/whatever with autism does not make you an expert. And don’t make me have to tell you where you can stick this “real” autism nonsense.