**I have severe rejection sensitivity dysphoria so please be nice.** Pronouns: ask((Triggers: choking, yelling, general confrontation/conflict. Also I’m touch repulsed so I’m sometimes triggered by mentions of touching. ))dyslexia, adhd, dyscalculia, anxiety, S.A.D., A.M.P.S., conversion disorder, hyper mobile spectrum disorder, autonomic dysfunction, IBS-CThis blog is supposed to be a bbc Merlin blog, but it morphed into including memes as well as disability posts
[ID/ a flag with seven stripes. in order the stripes are a thin coral stripe, a thicker light coral stripe, a really light coral stripe of the same thickness, a thin white-toned coral stripe, a thick powder blue stripe, a baby blue stripe of the same thickness, and lastly a thin light blue stripe. /END ID]
[ID: A flag with seven horizontal stripes, the middle is twice the width of the others. The colors are darker at the edges and lighter moving towards the middle. The colors are, from top to bottom, dark purple, red-violet, soft orange salmon, peach, soft orange salmon, red-violet, and dark purple. END ID]
Loverpresentic: A gender that presents itself in a lover way/as a lover. Can be used as descriptor for other terms
The colors are inspired by ones in other love(r)/-related genders
What do you think of autism memes like people referring to it as “the ‘tism” or the “autism creature”?
Personally I dislike them because I feel they are infantalizing me or trying to make me sound cute and uwu when I’m not.
A lot of level 1 autistics seem to like the memes like this but I haven’t really seen any perspectives on them from level 2 or 3 autistics (which I think you said you are? Unless I’m confusing my blogs again) hence this question
Hi anon! Honestly, I really dislike it sometimes. If the person is joking around then sure, I can joke around about it too! But I feel like some people have been using “tism” and the autism creature to downplay autism, or make it fun and quirky.
I feel like as someone who is heavily disabled by their autism, it’s hard to see people constantly making a joke about their autism. Yes, I can and do joke about my own autism. But really not in the same way a lot of high masking low support needs people do.
It feels…infantilizing at times. To constantly have my autism and other peoples autism downplayed and turned into something that is fun and quirky and “cute” is demeaning, and stressful. I want people to realize that no, autism isn’t all fun. It isn’t quirky. It isn’t cute. My autism is violent, my autism is gross, my autism isn’t fun. It disables me. It makes it so I don’t shower for weeks at a time. It makes it so I have violent meltdowns. It makes it so that I elope. I want more people to realize that.
Do I think the autism creature is cool and cute and a good mascot? Absolutely. Do I think people could handle it better? Also absolutely. Most of the people that I see that turn autism into a cute and quirky thing are young teenagers that are newly diagnosed or are self diagnosed. And that’s fine! They haven’t yet experienced life. They’re still figuring things out. I understand that.
Sorry for this being such a late response! I know this has been sitting in my inbox for awhile. Also, I’m not level 2 or 3, I’m medium support needs and wasn’t diagnosed with a level.
I hope this helps answer your question and I hope you have a lovely day!
"unfortunately I like men" What do you mean unfortunately?? Have you seen men?! I'm lucky to like men!! I love that I love men!! There's so much fortune to be had in being attracted to men!!
It is ableist to doubt someone’s allosexuality /alloromantism simply because they are disabled.
It is infantilizing to not take us seriously with we clearly state who we are and just deside you somehow know better. We are not stupid.
It is a stereotype that we are all aroace. That we are incapable of understanding or feeling romantic or sexual feelings. Or acting apon them. I even heard a horror story where someone was forcably wheeled out of health class when sex Ed started.
And this goes for everyone. The two people who have done this were both disabled and asexual /aromantic . I was not questioning my sexuality or romantic orientation, I simply mentioned I was allo, disbaled, and couldn’t date or have sex because of it. “Are you suuure you’re not aromantic?” It’s just awful.
a gender related to picking dandelions and lying in the sun.
Ordered by anon, term and flag made by us.
[Image ID: the first image is of a flag with seven stripes, the first three stripes a gradient of pale yellow to slightly darker yellow, the last four stripes a gradient of pale green to green. The second image is of the flag with white spots on the bottom four stripes, meant to symbolize dandelions. End image ID]