Autistic Hedgehog

I Want to Make Something Abundantly Clear

To any anons who want to waltz in here and try to tell me how to behave, how to think, how to feel, how to act when people oppress me with their words, their behavior, their very ideas:

You are not starting a conversation, you’re attempting to bully and gaslight me. And I will not stand forit.

If you think for a second that I will bow and fold because you call me “mean” for standing up for myself, you’ve got another think coming. If you think you can guilt me into walking on egg shells and being nice to my abusers by telling me to take the highroad, you are enormously misguided. 

And if you think–if you imagine for the smallest second–that I will let you bully, gaslight and guilt trip my followers, you’re going to find out just how prickly this particular hedgehog can be; That which does not kill me makes me meaner, and trust me, over the years, a lot of things have tried. 

I’ve dealt with plenty of bullies. I went through bully hell and came out the other side, and you don’t scare me. I know that intimidates you. The idea of marginalized people standing up for themselves terrifies you. And if you’re going to hang around my blog to sling around anon hate, I suggest you get used to terror. I will never, ever stop defending myself against you. Ever.

Why there’s been no Autistic Hedgehog this week

It’s pretty simple: Mama Hedgehog is having a really fucking bad week and can’t cope with anything.

There’s a number of things at play, including a flare up of knee pain that has me off my feet and bouncing off the walls (not literally, obviously, because then I’d be getting some actual freaking exercise rather than sitting on my butt all day). Hopefully next week will be better and I can deal again. 

(Also, I’m the only actual mod here and I don’t get submissions very often, so there’s no one else to handle things and very little to queue, so if I go down, the whole operation pretty much hits the dirt. That doesn’t help.)