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queering the Overemotional Girl Autism/Unfeeling Boy Autism binary by feeling very little affective empathy for anything besides cats and stuffed animals (and my boyfriend but the joke would be funnier if i didn't include him)

i prefer to call myself an autist for three reasons, one of them being that it neatly sidesteps the handwringing over "person with autism" vs "autistic person", the second of which is that i learned that it was originally a neutral (well as neutral as any medical term for autism) descriptor and i kind of want to bring that back. fuck you, the word "autism" is not inherently an insult unless you make it so.

the third reason is that- so there's this really old post i made about how i kind of think that autism (diagnosis) and autism (insult) are two groups that overlap a lot but are not the same thing, and when it comes to people who are autistic (insult) but not autistic (diagnosis) and people who are autistic (diagonsis) but not autistic (insult), i relate much more to the former than the latter, and "autist"-as-insult is frequently used to describe those people as opposed to the autism-only-as-diagnosis people and i wish to signify this affiliation.

Wish I had a sign flash up behind me whenever my speech problems are acting up that says [I am not doing this to piss you off, I am just as annoyed by this as you are.]

A lot of my favorite Accidental Autists can be summed up with "this creator wanted to make this character Weird", the Mr Darcy Effect, and Akira's obsession with writing about geniuses disconnected from humanity.

However, I still have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on with Homare.

r/otomegames is doing this thing where someone posts their favorite otome guys and people try to describe their "type"

anyway i fucking LOVE pattern-matching so i'm having a great time with this

an incomplete list of the most autistic things in the world:

> girls und panzer

> the visual novel database

> the rationalist movement

> all of those mobile games that are about objects of great historical import being personified as cute anime people

EDIT: > tvtropes, holy shit i can't believe that i forgot tvtropes

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FINALLY managed to get to Inazuma and i'm just so happy about how PURPLE everything is like yes purple purple purple everything this makes me supremely happy

didn't think the given drama could do anything different or new before they pulled out the line "People always tell me that I look like I'm not thinking about anything. And sometimes... I think they might be right", which punched me in the face and made me scream and cry like fucking... god.

"All neurodivergencies are invisible disabilities" is kind of an oversimplification, IMO. Just speaking from experience, while my position on the visible/invisible disability spectrum (which is a topic for another day) fluctuates, there have definitely been scenarios where I'm walking around with big, bulky, noise-canceling headphones, sunglasses indoors, while carrying a stuffed animal.

Someone who looks at me might not go "Oh, they're autistic", but they will notice that Something's Up, and this definitely carries over to the way I get treated by other people.

just a pro-tip for all the doctors out there- if your (adult) patient brings a stuffed animal to your appointment, please do not forget that they are not a literal child. if this proves hard for you, you can make it easier by simply not referencing the stuffed animal if an opportunity provides itself.

sincerely, M