“You’re autistic” so is Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Charles Darwin, Steve Jobs, Amadeus Mozart, Alfred Kinsey, the list goes on. I’m not sure why y’all think AUTISM=UNINTELLIGENT. No not ALL autistic ppl are geniuses but let’s stop thinking autism means stupid.

🏳️‍🌈 Izzy Rizinti Related to this: how often they feel the need to frantically excuse other cis people’s transphobia because “so and so is trying, you know it’s so hard” or “she didn’t know and now she’s so embarrassed that you corrected her” like okay?? Imagine how hard it was for ME

If you're #actuallyAutistic and would be interested in participating in a sort of Autistic analog to a Gay Club, but online and with lots of rules and scripts, please fill out! I'm realizing that we need adult social spaces with Autistic norms to thrive. coda.io/form/Autspace-…

People calling “drag queen story hours” grooming really have no idea what happens at events like this or what drag is about.

David Tennant watching the credits for The Parting of the Ways and seeing them credit him as Doctor Who:

Do you understand how traumatic it is to have every relationship in your life predicated on your capacity to perform an identity that isn’t you? What even IS a social life? What even IS coregulation? We don’t get these. And then we are ostracized for it.

Disney could've had Black/POC influencers, journalists, and creatives out here promoting the hell out of this film, instead they invested in the "we tried" gaslight of cinema. I hope this film becomes a cult classic when it hits streaming. I hope it does better than Frozen.

And of course, you can always get #TheUnbroken or pre-order #TheFaithless which has an increased amount of sword lesbians from book 1. 😌

On a related topic, @marshallmaresca's Maradaine books OUGHT to sell a gazillion copies, so if you haven't read them, you should check them out.

Thinking about everyone’s obsession with Wednesday bc of her quirks, bluntness, brutal honesty, weirdness, interests, expressions, lack of social cues etc as if this isn’t the exact thing autistic people are bullied for

It’s almost like People only accept autistic traits When it’s strictly for fictional entertainment purposes

Humans do not exist to perform a function.

My mind may not be but

Taskmaster putting full episodes on YouTube was one of the best streaming decisions of the century

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