if you told me in october 2023 that casper ruud would beat djokovic in a masters 1000 semifinal I would have laughed
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Is it embarassing to say that i’ll probably cry when I watch the first actual gaming video of this new era, and I’ll especially cry when we see the howlter family again???
oh, you're not alone! i WILL cry the second i hear "hello" and one of them smiles knowingly or starts laughing. imagine that! we all have been waiting for it for so so long, begging them, begging Dan specifically, and we actually have it back!!!! the moment of acknowledgement of what we've gone through is gonna ruin me, i'm gonna cry a fucking river, i'm ready.
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Some thoughts about being an autistic kid at the turn of the millennium:
First, the good: professionals and the public were starting to be aware that a kid without speech delay, a kid who seemed "precocious", could in fact be autistic. This allowed me to finally get diagnosed.
ABA didn't yet have a chokehold on all things autism, at least not in the rural South where I was.
Now the bad stuff (there was a lot of it):
Nonspeaking kids were often written off as incapable of learning or understanding, while kids like me were told "Oh, you don't have autism, you just have Aspergers. You have the *super genius* kind of autism!"
Autism Speaks got its start, and its early commercials were *scary*.
Antivax sentiment was really starting to take hold of my parents and other adults around me.
Simon Baron-Cohen's "extreme male brain" junk science was growing more prominent and not yet being questioned. This continues to hurt autistics of all genders.
Autistic girls were barely acknowledged... unless we were acknowledged in the worst way possible. Experts often characterized us as somehow "failing" at being girls, and tried to force performative femininity on us to "fix us".
Queer autistics were even more rarely acknowledged, except as "confused" or "misguided".
The idea that autistic people were logic machines incapable of telling stories or making original art was very entrenched, and boy did it affect how I saw myself.
TL,DR: A lot of the autism stereotypes and misconceptions we are still fighting 20-ish years later were *really prominent* in the aughts.
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i think i'm still in shock bc i remember when byler was fully fanon. a crack ship. not a possibility to the average viewer. now the the general audience knows canonically that will is gay and has been in love with mike for years, will's legitimately a possible love interest for mike, interviewers are asking about the ship, cast and crew and creators are talking about it and supporting it... it's surreal
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