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reedygryphon · 18 hours
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I decided to create something that I wish I had when I first got diagnosed with autism - so here’s my comic for ASDComicTakeover! You can find out more about the project here!
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reedygryphon · 19 hours
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By the window
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reedygryphon · 6 days
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reedygryphon · 6 days
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after a long day
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reedygryphon · 6 days
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reedygryphon · 6 days
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reedygryphon · 6 days
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I have trouble taking care of my teeth because everything that involves doing that is a sensory nightmare. I decide to do some research to see if there's anything I can do about this. The results?
"How to make your autistic child brush their teeth"
"Autistic Children and Sensory issues relating to tooth brushing"
"How to get your little shit to brush his fucking teeth"
Like, yeah Google, thanks, that really helps. And like, even if I was a child, some of the advice seemed... unhelpful. Like, doing a dance and singing a song while brushing your teeth? Even for a kid, I don't think that would help distract from a sensory experience as intense as brushing your teeth. Like, the extremely intense and unpleasant flavor, the intense feeling of the brush against your teeth scraping across it, even mouthwash has such an intense and disgusting flavor that I have difficulty keeping it in my mouth for more than a few seconds. I wish there was SOMETHING that could be done.
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reedygryphon · 14 days
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People don’t realize just the sheer mental toll it has on you to see abled and allistic people doing things that you can’t do.
Oh nice, you have a new job? I haven’t worked for years due to my disability and maybe never will.
Oh nice, you’re moving into a new apartment independently? Sounds fun, I probably never will be able to live on my own.
The utter strain all of this puts on someone’s mental health is HARD. Being higher support needs isn’t all sunshine and rainbows folks. It isn’t fun to not be independent, to rely on others just to fucking do simple things. It’s hard, it hurts. It isn’t fun to have every aspect of your life controlled by others. It isn’t fun to be doing things that your 14 year old sister has already excelled at. It isn’t fun.
I will never ever understand people who think that being higher support needs is easy and all rainbows because we usually don’t work and “get everything handed to us” like please. Just listen to us once and awhile.
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reedygryphon · 14 days
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You. Are. worthy.
Even if you never drive. Even if you need help with basic tasks. Even if you need help with hygiene. Even if you’ll never work. Even if you’ll need help for the rest of your life. You’re. Still. Worthy.
Don’t let anyone tell you that you’re useless, or that you don’t deserve certain things. You’re amazing, and I see you.
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reedygryphon · 14 days
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thinking about the time i said to a couple people that i can't drive due to my autism, and one of them said something like "i don't have a choice bc my parents made me drive". that bothered me for a while, and continues to bother me. i don't have a choice either. if my life depended on me driving, i would die.
it feels to me like whenever i say "i can't do this because of my autism", allistics (or often times lower support needs autistics) assume that i have actually just decided not to do something, instead of understanding that i am physically incapable of doing it, even if my life depended on it, even if i desperately wanted to.
i wish allistics understood that an autistic person's limitations cannot be changed with motivation or different choices. sometimes it feels like other people have a harder time accepting my needs and limits. than i do myself.
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reedygryphon · 14 days
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I know I'm shouting into the void with this one but like. Genuinely so many low support needs people dont understand what it's like having even medium support needs. Like I am entirely dependent on other people for many of my needs. I can not see a doctor without someone else scheduling the appointment, taking me there and doing a large amount of the communication for me.
If my caretaker had not been accepting of me being trans and invested hundreds of hours into psych appointments and taking me to my endocrinologist and doing all the paperwork involved with my name change and literally taking a week off work to stay with me in the hospital for surgery etc i would have just like. Never transitioned. My ability to transition was entirely dependent on a singular person and that's what a lot of other parts of my life are like as well. and that's fucking terrifying and a great way to be neglected and abused in ways that are horribly hard to get away from.
I dont drive, I dont work, I struggle to leave the house at all, I dont fucking communicate with people majority of the time. The things that are hard for you? I probably can not do them to begin with. No one in my family lives even close to a comparable life to me. None of my irl friends do. I'm incredibly isolated.
And then I go online and see people rant about how easy MSN and HSN people have it because we just get everything we need and how because people can tell we are disabled everything is so easy because none of you even manage to listen to us talk about the neglect and abuse and trauma we face/d. I see people angry at their (more) disabled siblings for getting care they need to survive instead of mad at society for creating a system where its incredibly hard for families to take care of both a higher support needs child and another child.
And I see people who live completely independent lives who work and drive and make their own doctors appointments and grocery shop and travel by themselves call themselves MSN (I could go on a rant about how that's also often the fault of LSN influencers for not leaving a lot of room in their own community for legitimate struggle but that's for another day).
I just want my needs met. I want to be able to decide where I live. I want choice in my care. I want to be able to have community with those like me. I want others to realize I exist and leave the words i have to describe my existence alone. I want others to listen to what I have to say about what my life is like.
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reedygryphon · 17 days
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Casual Bakumomo for your casual bakumomo needs~
In which the couple of nerds spend the night together studying because Bakugou needed to answer some questions that Kirishima, his study partner par excellence, couldn’t solve.
Yaoyorozu was more intrigued about how he can understand his own handwriting.
The bakumomo family is so sweet and welcoming! thank you so much for letting me be part of this small but amazing fandom!
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reedygryphon · 22 days
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i know this wont get any traction cuz im not on pjo tumblr and also i have a dteam main LMAO but im not making another blog just to post this so heres some book annabeth cuz im re-reading the books in honour of tsts (im probably gonna redraw this as series annabeth too at some point xo)
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reedygryphon · 22 days
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“IT ALWAYS FIT’S. EVENTUALLY”.
Welp, I’m kinda late to the party (I always kinda forgot to post my stuff here on Tumblr), but the first teaser for the show came out, and gooods, I can’t wait for it’s release. I still been seeing a lot of people talking about the cast, and not being very nice about it (to say the least), especially about Leah. So I wanted to remind this to everyone who’s still unsure about the cast. I can’t wait to see the three on them on the show <3
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reedygryphon · 22 days
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Does anyone remember Percy Jackson? 🤔
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reedygryphon · 22 days
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Me again! This time a little au art х)
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reedygryphon · 24 days
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Bakumomo Parallel: Their mentors remembering that they’re just kids that overburdened themselves, before giving them the tailored support they need to grow.
For momo: an honest opportunity to regain confidence in her abilities
For bakugou: an apology for neglecting his emotional needs
I love parallel hero journeys <3
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