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Oct 22
[“Katy Perry sang with an autistic girl? She has such a beautiful soul!” Yes, how arduous, singing with an autistic girl who knows how to sing. She puts Jesus to shame. Quick, guys, let’s canonize her.] Whoa, hey, look at that, allistic people, sarcasm! Real live, dripping-scorn-like-a-hot-cinnamon-roll-drips-icing sarcasm. Gosh, it’s almost like autistics are real people who deserve better than to be showcased on a TV show like those animals the ASPCA puts on display whenever they’re trying to find homes for them! It’s–it’s almost like we’re individuals or something! Like, you know, some of us are good at certain things and some of us aren’t, kind of like every other freakin’ person on the planet. ——— Okay, we’re now below the sarcasm line. Everything below this line is straight talk. So I’m sure by now a number of you have seen this whole Night of Too Many Allistics Stars thing and I know from looking at the tags that some of you have watched it. So send me your NoTMS related hedgehogs! Please? pretty please? No, seriously, I am straight up getting a little desperate here, trying to think up all these hedgehogs on my own. And anyway, I’m on the wrong side of the planet to even be able to watch NoTMS, so I need some help on this one. So really, please, if you have a bit of time, send me a hedgehog or two.

[“Katy Perry sang with an autistic girl? She has such a beautiful soul!”

Yes, how arduous, singing with an autistic girl who knows how to sing. She puts Jesus to shame. Quick, guys, let’s canonize her.]

Whoa, hey, look at that, allistic people, sarcasm! Real live, dripping-scorn-like-a-hot-cinnamon-roll-drips-icing sarcasm. Gosh, it’s almost like autistics are real people who deserve better than to be showcased on a TV show like those animals the ASPCA puts on display whenever they’re trying to find homes for them! It’s–it’s almost like we’re individuals or something! Like, you know, some of us are good at certain things and some of us aren’t, kind of like every other freakin’ person on the planet.

———

Okay, we’re now below the sarcasm line. Everything below this line is straight talk.

So I’m sure by now a number of you have seen this whole Night of Too Many Allistics Stars thing and I know from looking at the tags that some of you have watched it. So send me your NoTMS related hedgehogs! Please?

pretty please?

No, seriously, I am straight up getting a little desperate here, trying to think up all these hedgehogs on my own. And anyway, I’m on the wrong side of the planet to even be able to watch NoTMS, so I need some help on this one. So really, please, if you have a bit of time, send me a hedgehog or two.

Posted 3 years ago

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Oct 16
[Ill-informed allistic who loves Autism $peaks? There’s an app for that!] Yes, I am totally serious.  I even went on iTunes to see for myself, and sure enough, it’s there. What would you even do with such an app? Track how much money Autism $peaks is wasting? Get the latest updates on Jenny McCarthy’s bullshit “cures”? Maybe they have something that keeps track of how many autistic people are on their staff. I mean, with a number that low, you wouldn’t hardly have to use any resources at all!  (On iTunes there was also a reggae song entitled Autism Speaks. I have no idea if it’s associated with the organization–it does use their colors–but I listen to the preview and uh…I’m just going to try to pretend that never happened.)

[Ill-informed allistic who loves Autism $peaks?

There’s an app for that!]

Yes, I am totally serious. 

I even went on iTunes to see for myself, and sure enough, it’s there. What would you even do with such an app? Track how much money Autism $peaks is wasting?

Get the latest updates on Jenny McCarthy’s bullshit “cures”?

Maybe they have something that keeps track of how many autistic people are on their staff. I mean, with a number that low, you wouldn’t hardly have to use any resources at all! 

(On iTunes there was also a reggae song entitled Autism Speaks. I have no idea if it’s associated with the organization–it does use their colors–but I listen to the preview and uh…I’m just going to try to pretend that never happened.)

Posted 3 years ago

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Oct 13
[“Autistic people don’t like my offensive autism joke? You r****ds!” Wait, which one of us lacks empathy again?] Some days I feel like a broken record, but honestly, it needs to be said. Especially since I was the one who censored the r-word; not the asshole in question. I keep seeing shit like this pop up in the autism tag and somehow, despite us being the ones without empathy, other people never seem to get that this stuff hurts. 

[“Autistic people don’t like my offensive autism joke? You r****ds!”

Wait, which one of us lacks empathy again?]

Some days I feel like a broken record, but honestly, it needs to be said. Especially since I was the one who censored the r-word; not the asshole in question. I keep seeing shit like this pop up in the autism tag and somehow, despite us being the ones without empathy, other people never seem to get that this stuff hurts. 

Posted 3 years ago

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Oct 3
[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. — 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:

[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.

—

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:

Posted 3 years ago

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Oct 2

onlylolgifs:

Cat uses a hedgehog as a brush

Wow, this is pretty much exactly what it looks like when my family members try to hug me.

“Oh, no, no, not affection, anything but that!”

“Oh dear god, maybe if I just stay really, really still they’ll get the hint and go away.”

“Is it over yet? Please tell me it’s over. Why isn’t it over? Is it supposed to take this long?”

Reblogged 3 years ago from minitotoroll

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Oct 1

Advice Needed

Okay, I posted this like this because, hedgehogs, I need your help.

It’s all right, Anon. I’m okay, and I can tell you’re genuinely upset by this and really trying to learn; if you weren’t, a number of the things I said in my last response simply would have made you angry.

I don’t know you or your situation, but it sounds to me like you have reasons far beyond this kid being autistic for how you feel. You should never let anyone–yourself included–simply dismiss or devalue how you feel. It sounds as if he’s really not listening to you or respecting you, and that’s simply not okay, autism or no autism. 

This is a tricky situation and I’m really unsure what to tell you. I don’t want to be unfair to either of you, because his rights don’t trump yours. He’s not entitled to hang all over you in ways that make you feel uncomfortable or even unsafe simply because he’s autistic. And this doesn’t really sound like just some phobia of autistic people on your part. Clearly you’re concerned that’s what it is, and from certain angles it can look that way, but there’s a few things that read to me as red flags, and I’m worried about both of you. 

Fellow hedgehogs, please help us out. Do you think there’s anything Anon can say that will get their feelings through to this boy? Should Anon even make the attempt at this point? Does anyone know of someone who might have some experience mediating in this sort of situation? Any advice or suggestions at all would be much appreciated. We all have varying kinds of experiences, and our autism expresses itself in different ways at times, so maybe someone will have an insight that I’m lacking. 

Posted 3 years ago

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Sep 30

Asperger’s Syndrome Primer: How it Feels in My Head - A Guide for the Terminally Allistic

[Allistic Perception: Socially awkward people just use it as an excuse to be lazy.

Autistic Perception: OH DEAR GOD WHAT IS THAT SOUND MAKE IT STOP need to stim now Oh YUCK texture bleh bus full of people CAN’T BREATHE hey check out everything I know about–ooo shiny is that person smiling at me is it a real smile or a smile-frown is a smrown?]

Because I just had to wake up to the continuation of this nonsense this morning. 

Apparently some allistics simply can’t resist the belief that they know so much more about what it means to be autistic than actual autistic people. Of course, those of us who are autistic know that allistics would be hard-pressed to deal with the constant barrage of sensory perceptions, distractions, confusion, anxiety and fears we face on a daily basis.

So here, allistics, is a glimpse inside the general process of my brain. It doesn’t really slow down or shut up pretty much ever, and this is actually a pretty tame example, but baby steps. Clearly this lesson needs to be approached in small, bite-sized pieces of information for those of you who have yet to dislodge your heads from your asses. 

(Hedgehogs, feel free to send your own examples. An AS diagnosis is not necessary–we’re all autistic here anyway, regardless. In fact, please send your own examples.)

Posted 3 years ago

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Sep 27

[Autism?

That means ‘less intelligent than neurotypicals’, right?]

There are way too many people out there who think that 'Autism’ is a synonym for 'stupid’.

mod note: I think there’s a huge problem with the way intelligence is viewed in society. We have such a narrow definition of what makes people smart. My father was a brilliant man, but not in any conventional kind of way. He could fix anything (except the Nintendo, but that was honest-to-god the only thing), jury-rig anything, and he had this talent that allowed him to hang all the pictures in a new house first, then put the furniture in and have it all look right.

People love to use the Einstein quote: “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” But for people like us, for people like my father, the problem isn’t being a fish judged by its ability to climb a tree.

The problem is being a fish that rigged a pulley system so it could haul itself up into the tree by its damn fins and that’s still not good enough for other people, because it’s not the way “normal” people do it. It’s not the way average, easily measurable intelligence would do it. Thus anything that doesn’t match the status quo gets dubbed “stupid”. In truth, very few people are anything like being stupid; they’re just different.

I think where I’m going with this is: Ignore the people who equate autism and stupidity. Their definition of intelligence is far too narrow and their definition of stupidity is far, far too wide. 

Posted 3 years ago

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Sep 26
[“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? 

[“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? 

Posted 3 years ago

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Sep 26
[“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.)

[“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.)

Posted 3 years ago

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