Adaine is such a fascinating character to me because she's such a compelling combination of having debilitating, choking panic and anxiety while also being utterly, stubbornly argumentative and combative with absolutely everyone she meets and i love her for it

non-comprehensive haruhi autism creature comp

i mean just look at him she's literally

Touchy

with the focus on the revolving door again in ep 16, i just want to say a little smth abt the door as an autistic person myself.

i know some ppl are frustrated with wyw's difficulty in using the door, saying it infantilizes her and that "she's a 27 year old lawyer, she's seen a revolving door before, she knows how they work." but the thing is, it's not abt her being familiar with revolving doors at all. at least not in the way you think. it's not "oh look at this lady, she doesn't understand this door bc she's autistic." it's a sensory issue.

autism affects our senses and the way we process them. what many allistics don’t understand about autism is that we’re not just overly sensitive to sounds and bright lights. we can be underly (is that a word??) sensitive to stimulus as well and have a hard time controlling our senses. this includes all seven senses. that right, seven. there’s the five you know, but also two you probably don’t: the vestibular sense and proprioception. these two have to do with body awareness, balance, and spatial orientation. that’s why many of us walk “weirdly” (if i ever catch you saying someone walks weirdly i am coming into your house and punching you in the face) or are clumsy. we have issues with our bodies in relation to the world around us and often have a hard time balancing. i walk into walls all the time and miscalculate and walk into doorways instead of through them. 

so it’s not that wyw doesn’t understand the social concept of a revolving door, but that they’re difficult to navigate through due to her vestibular and proprioceptive sensory issues. i myself have a hard time with revolving doors! so pls no more “this makes her look dumb” or “this is so unrealistic”. if wyw is bad representation and is stupid for having problems with a revolving door, then i’m an unrealistically stupid autistic that walks into walls.

thinking about how minthara says that she was never able to enjoy the taste of food for fear of poisoning, or the company or friends or lovers because they might be hiding knives behind their smiles, and then immediately follows it up with saying she was happy because she knew her place in the world and im just like. i dont think you were happy babe i think you're autistic and were used to a routine!!

at some point shes gonna be cuddling with tav and think i dont think ive been this happy since... oh wow. ive never been happy. bad!

To me personally, Sara from Young Royals is the best autistic representation I have seen. Because is doesn't feel like she was made to be representation.

Young Royals, especially the first season, felt like a chain reaction going off, like every event impacted and caused the next. I remember watching it the first time confused about why they didn't give different subplots to the other characters, and instead kept using the same 3/4, but by the end you realise it's because the chaices and actions made by the same 3/4 impacted everything else, and that is any one thing didn't happen, everything would have been OK.

Sara's autism and ADHD are a direct part of this chain reaction over and over again.

It's her autism that allows her and Simon to go to the school (not looking up how to spell it again, you know the name) in the first place. Simon agrees to get August drink for the party because he wants Sara ti make friends, which she struggles woth because of her autism. August goes to Sara first about buying the ADHD meds because SHE HAS ADHD! And when she gets confused why, because she doesn't understand why he would do something illegal (simplified a bit there), that is when Simon steps in.

There are definite more examples that I can't remember right now (probably/especially fro. Season 2) but Sara's autism/ADHD are so interconnected with the plot it doesn't feel like representation, it feels authentic.

And then there's the fact that she isn't necessarily a good person, which I could make a whole other point on about infantalisation, and that really, in canon, she doesn't do anything worse than any other character (bar Felice (she has done nothing wrong ever) and August (who has done nothing right ever)

sarah jane and luke are so lovely because its just an autistic mom adopting this autistic kid and hes like "mom how do i socialize" and shes like "fuck if i know"

I love the group of autistics in p3:

Akihiko, Makoto, Aigis and Yukari

there is not two ends of the autism spectrum, because that’s not what the spectrum is.

but if there was two ends, it’d mary and the captain

2023 reads / storygraph

Something More

YA contemporary about a Palestinian-Canadian girl starting high school, navigating new crushes and accepting her recent autism diagnosis

I genuinely love the way Billie holds herself with my whole heart; more characters need to start doing it like her <3

Art therapy is so fun because today I just drew pathologic fanart, and my therapist was like, "Awesome, so tell me about it"

this may sound rude or weird but there is no combination worse in this world than a neurodivergent person who is sensitive to sounds (me) and a neurodivergent person who never shuts up even if they were told so multiple times (my classmate who is telling us a story about a guy falling from an escalator even though we're in the middle of an exam)

i think i do want amy and rouge to be in the next sonic movie, especially if its gonna be an sa2 adaptation, but i cant help but worry that if they try to introduce shadow AND rouge AND amy in the same movie then at least one of those characters (most likely amy. tbh.) isnt gonna get the amount of screentime and development that they deserve. especially considering in the game timeline amy was introduced much earlier and by sa2 was already an established character while rouge and shadow were the newcomers. and then theres also the human characters who are gonna be making the cast a lot bigger than it was in the game so more people to divide the screentime among. like what if amy is in sonic 3 and she gets like 5 minutes of screentime and her big moment with shadow is given to another character again

autism is when 🐰

I'm very weary of narratives and dynamics that paint people of color as like bullies, or intolerant/bigoted, or anything of the sort against white characters cause it's not that we're infallible either within specific communities or as a collective but like...idk like I feel like we're usually in these roles more often than not (its ESP Black women and girls, and Dark skin women and girls even moreso) like, esp when shows tout themselves as progressive cause knowing how Fandoms roll esp in regards to bleeding into actors off screen I just know there are people like going the hell in, because even when they're not bad people at all or just like a fleshed out human beings let them do one thing wrong, or do something fans don't like, people never shut the fuck up about it (look at Meredith and Amelia from Grey's vs Maggie and Bailey, esp in like the second half of the Grey's run) meanwhile white characters can never do anything wrong ever even when they're very much in the wrong which hmmm does that not also sound like real life?