I would rather let a “special snowflake” into the autistic community than exclude an autistic that needs support and cannot get a clinical diagnosis.
I would rather validate ten “special snowflakes” than invalidate one autistic who needs support and cannot get a clinical diagnosis.
I would rather welcome a hundred “special snowflakes” without question than force an autistic to disclose their entire life to me just to get the support they need when they cannot get a clinical diagnosis.
I would rather help those that don’t need help, than deny help to those that need it.
abled people love the idea of cripple punk until you tell them it’s about rejecting ableist values not adorable little inspirational gimps who like to dress punk just like real people do
Every time I see a ‘modern au’ ft a character that has some sort of limb replacement like a metal arm or w/e and the ‘cool au version’ of it is a sleeve tattoo I literally want to reach through the screen and slap some sense into whoever posted it
They got a prosthetic in canon they gonna get a prosthetic in the au!!!! Because, I know this is a little far-fetched, but people who need prosthetics actually exist!!! In real life?! What a coincidence?!
Also you want cool prosthetics??? They totally exist
Want your character to have a cool prosthetic in the modern day?
steampunk? check
#aesthetic? Floral?
avant garde?
cyberpunk?
there are no excuses for erasing canonical disabilities
can we please get some sort of mental health education for parents i cant believe how many are in denial of their child’s condition
what able bodied people think being undiagnosed is like: faking your health issue, not wanting to see a doctor because they’ll tell you what you don’t want to hear/that you don’t have that illness
what it’s actually like: after seeing nine specialists between 1997 and now the best answer you’ve gotten was “clearly there’s something wrong here but idfk what lmao”
“have you tried weed to fix your mental illness” is just the libertarian version of “have you tried yoga”
what autigender isn’t: a label used by non-autistic people, a label used by cis people, a label made up for attention, a label that causes harm to autistic people, a label that causes harm to trans people
what autigender is: a label used by a trans/nonbinary autistic person whose experience is that being autistic so deeply affects their understanding of their own gender that it’s hard or impossible to describe their gender as anything other than “autistic,” or to otherwise see their gender as separate from their autism
so i might have an angry rant going but.. i want you all to start being more intersectional with things.. because this isn’t good enough.
when you are marginalised in many ways, there will be overlaps of traits, and you will have a specific experience from being multiply marginalised.
very often this will be labelled as intersecting marginalised identities… that is literally what intersectionality means – you recognise that people who are marginalised in multiple ways have a specific unique experience from that.
i’m autistic, and i’m queer. this shapes me and makes my experience among autistic and queer people differently from the straight and allistic people in the respective communities.
additionally, a huge part of autism is not grasping social constructs, and struggling to conform to social and cultural things.. a lot of conceptions of straightness is artificial and cultural.
this means that a large part of my perception of straight society will be impacted by me being autistic. i struggle to relate to others’ experiences, and i find a lot to be performative… and you know, as a queer person – i find it beneficial to think of it this way too.
and i literaly cannot just say that these things are because i’m one of the things.. i’m not autistic sometimes, queer other times.. i’m always autistic and queer.
i have an intersecting marginalised experience.
shitting on people who literally label this intersecting experience, is being dismissive of and not recognising properly that people can be marginalised in multiple ways, and it is not intersectional activism.
so please stop.. and perhaps recognise that reality isn’t always your black-and-white social theories on what lgbt+ is and what disability is.. and perhaps don’t throw people under the bus who already have a hard time fitting into multiple communities.
i see this shit mostly coming from allistic lgbt+ people, and i just want you all to know this is not ok.. and you all are making lgbt+ spaces unsafe and unwelcoming for people who are multiply marginalised with being disabled/nd + lgbt+.
neurodivergent people: validation is extremely important to me because it’s nice to be told that I’m not just making up my symptoms and other people have experienced the same things
marginalized people: validation is extremely important to me because it’s nice to be told that I’m not just making up my oppression and other people have experienced the same things
abuse survivors: validation is extremely important to me because it’s nice to be told that I’m not just making up my abuse and other people have experienced the same things
some shitpipe crawling out of a gutter somewhere: time to make a meme about not being valid
people love to talk about franz kafka’s surrealism, but as soon as you tell them his writing was specifically influenced by him being a multiply disabled jewish man who was bisexual, they become disinterested real fast
#seriously though no one believes me when I say that the metamorphosis is about disability
absolutely nobody can convince me that “the metamorphosis” is about anything BUT disability, ableism, and anti-semitism
like, you can literally look at kafka’s thoughts in his diaries and letters during the time he was writing it, and see him struggling with feeling physically and emotionally repulsive to people as his health was beginning to really decline, and the way his personality is shaped by paranoia, anxiety, and depression, as well as the obvious correlation between annihilation and anti-semitism
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