Hey, Here’s A Concept. What If We Stopped Saying “but Autistic People CAN Do All Those Things”

I genuinely love when I see someone explain something I couldn’t myself and do it so accurately. I used to stim all the time by spinning for hours or jumping but once you get to a certain age you become “weird” and allistics say its something you should’ve “grown out of by now”. I wish I could stim so unbridled like I did before I was self aware.

i think the general public is a little confused ab stimming tbh bc they think of it as a specific set of actions instead of like. an emotional process. like an allistic person and i could do the exact same gesture and only one of us would b stimming bc. allistic don't feel the surge of . like pleasure? release of tension? that comes with stimming. like you know what i mean. w/ me, especially as a child, a big stim of mine was jumping up and down. and i would do it for literally hours. thump thump thump oh that's just my kid she's upstairs jumping. and any time i would be reading a book or watching a tv show and a "good part" came on, or a part with a lot of tension, or a big reveal, i would feel overwhelmingly compelled to jump up and down and make noises and weird faces to "get the excitement out"

and like the only reason i'm not like that now and i make less weird faces and grunting noises and big movements is bc i got it shamed out of me and now i'm so used to masking it's hard for me to stim in the comfort of my own apartment without feeling like i'm being watched. but i still stim in other ways and i think what's often overlooked is stimming has a pretty intense emotional/mental component to it.

I love you easy to eat food, I love you subtitles, I love you accessible games, I love you auto-correct, I love you ibuprofen jell, I love you medication, I love you sleeping pills, I love you easy clothes, I love you noise cancelling headphones, I love you weighted blanket, I love you-

you do not have to be functional to be worthy of love and existence as an autistic person. if you need assistance, you are worthy. if you don’t have a job, you are worthy. if you are not social, you are worthy.

you exist. you are a person. you are inherently worthy of life and love

and if i became a pedro pascal fan account , what then ???

PEDRO PASCAL with Kaitlyn Denver, and Bella Ramsey The Last Of Us Season 2 | Entertainment Weekly

if i see one more SA post after blocking anything related to it, i’m going to cook everyone who does that into a god damn stew. i’m going to put on my witch hat and start cackling in such dismay.

me: i don’t want to see jellyfish so i will blacklist the tag #jellyfish

people with no common sense: je11yf1sh, je11¥fi5h, j*llyf*sh, je//ÿf!sh, j3ï||yf¡sh, gel lee fisk

result: cannot account for the sheer amount of possible ways to alter the word jellyfish

conclusion: i have to see jellyfish now.

Once again, tumblr is not tiktok, tag properly.

call me a terrible person but I will never not find the submarine jokes funny as hell + I agree with OP

feel so fucking awful for everyone whose livelihoods are affected by twitter tanking

motherfucker should've gone in the submarine

i feel so bad for little babies who can't drink red wine with cheese

Being inclusive to autistics as an autistic is recognising and accepting that we all have conflicting wants or needs.

You may hate bright lights but another autistic may love them.

You may hate being in crowds but another autistic might love that.

You may hate tags on your shirt but another autistic may actually like having tags on their shirt.

You may love bland foods but another autistic may love rich or extreme flavours.

You may love infodumping to people but it may be too overwhelming for another autistic.

A spectrum includes all ends of extremes. And all of it deserves to be accepted and accommodated for.