There’s all these guides to writing autistic characters, but where’s our guide to writing neurotypical characters? Especially in first person.
Like do y’all just… instinctively know what to say during small talk? What’s the secret code you use all the time? Is your brain really just quiet sometimes? How much do you know about your favourite thing? What does fabric feel like on your skin? Why do you like loud environments like clubs? How long can you work on something you enjoy before you need a break?
[Images description: Twelve pictures of Star Trek actors. The phrase "thank you for being both amazing actors and amazing people" is written across most of the images one word at a time, except for the two images in the middle. The middle images are of William Shatner, reading "not you!" and Robert Beltran, reading "or you for that matter". The actors in the other images are George Takei, René Auberjonois, DeForest Kelley, Gates McFadden, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Patrick Stewart, Siddig El Fadil (aka Alexander Siddig), Nichelle Nichols and Leonard Nimoy. End image description.]
Non exhaustive list of course. Many more such cases, in fact feel free to add
You don’t need one necessarily but it is a thing usually done in primary schools when we learn handwriting/cursive!
It’s not a legal document or anything, just a laminated piece of paper your teacher gives you when you meet a certain point of approval – and is the marker that shows you are allowed to graduate from using pencils only in your notebooks to being allowed to use pens
it’s pretty standard to my knowledge that you’ll get them throughout and around grade 4 (9-10 yrs old) so for kids who got them earlier in the year it was like a status symbol but was also incentive to get your handwriting perfect (match the shape and guide exactly with no personality)
I am still very salty that I never got mine, especially when I think I was the only person in my whole year level who didn’t, and by grade 5 they just expected us to write with pen because the license didn’t actually matter then – including a specific incident where my friend got hers despite her f’s being wrong and me not getting mine that same day for the reason being that my f’s were wrong (in the exact same way)
Today marks one year since was forcefully admitted to the psychiatric hospital after a domestically abusive relationship sent me into a manic episode. I was delusional, I was addicted to sh, my friends were scared of me, and the only thing I wanted was for my abuser to come back and keep hurting me, because (as I frequently said at the time), I would rather have him hit me than not touch me at all.
I survived a suicide attempt, and over a year of physical and emotional abuse. I lost more friends than I can count. I will never be the same person I was before, but I am still here. I'm supposed to be here.
my gender is like I’m not not a girl but if you call me one I’ll probably cry and I’m not a man but i will call myself one and if you call me one I’ll be happy