Autistic Hedgehog

[Congratulations on being the first allistic person

I find more disgusting than Jenny McCarthy]

TRIGGER WARNING: Ableism, eugenics, overall jaw-dropping D-colon fuckery.

In regards to this. Seriously guys, I am NOT kidding with that trigger warning, it is bad, bad, bad. 

I just can’t even right now with this shit.

[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.)

[I love how much

We understand each other]

Seriously. Seeing how many people liked and/or reblogged my last post made me feel a lot better.

Sometimes it’s frustrating with autism (or similar problems), because we have some odd little quirks, and it’s hard to find people in everyday life who can relate to most of them. That’s one of the things I’ve loved about tumblr (even though I haven’t been here long) and especially about these memes. I suddenly found a whole bunch of people who understand exactly how I feel. 

So here is a little hedgehog chilling with some cacti, to show my appreciation.  

[Having bad day

Consider quitting all social websites]

Is it just me? Whenever I’m having a bad day or feel particularly crappy for some reason, I get this way. It’s like my brain forgets any success I’ve had on a given site and just carries on about how much I’m ignored and people don’t talk to me and omg I don’t want to cope with this shit anyway–that kind of thing. 

I generally get over it (although there are a few sites where I genuinely have not had enough success to stay) but it’s like whenever I’m feeling down, I want to quit everything. When I feel good I don’t mind the effort, but when I feel like crap, even thinking about the effort required makes me want to curl up and hide. 

Why does my brain never shut up? :(

[T-shirts to raise money for Autism Speaks?

I’d rather be naked]

I know, I know, I should probably stay out of the autism tag. It’s rife with idiot college kids doing shit like making T-shirts to raise money for A$. But on the bright (?) side, it’s pretty good fodder for memes.

P.S. Start sending me your ideas for anti-Autism Speaks t-shirts. I have a plan to take over the world.