Is Colin Becher Still Alive:

Yes!

Colin Becher Has Survived:

100 days!!!!!!!

Being asked to rate your pain on a scale as someone who has had chronic pain for several years is so difficult. Like how am I supposed to rate the pain I am experiencing from 1-10 when I have no idea what it feels like to not be in pain. Like what is 0? what is 1?? what is even 10???? What am I comparing it to???? My 5 can be someone else's 10 and their 10 can be someone else's 2, and how is a doctor or anyone else for that matter supposed to tell the difference? Maybe it's because I'm autistic and I'm just overthinking it but it literally makes no sense to me.

This autism month please remember those of us who:

need verbal prompting (someone telling us each single, small step to a task) or hands on help for things like showering, getting dressed, cooking simple meals, using a toilet ....

who struggle to go outside alone or cant do it all, not out of fear or no motivation or anything but because we keep getting lost and cant find our way back, because the outside world is like a blurry maze that never becomes more logical no matter how many times we have walked that street, because we need help with mobility aids, or can not understand that cars are dangerous, other people can be dangerous, ...

whose bodies dont listen to what our brains tell it to do. Whose bodies throw things when we didnt tell it to, told it to stop. Who hit our head against the walls while wishing we could stop. Whose bodies freeze when we tell it to move. Not just for a task we are unable to start, but any movement at all. I dont mean when i'm stuck scrolling through my phone thinking about how much i should do that task but cant, I mean when im sitting on the kitchen floor and staring into space for an hour unable to even lift my hand to scratch my nose.

Those of us that will never work a job outside of sheltered workshops, if at all.

Who drool and scream and jump and hum and rock in the waiting room at the doctors office, on public transport, ...

"Autism isn't a disability, it's just an alternate neurotype!"

I'm level 1. That's pretty mild, in terms of difficulty, compared to many other autistic people. And even so, I will never be able to live and work as easily as someone without autism.

To give a basic idea of how autism impacts my life beyond simply being an "alternate neurotype..." I started college last year and I've gone to cry in the bathrooms so many times because the classrooms are too bright and loud, or because I embarrassed myself by misunderstanding directions that were clear for everyone else. I have to layer entire outfits under my volunteer work uniform so the texture doesn't touch my skin, even when it's hot out. I struggle with understanding assignments so I'm usually up past midnight working on them, even if it's a smaller assignment that my classmates are finishing in under an hour. I've had people pull me aside to tell me that I'm making people uncomfortable by not looking them in the eyes, making the wrong facial expressions, or just rocking back and forth too much. Sometimes I get so overstimulated that I freeze up and can't say more than a couple words at a time. I've skipped meals because the only things I could find had textures that make me want to vomit. Being autistic isn't all misery and suffering, but there are undeniably many aspects of it that are disabling.

And, again, I'm only level 1. The "mild" end. Everything I just talked about is way harder for level 2 and 3 autistic people. I have a level 3 brother who can't mask his autism at all, is completely nonverbal, and will probably never be able to go to college at all, let alone work a job or live without a caregiver. It makes me fucking enraged that people insist that autistic people like him don't exist just because they don't want themselves, the Good, Perfectly Abled Autistics, to be associated with people like him, the Bad, Disabled Autistics.

If you're autistic and can genuinely say you're not disabled by it at all, that's... Interesting. I'm honestly curious about how you can have the symptoms of autism and not be disabled in the slightest. But even if you've miraculously received some version of autism that never even inconveniences you, that does not mean that autism isn't a disability, or that other autistic people aren't disabled by it. Please quit throwing other autistic people under the bus.

(Tw for ableism, meltdowns, elopement, etc.)

Hi, I am currently in an argument with someone in a comment section because they are saying that autism is not a disability. So I decided that I want to make a post about it, and thoroughly talk about it.

If you do not know me, hello. I am an autistic primarily nonspeaking teenager with mid-high support needs. I'm disabled.

I am honestly very tired of low support needs autistics saying that autism isnt disabling, because it very much is for me and a lot of other people. Just because your experience isnt the same as ours, doesn't cancel out our experience.

I will never live alone. I am a teenager who can not make food, or blow dry his own hair. My ability to use oral speech varies a lot, and when I can use it, I usually end up having severe meltdowns from it. I am in special ed. It hurts when I brush my hair. I have put myself in danger by running into the street. My emotions are extremely strong, so I often seem rude when I'm not, I just can't control the fact that when I feel something it's so incredibly strong that it hurts. I have little to no internal sensation. I could not bathe myself until I was 9 or ten, and even now I will not just go and take a shower myself; I need someone to tell me to, and I need a visual schedule to help me do so. And many more things.

The person's response was to then say that is not because I am autistic, that is because of the way mankind is. That my autism is not disabling, society is. And whilst I do agree that society is horrible to disabled people, and it would be much much easier to exist as a disabled person in this world if society was different, that doesn't change the fact that my autism is disabling. Me being nonspeaking is not because of society. Me being unable to care for myself is not because of society. Most of the things on that list are not because of society!

Just because low support needs people exist, does absolutely not give them the right to speak over us, and tell us what our experiences are or are not.

My autism is disabling. Listen to me. Listen to me. My life has been severely impacted because I am disabled. You can not sit there and tell me that me being unable to care for myself, and unable to live alone ever, isn't disabling, and that it's because of society.

I am disabled. Stop speaking over high support needs autistics.

"romantic intimacy is essential to developing your foundations in young adult life!1!" what if I hit u with my car.

giving mr bonzo “head” and by “head” haha well lets just s

Samama Khalid 🤝 Oliver Banks

"I had a breakdown and lost my whole job and now my nights are filled with horrors"

my official stance is a pregnancy is whatever the pregnant person wants it to be. if it’s a 4 week old clump of cells and they want to call it a baby it’s a baby. if they're 20 weeks and they want to call it a parasite it’s a parasite. if they're 39 weeks and call it a fetus it’s a fetus. “why are you so sad about miscarrying at 6 weeks it was literally just an embryo” because that was their baby. “how can you get an abortion at three months” because that wasn’t a baby. hope that helps.

“so mr bonzo goes to a strip club”

oh?

“and he strips-”

WHAT

“several people of their limbs”

yep that makes more sense

reasons to get top surgery:

boobs 😡😭😔🥲😮‍💨

reasons why not to get top surgery:

boobs 🤭😋😄🥰😍

im sorry i had to do it that line is just so damn *chef's kiss* ARO