I love that folks are being more accepting of autism, but I don't love that autism is being sanitized into a quirk.
There's a cute and acceptable form of autism on social media, and I don't see any indication that folks are remotely ready for discussing the rest of it, which contains all the uncomfortable things that impede a person's everyday life, require support, and make acceptance almost impossible—where the hygiene struggles, inappropriate social behaviors, involuntary movements and outbursts, meltdowns, and emotional dependence issues live. And the cuter and more sanitized the "good" autism gets, the more unacceptable the "bad" autism becomes.
YOU WENT TO REN FAIR AS ARTHUR JESTER!???? YOU LIVING MY DREAM IM SO HAPPY WHAT
Yes!!!! I did! I believe I sent these to your fanart years and years ago, but I still have the costume, even if I think it’s a little small for me now! There’s some additional pictures here that I don’t think I sent then either!
My mother taught me how to use a sewing machine for this project! I also wasn’t smiling much for that photoshoot, but you better believe I was grinning—and totally silent—for the whole renfair! It was incredible, people thought I was part of the cast, I had a brief rivalry with another jester and a whimsical friendship with a trio of fairies, all without a single word spoken. Honestly I should do it again, get a shirt and pants that are in my size and reuse the skirt and hat and wings.
(SOUND IS CRUCIAL) this video is has murdered me dead the music the editing the way information is slowly revealed about the two of them the plot twist the breaking bad images. WILLIAM WILLIAM WILLIAM. all over minecraft parkour someone help im seizing