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?)

Posted 3 years ago

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[“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.

Posted 3 years ago

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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.

Posted 3 years ago

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Or maybe one of these

http://purplewowies.tumblr.com/post/32936049220/fuck-people-who-think-that-disabled-kids-are

I know this is the one that sparked it all. Still trying to see if I can find the actual post. Did she rant after an ask? Or in her own little post?

Mod note: That would be the person in question, yes (the one from the October 5th Hedgehogs). And she had several rants after that.

Posted 3 years ago

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So you made a hedgehog on October 5th with regards to a post elsewhere being genuinely horrid, I feel like raging at something and when I clicked the link, the post had been removed. Could you perhaps provide a mirror, I feel like having something to yell at and it seems like whatever it was would make an exceptional target.

slippy-the-eight-legged-horse

I’m actually not sure if I can provide a mirror. Anyone remember the oh-so-charming Hatilda and her disgusting rant against autistic people? Anyone have a screen cap or anything? She appears to have taken the post down.

Not that I would recommend actually reading the thing.

Posted 3 years ago

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A question for you or any other neuroatypical who reads this site: have you ever become so overloaded that your motor and speech abilities totally disappeared or became uncontrollable? At first the doctors thought I was catatonic and had thought disorder because of this, but now apparently it's just my autism. But I've never heard of this happening to any other autists, except the ones who got locked in the asylums back in the fifties. Maybe I'm just a throwback to the middle of last century...

nonhumanperson-deactivated20121

Well, I do occasionally get so overwhelmed that I can’t speak. It happened recently, too.

Last week I had to go for blood work. I loathe needles; they terrify me, due to some trauma I don’t even remember. It’s gotten worse as I got older, especially since I moved to Sweden, since for some reason people here have a damn hard time finding my veins. One of the last few times I went, they ended up with three people crowding me trying to find a vein. They had to stick me three or four times in several different spots, and one of them refused to listen when we said they couldn’t take blood from my wrist (I bruise badly) and caught the spot where my RSD is.

This time went very smoothly, but even so, by the time it was done I couldn’t speak for a little while. I knew what I wanted to say, but the words simply wouldn’t come out. All I managed for a while was a few little squeaks.

So these sorts of things can and do happen to us, I think. Anyone else experience these kinds of things?

Posted 3 years ago

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[If I have a meltdown

Don’t come near me]

Mod note: Anonymous creation.

Step awaaaaay from the hedgehog, people, step away from the hedgehog. Honestly, this is pretty good advice. I think some autistics like comfort during a meltdown, but as a rule of thumb this works best.

Posted 3 years ago

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