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clownrecess · 1 year

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★Hello! Welcome to the blog. :0] ★

(Plain text: Hello! Welcome to the blog.)

Xe/They/He/It/Clown/Pup/Aqua

Autistic, queer, and a nonspeaking AAC user. Most posts are about these things, but some aren't.

NONSPEAKING MEANS PERMANENT OR VERY LONG LASTING.

(Plain text: NONSPEAKING MEANS PERMANENT OR VERY LONG LASTING.)

Neurodivergent, developmentally disabled, and physically disabled

Gay (Uranic(MLM) gaybian. Separate identities.), greysexual, cupiosexual, multipluralic genderqueer trans boy who uses xenogenders.

I am a professionally diagnosed autistic but I absolutely, fully support self diagnosed! /gen

Side blog for poetry: @nonspeakingpoetry

Religious side blog: @nordic-trails

agere/agedre/coping side blog: @blanketpup

medcore (coping) sideblog: @childrensgown

xenogender sideblog: @notepadmogai

blog françias: @carnetcollectif

Please use tonetags!!

If I don't respond to your comment, reblog, or ask, right away please don't think I am ignoring you. It is EXTREMELY unlikely I am ignoring you, I probably just don't have to spoons to respond yet.

Before you send me an ask about "I'm speaking, but its hard, can I still use AAC?" Read this. If you still have questions then send an ask /gen

Want to write a nonspeaking character and need tips? Read this. If you still have questions, send an ask /gen

Before you ask "I have speech loss episodes! Can I use the term nonspeaking for myself?" Read this. If you still have questions, send an ask /gen

If you are a parent of an AAC user and would like tips, read this. If you have any questions, send an ask /gen

My special interests are: Oddities (especially taxidermy), VOCALOID, Paul Dano, OMORI, DC, human rights and social issues, xenogenders, MCR (And The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys. Really just anything relating back to MCR or any of their members.), She-Ra And The Princess Of Power, adult animation, Popee The Performer, Animal Crossing, horror, clowns, frogs, gastropods, Welcome Home, Euphoria, and theme parks!

DNI:

Endogenics/tulpagenics and supporters, radfems, terfs, pro 4n4/m1a/sh, ed/sh accounts (I DO NOT CARE THAT YOU "AREN'T PRO"), fatphobic/queerphobic/ableist/sexist/antisemitic/racist etc, people named Jer0me, anti xenogender, d0xx3rs, blogs that post about Christianity frequently, rad-queer, pro-capitalists, JKR supporters, Harry Potter fans, proshippers, pro-ABA, anti-self diagnosis, anti ACAB/anti BLM/pro "all lives/blue lives matter", bootlickers, Autism Speaks supporters, people who use the term "aspie", people who post about or have profile pictures related to Inside Job on Netflix, people who post about or have profile photos related to Insatiable on Netflix, people who use ChatGPT, people who use the terms nonverbal/nonspeaking/semiverbal/semispeaking to describe a temporary state even after being told it's incorrect (this list will be updated as needed)

#dni #xenogender #aac user #dni list #polyfragmented #nonspeaking autistic #neurodivergent #actually autistic #autistic did system #endos do not interact #colored text

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lacylambpuppy · 9 months

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lamb／pup／yīng　♡　syshost　🍼°・

｡°🌀 crutchian transmuette shotaage　♢

૮꒰◌´ତ `◌ ꒱ྀིა mortemchro 3-8 xenoblack °◝.

ೃ☁️ ୭̥ genderfaunet abrosexual lacething °♪◎

lamb regressor + puppy dreamer + agere 〜🥣~

cisdisabled｡｡｡chronic, physical, mental ＞＜

૮꒰ ｡っ -｡꒱ఎ vent posts might not be child safe

ঌ🍵 peacequeer ૮ ྀི ◞ ◟ ა prns + titles + ids ↓cut

pronouns ー ♡

sho、shota、🍼、squi、squib、squid、pao、paopu、pon、 ponyo、🦑、cloud、☁️、🌧️、🌨️、🌫️、wish、shine、kyu、pup、lamb、baa、🐾、🐑、doll、plush、pwush、soft、lace、🧸、auti、aspie、sne、sneeze、tic、🌀、🌡️、　→　aux it、he

titles ー ☆

the/prn tiniest ̫ the/prn sweetest ̫ the damsel ̫ the lost prince ̫ young master/prince of the clouds ̫ the one with light ̫ the new star ̫ the wishing star ̫ the shooting star ̫ the doll ̫ the doll of cloud ̫ prn ball-jointed beauty ̫ the/prn softest plush ̫ the stuffed-animal ̫ build-a-lamb ̫ build-a-pup ̫ prn sacred silence ̫ prn who weeps ̫ the sky child ̫ prn of the sea-foam ̫ the idol ̫ tiny dancer ̫ prns sweet divinity ̫ the/prns divine cuteness ̫ the prince/young master of seraphs ̫ prn of seraphs ̫ prn immortality ̫ prn who has stickers on prns crutches ̫ the crippled child ̫ prn pallid complexion ̫ the little lamb ̫ the little pup ̫ prn with a fluffy tail ̫ prn wool

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councilof-frogs · 9 months

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This is an intro post to be pinned to our account

🐸Hey! We’re the council of frogs system.

🐸We’re professionally diagnosed with ASD, PTSD, and anxiety.

🐸semi-verbal

🐸We were diagnosed at level 1 autism but our psych said it might have been closer to level 2 and we have recently skill regressed

🐸starting to use AAC because of skill regression, and finally working through shame that has made us choose not being functional over using disability supports

🍄We also experience chronic pain and a handful of other physical symptoms

🍄part time cane/forearm crutch user

🍄have talked to doctors about (but aren’t dx’d with) DID.

🌻college student but currently on a (possibly permanent) break

🌻majoring in drawing and illustration

🫐This blog is mostly for autism/disability/system things but occasional info dumps/special interest or hyperfixations reblogs will be tagged #infodump or #specialinterest

🫐I appreciate tone tags

🫐I don’t mind mass liking/reblogging (once I have more posts up)

🍓Alt accounts:

🍓Art: @devinp-art

🍓Sys littles/agere: @tadpole-space

🍓Reading+positivity blog: @system-reads

Icon: xynono on picrew “sitting avatar maker”

DNI: fakeclaiming, endo/tulpa, Autism speaks supporters, use “aspie”, basic DNI things

May add to DNI later, will make a post if so

#medium support needs #autism #actually autistic #disability #actuallyautistic

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little-silly-bear · 3 years

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Hello Cookie!! Can you explain autism symptoms for me?

Hi dear! Well it’s a very big argument and I want to talk about my experience that is different from others on the spectrum since every person is unique. I was diagnosed the last year and it was a shock since I’m 23 and I lived my whole life thinking “what is wrong with me? Why I just can’t get friends or having a conversation like the others?” Tumblr literally saved me, I saw a lot of post of regressors that are on the autism spectrum and I was like “Wait..that isn’t normal? I mean not everyone do that?”. So I did a loooot and I mean a looooot of researches on this argument, I tried to study more that I could and I found myself at home.

I can try to summarise the big symptoms for you (I’m not an expert I’m just a kiddo pls don’t be mean if I say or spell something wrong it’s also 5 am here) :

Sensory issues-it means that you have one or more senses very high, you’re sensitive to touch, smells, tastes, sounds or sights and they are more but I don’t remember those ahah! You can have all of them or a mix of them, usually they are more that one. You can’t stand having targets on your shirt, some kind of fabrics drives you crazy and you just really need that blanket to live a regular life and can’t understand why? Yeah me too. Most of the time they are bad, like some sounds literally makes me crazy, in high school I spent a terrible time because no one believed that I felt pain for certain sounds or lights. But I try my best to concentrate on what makes me happy like the fluffy blankets, not having socks, sleeping with a weight blanket, walking with my cancelling headphones and the taste of a cheesy pizza. You just need to listen to your brain if that light is too much please, when possible turning off, your health comes first! I tried to suppress this feelings my whole life to make other people “comfortable” aroun me but not anymore! If a room is too crowded and I literally hear every person talking, I usually feel very sick and need to recharge in another room. When I was a kid and my parents used to take me to the mall I literally fainted, they thought it was something that makes me unique but now we now it was my body reacting to overstimulation.

Having trouble socialising and in building relationships. This was the first criteria that convinced my therapist that I needed a test. As I told before I never get other people, they seemed like a different species to me and if I wanted a friend I needed to work really hard on acting and behaving like them. Obviously I failed every single time because I couldn’t resist more than few weeks? Also this was around elementary/middle school when in my head I needed friends like a task to do 😂 when I realised that I was way more happier by myself I didn’t try it again! But for me, like a lot of us is difficult because everything is built in a way that isn’t ours, every single conversation is based on a neurotypical way. The small talks, the chit chat, I never get this things, why we need to talk about the weather when we can talk about how cool is the Pokémon Go game? Do you know what I mean? I think you does. Also big tip try to talk with a person on the autism spectrum and see if you’re more comfortable and tuned with them, I had three friends irl ,we’re all on the spectrum and let me tell you that is so much easier talk and keeping a relationship when you both understand each other.

Special interests!! Omg! Pls don’t get me started I will never end this post 😂 they literally saved my life, I didn’t know they were special interest until my therapist told me but let me tell you that I have a lot of them!!! Special interests are one or more subjects that you have a deep, almost professional, passion about. They can be simple, scholastic or very complex topic. And you don’t need to be an encyclopaedia to prove that is your special interest, the same fact that you have something that you reaaaaaally love talking about and can’t stop learning more and more about it makes it valid. Let me tell you that at the age 10 I learned Japanese because I fell in love with Japan culture, I didn’t have internet I studied from books and old movies/animes. I never thought that was a special interest because for me it was just my way of loving something.

Stimming. This is something that our dear cousins with ADHD have in common with us. Most of the times someone in the autism spectrum have also adhd and viceversa but it isn’t always the case. Stimming is a natural process to express our emotions, it comes naturally and it’s like an electric feelings (for me) it’s something that you can’t stop and if you tried to suppress it will grow and make you feel worst (not like in a tic or ocd way more in a mental state). Everyone stim, people stimming to music is very acceptable and well viewed by the society but people like us need to stim to express our emotional state. I personally suppressed my stims for so many years because of bad teachers that im still trying to relearn most of them. It’s a common thing to having your diagnosis or starting to accept your autistic traits and then see your stims grow like never before! Most are gestures like flappy hands or jumping when you’re happy or if you ate a good food but they could be everything like chewing, singing, humming, bouncing legs, hair wrapping, scratching, eating nails, watching aesthetic photos, listening a song on repeat or clapping hands.

They’re more and more things to add in this list but I already did a long post and I got so excited for this question that I forgot to take my meds 😂 I tried to summarise with the points that my therapist told me were the most relevant for my diagnosis. Let me know if you need more advices, my dms are always open for you little beans that need help or tips from your big sibling! Have a good day and happy stimming to everyone 💕

#mine #sfw agere #agere #ageregression #age regression #pure agere #agere community #age regressor #autism agere #autistic agere #aspie agere #agere ask #agere asks

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snailonasunflower · 2 years

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Some of my special interests:

-Dinos❣ 🦖

-Pokemon❣ (my CG recently bought the Diamond remake for our switch and im super excited start my file~ I also play Pkmn Go almost everyday)

-Animal Crossing❣

-Music/singing/making customized playlists❣🎵

-Organizing❣📦 (anything from redoing my sock drawer to realigning my stuffed animal collection)

-Weed❣🌲🌿 (helps a lot with my physical/mental health)

-Writing❣📖 (journaling or making my own stories)

-Cats❣ 🐱

-Snails❣ 🐌

-Plants❣ 🪴🌱🌻

-Marine life❣ 🐳🐟🐬🐠🐙 (especially nudibranch and cephalopods)

-Plushies❣ 🧸

-Dragons❣ 🐉

-Mycology❣ 🍄

-Blowing bubbles❣

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kappastel · 3 years

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😤 ᵢ wₐₙₜ cₕᵢccₑₙ ₙₒggₑₘₛ 😤

#age re blog #sfw agere #agere #actually austistic #autistic life #actually aspie

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pancakes-forpresident · 6 years

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How to take care of autistic littles

So I know quite a few autistic littles and I thought I should make a post about them! Remember that needs differ for everyone and some people might not need some, or any, of these things. But anyway, I will start now.

When they are having a meltdown or shutdown, please respect them. If they normally like being touched, then go ahead, but slowly just in case. If they don’t, then DO NOT TOUCH THEM unless they are a danger to themselves in which case find some help and move them away. After they have a meltdown, maybe help them regress. And you should be ables to tell the difference between a meltdown or shutdown, and a tantrum.

A few of my autistic little friends have anxiety, which a lot of autistic people do. Please do not push them to do anything they don’t want, and they might like their rgression a little out of the norm. If they are anxious, try and distract them with a little activity you know they like. Or maybe some snacks or treats!

Yeah, thats about it! I might make a part two when I remember some more stuff about it, but thanks for reading!

#agere #autis #actually autistic #autistic #autism #sfw agere #agere blog #autistic little #little #age re #aspie

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the-hyperfixations-of-isaiah · 2 years

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Welcome to my account

My name is Isaiah

Neurodivergent and a minor /srs

My pronouns are (he/she) mainly he but i like when people switch it around

Bi aroace and genderfluid

If i do or say something strange its probably satire (its not)

INFP-T

Do not follow if you're:

-racist

-real person shipper

-homophobic

-ace/arophobic

-transphobic

-sexist

-whitewasher

- pro life

- abelist

-misogynist

-autism speaks supporter

-aspie superamacy

-superstraight

-anti agere

Generally a shitty person

fandoms:

-homestuck (unironically)

-ninjago

- the owl house

- amphibia

-empires smp (s1 and 2)

-camp half blood (most books read)

-fnaf (kind of, i barely remember most of the lore but its cool)

-the goldfinch (both movie and book)

-afterlife smp

-3rd life

-most barbie movies

-rotmnt 2018 + 2012

-the mechanisms (is that a fandom?? Either way LISTEN TO IT)

-randy cunningham 9th grade ninja

-rotg

-rotbtd

-so literally anything ninja related

I'm not sorry

Expect messes from me

My artstyle has no form of consistency

Click the drawings for better quality

OH AND FEEL FREE TO INFODUMP TO ME IN DMS!!

PLEASE TAKE ACTION TO STOP THE WILLOW PROJECT https://stopwillow.org/

Thank youuu :)

#read first;

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allism-kills · 3 years

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Blog Introduction:

Name: Spergie (if you’re autistic), AK. Pronouns: He/him. Age: 21. Etc: Autistic (professional-DX), discalculic, mentally ill, bisexual arospec transgender (TME), white, atheist. I hate allistics and cis people.

DNI: T(W)ERFs/SWERFs/radfems/tradfems/gender critical/transmisogynists, Nazi/anti-Semitic/white supremacist/racists/fascists/anti-antifa/All Lives Matter/Blue Lives Matter/pro-cop/anti-Black Lives Matter, ableists/Auti$m $peak$ supporters, fujoshis/yaoi fans/chasers, pedos/MAPs/NOMAPs/PEARs/clovergender, zoophiles, DDLG/CGL/littlespace/NSFW agere (SFW agere and systems with little alters are fine), factkin (otherkin/fictionkin/therian are fine), NSFW/kink/fetish blogs, pro-shippers/anti-antis/one of those “fiction doesn’t affect reality” fuckers, LGBTQ+phobic in general (includes aphobics)/intersexists/exclusionists/trumeds/you’re part of the “Drop the T” or “Algae” movements, fatphobic, pro-ED and pro-self harm blogs*, you support YouTubers like PewDiePie/Cryotic/Antoons/GinjaNinjaOwO/Night Mind/Kalvin Garrah/Contrapoints/etc., you support celebrities like William Shatner/Sia/Melanie Martinez/Victor Salva/Johnny Depp/Benedict Cumberbatch/Dahvie Vanity/J.K. Rowling/etc.

*I understand that pro-ED and pro-self harm places outside of Tumblr are often times dedicated to harm reduction, acceptance, and recovery rather than being places where people encourage these behaviors, however, more often than not on Tumblr, pro-ED/self harm blogs often encourage addictive behaviors and purposefully post triggering things.

I know that’s a long list but I’m allowed to have a long list because this is my fucking blog. Go cry about it if you don’t like that you’re included on my DNI. I know my DNI is gonna end up on some butthurt loser’s cringe blog, so by all means, do it.

Ask to follow: Traumacore blogs.

Allistics can follow, but don’t fucking derail my posts about autism, since I know you fuckers just love to do that.

Cis people can also follow, but you’re on thin fucking ice.

BYF: I am pro-self-DX (as long as you’ve done your research), pro-autigender, and pro-allowing oppressed people to hate and/or distrust their oppressors. If any of that offends you, don’t fucking follow me. Thanks.

If I ever reblog from someone on my DNI list, please tell me. Also, if I violate someone else’s DNI, feel free to say something. I won’t violate a DNI on purpose.

I post mostly about relatable autistic, disabled, and mentally ill things, occasional discourse, politics, positivity, general stuff about disabilities/disorders/mental illnesses, posts spreading awareness about the mistreatment of neurodivergent people, stimmy stuff, etc.

If I ever say something out of line, misinterpret tone, or in general just say or do something problematic, feel free to tell me so that I can apologize and do better in the future.

Allistics do not call me aspie, sperg, autist, sped, or the r-slur. Do not use those words in general, they are not for you to use/reclaim.

#actuallyautistic #actually autistic #autism blog #autism

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savegraduation · 5 years

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Aaliyah Would Be Proud

I'm James Landau, known on the Internet as Savegraduation.

I am starting this blog, Aaliyah Would Be Proud, to discuss one of most important and flammable issues of our time: youth rights. There are civil rights (for African-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Arab-Americans, Native Americans, Mexican-Americans, Indian-Americans, Filipino-Americans, and others); there are women's rights; there are LGBT rights (for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and non-gender-binary people); there are workers’ rights (for union laborers); there are disability rights (for the physically challenged, the blind, the deaf, the mute, the obese, arthrogrypotics, epileptics, CPers, autistics, Aspies, Downies, people with bipolar, people with borderline, schizophrenics, Touretters, obsessive-compulsives, ADDers, PTSDers, etc.); and then there are youth rights. The youth rights movement seeks to abolish or lower the age of legal restrictions, as well as change informal societal attitudes, that look down on people below a certain age (often 18, 21, or 25) as inferior and undeserving of even basic human rights.

We youth-rightsers aim to lower the voting age to 16. To lower the drinking age back to 19 or 18. To lower the age of majority and age of emancipation to 16. To protect students’ rights at the mandatory institution known as school. To abolish age-discriminatory store policies (”no more than two high school students in at one time”). To extend the rights of medical consent to all people old enough to wish for or object to treatment, regardless of age. To stop punishing parents for their minor children’s crimes. To abolish the draft. To ease restrictions on younger workers, and stop employers from viewing young employees as a liability. To allow people under 16 to get a job without adults bellowing, “Child labor!” To guarantee to every American the right to practice the religion she or he wants to and express her/his mind without her/his parents having her/him arrested for “insubordination”.

Age-discriminatory laws run a wide spectrum of enormity. At one end are age restrictions of things, such as drinking alcohol, smoking weed, or gambling, that the majority of Americans today believe are morally wrong for youth to do. Then come other status crimes like teen curfew laws. Then come laws like the laws in America preventing under18s from voting (even though Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Austria, the Crown Dependencies, Scotland, and Malta already allow 16-year-olds-to vote; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_age#Chronology_of_lowering_the_voting_age_to_16 ). Then come the oversteps of strict parents and Skinneresque faculty at K-12 schools, trying to prevent boys from wearing earrings, or censor the school paper because the principal doesn't like the angle of a particular student-written story or editorial. At the far end are stories of teens being abducted from their homes and taken into gulag camps simply because they have parents who don't like their nonconformity. Teens having their most beloved possessions destroyed or thrown away by their parents. Teens having to drive over state lines into states that will vaccinate them, lest they die before their eighteenth or even nineteenth birthdays because their parents refuse to let them have a vaccine . . . and also the less lucky teens who died already because a state legislature decided a parent's wishes trump a teen's concerns. 16-year-olds who have been seeking emancipation for a long time and then get kicked out to house by their parents (to their initial delight), only for the parents to then lie and report their child as a runaway, and having the mendacious parents rather than the truthful teen believed because of pervasive ageist attitudes and stereotypes, vitiating the minor's eligibility for emancipation. Gay teens undergoing the atrocious conversion therapy. Parents who take their 12-year-old sons to get circumcised against their sons' wishes. (And judging by their "Being a minor is only temporary!" argument, ageists seem to believe the boy's foreskin will magically regenerate on his eighteenth birthday.) If, when you hear the phrase "youth rights violations", you think simply of "You have to be 21 to drink", think again.

The title of this blog came from the R&B singer Aaliyah, who was born at the beginning of the Millennial Generation in January of 1979 and succumbed in a plane crash in 2001. In 1994, at the age of 15, Aaliyah released an album titled Age Ain't Nothing but a Number. Aaliyah lived her life to the fullest, not kowtowing to ageist laws and attitudes, and it was a good thing she did, because her life lasted only 22 years. I like to believe that if Aaliyah were to read my blog today, she would be proud of me for making the case for youth rights.

The seed of this Tumblr blog was planted several months ago, when a member of the NYRA Youth Rights Discussion Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/NYRAyouthrights/ told us about the Tumblr blog he had started on the topic of adult privilege (as analogous to male privilege, White privilege, straight privilege, etc.). Even though this blogger was an adult himself, he was swamped upon posting his first entry from people who wrongly assumed he was a kid who was upset because his parents wouldn't buy him an iPhone.

It is common among Gen-Xers (born 1964-1978) to be unaware that it's normal for Millennials (born 1979-2004) -- even the ones in our twenties or thirties, or who turned 40 this year -- to take many pro-YR positions, such as suffrage for 16-year-olds or restrictions on parental authority. These ignorant people assume that anyone starting a blog about ageism and ephebophobia (the fear of youth) must be "some kid", and that their concerns must be about positive rights (entitlement), rather than pressing negative rights.

Underlying this ignorance is a big myth surrounding generations that states every generation follows the same lifecycle as the Baby Boomers (born 1943-1957) did: they are innocent as children, then turn into wild, pot-smoking, socially liberal teen-agers who argue fiercely for youth rights, then go on being young and idealistic until they have children of their own and settle down . . . to then become "responsible", socially conservative adults who considered their younger selves to be irresponsible and misguided, raise their own kids strictly, start claiming "marijuana is illegal for a reason", and oppose youth rights. Or so the narrative goes.

But not every generation in Anglo-American history has followed this lifecycle. Take the Silent Generation (born 1925-1942), for instance. They began as Shirley Temples and Alfalfas amid the Great Depression and World War II, then spent their teens being a low-crime generation, despite all the Blackboard Jungle concern about juvenile delinquency and gangs. They married young. During the Postwar Era of 1950′s America, some of their members were beatniks, or invented rock-and-roll, or crusaded for the Civil Rights movement (after all, Chuck Berry and Martin Luther King, Jr. were Silents), but more often they kept their heads down, being grey-flannel-suit fathers who focused on their careers instead of activism, or barefoot-and-pregnant mothers who focused on being the perfect housewife. William Manchester wrote of fifties-era high school and college students: "Never had American youth been so withdrawn, cautious, unimaginative, indifferent, unadventurous -- and silent." They were indulgent parents, however, raising the Baby Boomers to the tune of Dr. Spock. Then they hit 40, and had their "midlife crisis", realizing they had wasted their youth being so un-rebellious. They started riding motorcycles and growing ponytails in middle age, and during the Vietnam Era, they generally raised their Baby Boomer and Joneser (born 1958-1963) kids permissively. It was a Silent, 1932-born Ted Kennedy, who proposed amending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to lower the voting age to from 21 to 18 at a national level, and argued in Oregon v. Mitchell that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment meant Congress could pass voting-age-related legislation at a federal level.

The "all generations are the same" myth notwithstanding, there is another, competing big myth prevalent today. This myth states that today's youth are "the worst" ever. Older Americans often indulge in saying that the Millennial Generation is the worst generation ever . . . or at least was until the Fifth World Generation (born 2005-today) came along. Memes posted by Boomers and Xers on the Internet say that when they were growing up, youth respected their elders, parents spanked their kids without fearing CPS, the spankings did no harm, and children freely "drank from the garden hose". Do they even remember the accusations during the sixties that teens had "no respect for their elders", "no respect for authority"? Older generations like to stereotype Millennials and Fifth Worlders as generations of Eloi, genetically attached to their smartphones, phones that are smarter than they are. Mark Bauerlein titled his book on Millennials The Dumbest Generation.

Are Millennials really the worst, dumbest generation ever? Nope. As sociologist Mike Males wrote in an LA Progressive article : "Imagine that a time-liberated version of vigilante George Zimmerman sees two youths walking through his neighborhood: black, hoodied Trayvon Martin of 2012, and a white teen from 1959 (say Bud Anderson from Father Knows Best). Based purely on statistics of race and era, which one should Zimmerman most fear of harboring criminal intent? Answer: He should fear (actually, not fear) them equally; each has about the same low odds of committing a crime." From 1982 to 2012, crime rates among African-American youth plummeted: property offenses declined by 51%, assault declined by 59%, robbery declined by 60%, rape declined by 66%, and even murder declined by 82%. And even though Donald Trump said in 2017 that "The murder rate in our country is the highest it's been in 47 years", the murder rate in America has in fact been halved since its 1991 peak. Far from the fabled heathens who have no morals because their parents didn't spank them, Millennial teens and twentysomethings, whatever their race, have too many moral compunctions to murder, rape, burglarize, or assault someone or set fire to someone's beloved belongings. Sadly, the stereotype that today's youth, especially boys and especially African-Americans, are "superpredators" persists, and has cops and security officers shooting and killing Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray. People often support their fears by using the thinnest of anecdotal evidence: “Look at Columbine, they were teens!”

And "kids have no respect for their elders"? So what. Just as Boomer youth were right in questioning their homophobic, pro-war elders from the Greatest Generation (born 1911-1924) during the Vietnam War, today's youth are not necessarily in the wrong for speaking out against a parent, uncle, teacher, principal, coach, or psychologist-they-were-sent-to-after-being-diagnosed-with-ODD when said elder tells them that boys shouldn't grow their hair long, or that it's "inappropriate" for two girls to kiss, or that only paranoid alarmists believe in climate change, or that George W. Bush must be followed, right or wrong, or that kids must never express disagreement with adults on even as subjective and trivial a matter as whether the weather today is nice.

And the accusation that Millennials and Fifth Worlders are stupid? Co-champions were declared at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2014, 2015, and 2016, for only the fourth, fifth, and sixth times since the bee's inception in 1925. Then came 2019, when the spellers were so good that Scripps ended up with an EIGHT-way tie! Word lists got increasingly harder; the winning words from 1935 to 1941 were "intelligible", "eczema", "promiscuous", "sanitarium", "canonical", "therapy", and "initials", while the winning words from 2007 to 2013 were "serrefine", "guerdon", "Laodicean", "stromuhr", "cymotrichous", "guetapens", and "knaidel".

Other ageists listen to media frenzies over teens eating Tide Pods and snorting condoms. The moral panic over these "trends", however, has turned out to be a tempest in a teapot. Reports of being poisoned by laundry detergent pods were actually down in 2018, at the same time the media hype over this alleged teen fad was spiking. The trend stories were trend pieces reporting on previously written trend pieces, with acts of detergentophagy less common than the media would have their unwitting dupes believe. As the Washington Post wrote: "There's just one small problem, however: Those headlines were wrong. The only thing viral about the condom challenge right now is the moral panic about the idea of teens doing the condom challenge. In a matter of days, word spread from a single local news report to a small army of local and national publications across the world, all warning about a challenge that, in 2018, barely exists." As a Snopes page discusses, claims to fake "teen challenges" have been around for a long time. Sorry, but real youth are not as dumb as urban folklore makes them out to be. The media is simply getting more ephebophobic.

A common misconception among ageists is that the reason youth rights activists who are older than about, say, 25 still support youth rights is that they are pedophiles. The fact of the matter is that most adult youth rights activists are still fighting for youth rights because they faced some instance of ageism, or a repeated barrage of instances of ageism, during their childhood and/or adolescence that scarred them for life.

I am a young adult, soon to be middle-aged. I had many run-ins with, and undeserved attempts at discipline and sociaLIESation from, my parents, teachers, school administrators, psychologists, psychiatrists, and random adults in the neighborhood as a child, teen, and college student. I was also the victim of nonconsensual medical treatment, as I'll open up about in later blog entries.

When I was in kindergarten, the class learned the song "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly", of which I was horrified. I starting scraping my nails down my throat and sticking them out of my mouth whenever I heard the words "spider" or "goat". Over the next two years, the "purging" ritual I was developing went down to my groin, and more words (and objects!) were added from ages 6 to 22. Other words were dropped over the years.

Little did I know at age 6 that I was developing what I call "logaesthesia", or word-tasting. When I hear or read one of those terrible words like "scxxt" or "whxxps", I get the sensation that I have swallowed the word. It's as if it's inside of me, slumbering in my intestines and attracting intestinal slime. To hear or read a word is to take in. I can never read an article without feeling as if I'm taking a drink of that article's waters, feasting on a repast of bread, beef stew and almond roca from the article. The same with listening to conversation. The words, further, have specific tastes when I eat them. When I hear the word "whxxps", for instance, I immediately taste whipped cream. The whipped cream is there right inside of me, its cold creaminess sitting in the front seat of my pants. Would you like you have whipped cream in your pants? That's what it feels like to me. The word "mxss" tastes like oatmeal. "Scxxt" tastes like cooked carrot, like the carrot in pot roast. "Jxggle" tastes like red hots -- the candies -- while "jingle" as well as "t-ngle" taste like those tiny spherical hard candies you put on cupcakes. "Xll xver the plxce" tastes like pasta-ey soup, a soup like Spaghetti-O's perhaps. And "ice xxxxx", of course, tastes like ice xxxxx.

And it's not only the words that make me purge that have a taste. Many of the innocuous words do too. For instance, "trump" tastes like sautéed mushrooms. "Doodle" tastes like macaroni. "Kentucky" tastes like fried chicken. With my logaesthesia, I am a person to whom words do more than convey semantic meanings. To you, "tale" is just a word for a story, but to me it conjures up the taste of lasagna, the pasta in lasagna with a light sauce on it. Even names can have tastes to them: Greg tastes like chocolate Easter egg, while the name Kevin tastes of ice xxxxx cone and Tiffany of lemon meringue pie.

To avoid coming in contact with these words, I don't watch television, nor do I go to the movies. I avoid coming into chatrooms as much as I can, too. Logaesthesia affects my life when it prevents me from doing certain things such as these. I also used to suffer while surfing the Internet and had to copy-and-paste a lot of posts from the Net into Notepad and use Find & Replace on them. Now I have a Greasemonkey filter that replaces the offending words.

The object triggers in logaesthesia also affect my quality of life. To avoid coming across things that make me purge, such as spiders and cobwebs around my parents' house, or plastic silverware in restaurants, or Winnie the Pooh and Spider-man garbage in stores, I have to close my eyes, or at the very least cup my hand in front of my eyes so I only see the aisles in front of me. It makes it hard for me to make my way around a store when I can't allow myself to look around, and sometimes I even bump into shelves. I can't push shopping carts or wheelchairs when we go into public places, unless we're going to someplace where everything is safe, such as See's Chocolates.

I often go into rooms alone so I have a place to purge where no one will see that I am purging. I used to purge in public, but eventually the rituals got so deep into my groin that I had to unbutton my pants and couldn't do it in public anymore. I am not prudish about other people seeing me, but I am afraid that other people might tell me my behavior is "inappropriate" or "socially unacceptable" if they see me purging, so I need to hide my purging to save my fragile soul.

Because of my condition, teachers and other adults who had convinced themselves that I was masturbating, or even who insisted it was "inappropriate" even if it wasn't really masturbating, because of society's taboo against what they called "putting your hands in your pants" (ooh, how I hated that phrase) have tried to socialize me, talked down to me, and then told me I was wrong for contradicting an adult when I defended myself. All the "socialization" I received in high school, all the being forced to do things, all the fascist comments that my behavior was "inappropriate" or "socially unacceptable", haunt me to this very day. I still think back weekly to run-ins with authoritarian teachers that happened during my school years, triggered by the logaesthesia or other, non-logaesthesia-related events, causing me to yell, bite myself, punch my skull, and punch my abdomen as if slicing open a watermelon. If I had only been given the chance to stop going to school, to live away from my parents, to move to Berkeley, I may have been able to get away from it all before too much damage was done.

It doesn't help me much either that I have never heard of another person having logaesthesia. OCD? Yes. Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia? I've met a few such people online. But the two in synergy? I've never even read of it. It attests to the extreme rarity of my condition that I was the one who had to coin a word for it. And I feel lonely. People with ADD, Asperger's, social anxiety, Alzheimer's, or conduct disorder are a dime a dozen, especially on the Internet. But me? I really know the meaning of being lonely. Even the Ehlers-Danlos "zebras" have found each other on the Net.

Let me tell you more about myself. I am writing a rock musical about Millennials, called The Bittersweet Generation, and had an alternative band called Red Cilantro during my late teens and early twenties. I have a collection of music on my iPod that includes such artists as Nirvana, Third Eye Blind, Smash Mouth, Fastball, the Beatles, Pink, Sia, The Naked and Famous, Florence + the Machine, Gotye, Enya, the Cranberries, the Sundays, Of Monsters and Men, Shaggy, KT Tunstall, Avril Lavigne, Hole, Michelle Branch, Lady Gaga, M83, Muse, Ingrid Michaelson, Bastille, Depeche Mode, the Weeknd, and Xymox, and listen to my headphones when I am out and about to avoid hearing purge words. I do my hair like Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, and always wear a turtleneck, khakis and sunglasses. I love trying new foods and eating old favorites such as lasagna, biscotti, sushi, Chinese food, Taco Bell, spice drops, ravioli, manicotti, rice crackers, cranberry juice, challah, suman antala, dolmas, quiche, pomegranate juice, Brussels sprouts, banh mis, enchiladas, rambutans and piroshkis. When one of my friends was diagnosed with cancer, I tried to get everyone we knew to pray for her. I like spending time with my friends, both male and female, whom I love to a degree more typical of friendships between two females than of male-male or male-female friendships.

Another abnormality I suffer is a sensation I call That Feeling. I will be in the middle of an activity, or just lying down, when all of a sudden I feel as if spiders are going to fall down from the ceiling onto me. I begin constantly looking for spiders on the ceiling, and checking my own hands for specks of dead spider that may have gotten on my hands from handling objects -- again and again. I feel as if my eyes are going to cross. It feels as if I am using 110% of my brain. I notice every object and sound around me equally, and have a hard time telling my surroundings from my own thoughts. My eyes can't make sense out of the pictures I see online. This has been happening to me since 2009. I'll call my caretaker and tell him, "I've got That Feeling again", and he'll know what I mean.

I am cismale, bisexual, Jewish, deist, a beatnik, ENFP, 4w3sx, Virgo, Californian, anarcho-syndicalist, bearded, anosmic, and childfree, with dark brown hair and hazel eyes. I was born sunny-side-up with a single umbilical artery. On Simon Baron Cohen's tests, I got an empathizing quotient of 32, a systemizing quotient of 17, and an AQ of 24.

I've participated in, and read, many debates on the voting age, the drinking age, parental authority, school dress codes, medical consent, the youth rights movement as a whole, or just the whole concept of taking kids seriously -- I've seen them on Internet fora, on the comments sections of news websites, and in the emails I've received. And every place youth rights issues have been debated online, I've seen certain very shoddy and fallacious arguments against youth rights regurgigated again and again. If you're active in the youth rights movement, or even if you just read the comments sections at the Washington Post, you've probably heard them all: "Being a minor is only temporary", "You can wait", "16-year-olds will vote like their parents", "Young people think they're immortal", "I supported youth rights when I was younger but then outgrew that position", "You'll change your mind when you're older", "The only adults who still support youth rights are pedophiles", "If 16-year-olds are deemed incapable of signing a contract, how can they be mature enough to vote?" (the de jure fallacy), "My house, my rules", "Emancipation will solve everything", "Kids aren't oppressed -- they don't have to pay bills!", "Teens were eating Tide Pods a week ago", statements beginning "Society has decided . . .", and the red herring question "Bah, what about child labor?" Many of the posts in this blog will be centered around focusing on a certain argument and refuting it.

Then there are the scientific claims, published even by respected scientists, that claims teens have immature, underdeveloped, etc. brains, which first became trendy during the nineties. In a 2007 Scientific American article titled "The Myth of the Teen Brain", psychologist Robert Epstein exposes this as junk science. As Epstein points out, the studies that examine adolescent brains, teen-age pathologies, and teen angst do not distinguish cause from effect. Teen-age ills are caused by the restrictions on youth and segregation of teens from adults that got started in the early twentieth century. Teens in preindustrial societies do not show high rates of crime, and spend most of their time with adults. They do not feel teen angst. When Western-style schooling and television are brought to these societies, the adolescent members of these now Westernized societies begin to exhibit delinquency and teen angst. The Inuit living on Victoria Island, Canada had no problem with juvenile delinquency until their community was Westernized in the eighties, and by 1988 they had established their first permanent police department now that the worms had escaped from the can. Epstein also points out that brain imaging studies show only a correlation between age and brain anatomy, not a causal relationship. While the orthodoxy in the 1970's was that the brain reached its adult state at 18, and in the 1990's the line changed to "The brain isn't fully developed until 25", research in the 2010's now reveals that a person's brain in fact continues to develop and change for her/his whole life.

It's enlightening to see the kind of junk science that was used in its own time against women's suffrage, as in this recent article in the Atlantic. Note that William P. Sedgwick, an outspoken opponent of women's suffrage who claimed voting would be bad for women's brains, was a reputable professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

But all of that will be delved into in more detail in my blog entries in the weeks, months, and years to come. I've been writing about youth rights and ageism for more than two decades, and I do believe it is high time I had a blog on it. I have a moral philosophy I call bixochromatism (which in a nutshell states that the freedom to be in control of one's own decisions is more important than making what people tell you is a "good" or "wise" decision), which I will discuss in future posts. In the meantime, you can read my essay, 10 Reasons to Support the Youth Rights Movement, at http://khemehekis.angelfire.com/10reasons.htm , or even browse the website of the National Youth Rights Association (NYRA) at https://www.youthrights.org/

In solidarity,

Savegraduation

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little-silly-bear · 3 years

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for the animal asks- mouse!! 🤎🐁

Hi!!! Thank you so much for the question!! Also I have 4 rats so it’s funny that you chose that animal in particular 😂

Mouse: Do you squeak or make any little noises when you’re feeling small?

Yes! I’m very vocal during my regression also feeling small help me feel less ashamed of my autism so I tend to express more autistic traits! ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶

I do have a lot of echolalia, stimming, humming and jumping!! ( ू•⌄• ू )✧

I love this aspect of my regression because it makes me feel so safe and valid!! ପ(๑•̀ᴗ-♡ॢ)⋆*✩

#agere #sfw agere #ageregression #age regression #agere community #agere ask #agere asks #aspie agere

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astrologicalz · 3 years

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Everyone laughs but quite often in life I relate to Sheldon Cooper..

#personal #actuallyautistic #autism #bigbang #bigbangtheory #auti #aspie #agere #anxiety #anxious #asd #adhd

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snailonasunflower · 5 years

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Soo excited!~ 😸😸

Tomorrow I get to hang out with someone I've thoroughly enjoyed for well over two years one-on-one for the first time~ they've been a good friend of partner's for just under a decade and I've only gotten to see them at our friend gatherings and they've always been such a sweetheart♡

They're an autistic enby like myself and tmrw we're going to the city to pick up their estrogen since they wanted me to accompany them, and then we can do whatever we want after (which works well for me since I also need to pick up my meds later on when I visit my mom afterwards and won't be as far as I usually am at least from my current apartment). I'm just always the worst at figuring out what to do with anyone, especially one-on-one. 😅😩

Aagdhwks anyway I'm just real happy I get to spend time with a trusted aspie and trans friend, I've been desperately needing that very specific kind of support in recent months... also crossing my fingers hoping I'll be able to -not- cancel on them again since I still feel awful about that the first time we tried getting together a month ago. ;-; Wish me luck on my mental and physical state not failing me aaaa

#nonbinary #enby things #enby #aspie things #aspie #agere blog #cglre blog #zt #bb babbles

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