Gap-tooth - 🧶

"Not everything is about your autism."

Actually it is. My autism effects:

How I see the world, including light sensitivity

How I interact with the world, including difficulties with social interaction, speech difficulties and processing disorders

How I feel the world around me, including hyposensitivity or hypersensitivity to temperature, pain, or stimuli as well as proprioception which can make it difficult for me to physically navigate the world

How I feel my body, including interoception which can lead to missed meals, dehydration, and even urinary urgency (which is a problem just by itself) because I don't notice the signals my body gives

How I relate to those around me, due to my alexithymia, so often I feel nothing or can not work through the bodily sensations that indicate emotions.

How I cope with the world, including needing to stim, escape noises others may not hear, or requiring accommodations to help me survive an "average" day

How I rest after a normal day, including delayed sleep onset, reduced melatonin and increased cortisol, making getting to sleep a 2 hour long endeavour and staying asleep a task unto itself

So yes.

This is all about my autism.

I’ve printed this out before but that big myth of how the Harry Potter books got turned down by 12 different publishers doesn’t sound that rediculous once you learn literally anything about how the publishing world or actually any other creative field works

Bad dragon plush at my thrift store surprised a butt hole is all it had

fuck you

Some of Bobs Burgers Halloween costumes through the years

my astigmatism lets me see beautiful angels before i drive into oncoming traffic

A really fun one, the second year that the same book club has commissioned a print of their reads!

Links

Getting into the habit of drawing again with a little comic about a customer at an old job of mine

only a few million years late :/