So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

It always feels frustrating for me that "late diagnosed" is always equated with high masking and low support needs. I've never been able to mask successfully, and I've always been at least medium support needs. I'm *very* visibly autistic, to the point that I've had many complete strangers correctly guess that I have autism. I'm also late diagnosed. I was diagnosed in my late teens. This was partially due to medical neglect, but also because for a long time, I had a different diagnosis that was used to write off my symptoms. Please stop equating "late diagnosed" with low support needs, or even an ability to survive without support. There's late diagnosed people who weren't/aren't either of those.

if you can’t eat a whole meal, eat half. you ate, that’s what is important.

if you can’t get out of bed, try and sit up instead of lying down. it’ll be better for your back and your blood pressure.

if you can’t shower or have a bath today, try and brush your teeth and clean your ears. it’ll keep you a little cleaner, and we often forget those areas. 

if you can’t get dressed today, change underwear and use some deoderant. it’ll leave you a little fresher until you have the strength to change fully.

and remember, i’m very proud of you. your best will look different every day, and that’s okay.

say support nonverbal people but.

do support not able communicate thoughts or feelings in the " correct " words?

do support not able communicate at all?

do still say " go nonverbal "?

do still assume we not worth talk to?

do still assume we not able hear or understand or contribute?

do support us even if not able hear or understand or contribute?

do still use us as inspiration porn?

do still see nonverbal as " tragedy "?

say support nonverbal but do have any idea what that need to mean?

im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities

Honestly as a blind person I’m so tired of seeing fictional blind characters who don’t use white canes or other guides. “They have special powers so they know what’s around them” or “they’re confident enough to not need a guide” are common tropes, and I’m tired.

Are people scared that using a white cane will make their blind character seem weak? They can’t use a cane because they’re so special that they already know what’s around them, and other blind people who use guides are inferior because they’re not special?

I’m tired. Give your blind characters white canes and other guides. Let them hold onto their friends, let them have guide dogs. Don’t make white cane users feel ostracized for not being “strong enough” to go without.

Another thing that pisses me off is when a sighted character comes up with the fantasy equivalent of braille and teaches it to the blind character. Braille was invented by Louis Braille, a blind man, in 1824. The blind character should be the one coming up with it.

Tldr I’m blind and tired of sighted people lol

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ok i need. need. NEED. you all to understand what high support needs autism actually is. not just higher support, but highhhh (high) support.

& honestly me, am not even fit to talk about this!! but knowing popular (often low support) autism content creators & authors tokenize me & include me in justification “well i listen to high support needs people and they need—”

high support needs not just need remind take meds, not even need remind eat, need remind shower. if you think “high support needs” & those struggles come first in mind & see those as most represent of HSN, most classical way of be HSN, then you wrong. you wronggg.

many HSN autistic, not even “advanced” enough (for not have better word) to able use reminders. on average day often need physical help. for a lot, need complete physical help. need complete physical help hold spoon n fork, or not able be a part at all and need other people do it. need be told open mouth chew swallow sometimes. need other people clean up drool & spill from mouth & mess.

they have worth. deserve all the fucking help they need.

“difference between low & high support is not actual amount struggle because all struggle inside same but that high support show more external outside struggle & those struggle more annoying for people around them” hear this so often and make blood boil because cannot be farther from truth yet some you all so loudly proclaim.

then tell me why only hear LSN say this. why only hear LSN on internet. why all big content creator big authors big autistic speakers all LSN.

tell me how someone nonverbal and no robust communication no functional language struggle even nonverbally communicate not even AAC not yet or not ever ever, how that same inside as someone who able speak who speak fluent who able communicate want needs dreams have conversation with words

both struggle. but not fucking same struggle.

many people in between. but you not get use people like them like me to give self shiny credential of “i know high support needs because i listen”

don’t use me. you embarrass me.

Shout out to the queer kids who live in an accepting area but still aren’t sure they’re always accepted.

shout out to the kids who’s parents are *fine* with them, but nothing more than that.

shout out to the kids that had a really awkward coming out, and no one’s mentioned it since.

shout out to the kids who’s straight friends like to discuss queer issues, and often have the a skewed idea of what’s ok.

shout out to kids who are mostly accepted, but still would rather leave.

You’re valid

Taking away disability accommodations as a punishment is ableist as fuck and needs to stop now!

[This also includes punishing autistic kids by taking away their access to stim toys or sensory breaks!]

i have this headcanon that annabeth is completely nonchalant in her day-to-day life. and it makes so much sense to me because this girl dedicates all of her brain power/energy toward surviving, ensuring a future as an architect, and toward living the rest of her natural life with the people she loves, that mundane things like whether or not to wear her slippers on the correct feet are pointless to her. like, to me, annabeth dips her bagels in a jar of cream cheese and bagel seasoning because fuck it. to me, annabeth steals percy's pants and throws on a hoodie because she doesn't feel like walking across the room to retrieve a bra and a shirt from her dresser. to me, annabeth uses an office chair to transport herself around her and percy's apartment because free will.

no unsolicited advice also applies to addiction btw

Shout out to the ten year old who just got diagnosed. Shout out to the housebound fourteen year old. Shout out to the eighteen year old who can’t go to the university they wanted. Shout out to the twenty two year old who can’t get a job. Shout out to the twenty six year old with a caretaker. Shout out to the thirty year old who can’t buy their own house.

Shout out to young disabled people. We exist.

Hey older family members!

Yes you, 25 year old “cool aunt”

Anyone over the age of 18 with family members under 18!

STOP HARASSING YOUR DISABLED FAMILY ABOUT DRIVERS LICENSES!!!!!

If your 16 year old niece is having seizures and just learned she can’t drive, do NOT ass salt in the wound by saying shit like “well maybe one day” or “can’t you just take the written part of the test” or any other variation of “well just get a license”.

It’s not funny.

It’s not helpful.

We’re already grieving the life we were gonna have and now can’t, don’t make us have to defend our actions to you as well.

treating all brain machine interfacing like it’s neuralink/invented by Elon Musk is so disgusting and viciously ableist. if you call all brain chips and all brain-machine interfacing “neuralink” you deserve to get your teeth knocked out by a paralyzed person with a bionic exoskeleton. also you’re ugly

nothing is funnier than cis abled ppl with nothing wrong with them who wear dog collars insisting they are the bigger freak than me. It gives me such a rush that this is what I make other ppl insecure about

yeah you're "punk" but are you normal about deformed people?

You eat the materials being used for task number one, then swiftly begin task number two.

How do I switch between tasks