Autistic Hedgehog

autisticallythor:

autistichedgehog:

[“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. 

I DO NOT MEAN TO MOCK MY FELLOW ALLIES

BUT THIS SMALL BARBED RODENT SPEAKS THE TRUTH

WE ALLIES MUST REMEMBER THAT ALTHOUGH OUR OWN EMOTIONS ARE VALID: TRULY ALLYSHIP IS AIDING AND CONSIDERING OTHERS FIRST, NOT OURSELVES. LET US NEVER FORGET THIS!

Pssst. Thor? Uh, no offense big guy, loved you to bits in the movies, but I’m an Erinaceomorph, not a rodent. I’m about as closely related to your average rodent as an elephant is to a dog. Very important to know if I’m ever over for dinner. Rodents are very opportunistic eaters; I’m an insectivore. 

(Sorry, couldn’t help myself. XD And “experts” say autistic folks have no sense of humor.)

[The problem with being an Autistic Hedgehog

Is that we can turn our quills on ourselves]

And it has really, really been that kind of week. 

[Allistic writes a story about autistics that show no emotion

I’m showing my annoyance]

Mod note: Anon creation

[Wiki article on autism stigmatizes and pathologizes

Identified as one of the best articles produced by the community]

Mod note: Anon creation.

You know, just in case you somehow hadn’t gathered a large enough list of reasons to actually kinda hate Wikipedia.

P.S. Wiki is where I first learned about Simon Baron-Cohen and his “extreme male brain” bullshit. They write that shit up as legit. Barf. 

[Allistic thinks autistics don’t like porn

I think allistics fail basic common sense]

Mod note: Anon creation.

They fail something all right. Acknowledging that autistics can enjoy porn would require allistics to acknowledge that we are, first of all, people and that we can, second of all, want and enjoy sex. It requires them to have an image of autism that isn’t just unemotional and eternally childlike, but acknowledges that we are grownups making grownup decisions and having grownup relationships (or not, if that’s what floats a particular autistic’s boat). Many allistics just can’t or don’t want to see that. 

[Get diagnosed Aspergers after parents read an article about it somewhere

Parents still refuse to listen when you say you just can’t handle something]

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Kinda reminds me of my mom. :(

[Has an anxiety disorder coupled with autism and cannot get a job. No choice but to go on disability.

Is labeled a lazy, deadbeat.]

Mod note: Anon creation.