Hello, Dear Friends 🇵🇸

please know that being disabled does not make you incapable of being ableist .

have faced ableism from other disabled people . who thought they know more about my experience with my disabilities than I do . or who thought that me being disabled is some how " threatening " them being disabled too , as if can not both be disabled .

have had other disabled people make rude comments about my disabilities . when I said that what they said was ableist , they question me , say " but I disabled " .

yes , you also disabled , but can still be ableist / say ableist things .

you not immune to say rude things / make mistake . that is ok . you just need admit when you make mistake or say rude things or be ableist . accept it happen some time and learn from it . otherwise , still being ableist .

ignoring disabled people when they tell you being ableist is being more ableist . listen to disabled people , including when you are disabled too .

if you're hitting a wall with your tumblr donation post, you can try these subreddits out

these subreddits exist for the sole purpose of helping people, so you may have better luck there

NOTE: some of these subreddits require you to be an active member of reddit with post/comment karma for you to be able to seek help in them - you can try seeking help with an empty account but you may not have much luck.

r/Assistance

r/RandomActsOfPetFood

r/RandomKindness

r/Charity

r/care

r/borrow

r/gofundme

i will try to keep this updated - feel free to reblog/reply/etc with any other resources you can think of and i'll add them to this post

** up to date as of 5th july 2023 **

When you're both you get a double whammy

Me, wandering around on campus late at night: Spood…. Spood… Spooder… I’m not drunk or high, I’m just thinking about arthropods….

@lane-thepencilthing I hope you voted here

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A blog for obsessing over autistic special interests

Oakie dokie (lol), the poll closes at 4pm today! Please vote for this acorn, I am unreasonably invested. I will post a piece of my art for e

Because here is an art

woodwatcher

I made a little animation

[Image description from alt text: An animated gif of someone with a white mask with antlers and a black cloak unfolding one black wing, then folding it back up. The background is a misty forest. End ID.]

Thank you @lane-thepencilthing for voting for Oakie in the SUNY Mascot Madness tournament (link). So maybe I could’ve posted these separately but this screwball nonsense all kinda goes together. This is a silly Hollow Knight modern/gijinka AU in which the characters are trying and failing to be normal people in the normal town of Hallownest. Chaotic ideas under the cut- it’s mostly just silly.

Hollie is a Gifted Kid who just wants to be “good” and ends up being the one who mostly takes care of their little siblings because their parents are absolutely slacking off on that. They’re very tall and stand out in a crowd, but they’re shy and quiet and don’t want to stand out and are always hunched over. Also, everyone in the Pale family is autistic. When I tried to make these characters act normal they all gave off extremely neurodivergent energy XD

Hornet is a tween who is Not Like Other Girls and likes spiders and will probably bite. Herrah is basically a Crazy Cat Lady, except she has a bunch of pet spiders. This combined with the fact that she’s crazy strong and kinda intimidating anyway means most people avoid her. If you say anything bad about her mom, Hornet will come after you. Ghost, predictably, is a little chaos child. They lose speech/can’t always speak and have both autism and ADHD. Grimm is kinda frenemies with PK, but Ghost and Grimm Jr. are the best of friends. They get into trouble together often. Grimm will often just drop his child off at PK’s house unexpectedly, and Ghost will get all excited about the surprise sleepover, and PK will be like “Grimm you can’t just do this” and Grimm will be like “Watch me.” The one good parent in this is the crazy woman whose house is full of spiders.

Ok, if anyone is looking for a Fire Emblem Awakening longfic… I just read this work by jonagold on AO3 and enjoyed it so, so much. It explores the relationship between the future children and their present selves after the game’s end, particularly how the young Lucina grows up in a time of peace with the her from an alternate future in her life…. It reads like a coming-of-age novel and for me, it was a treat to find.

Aww! What cute pigeons!

Could you do the ADHD diagnosis poll but with autism?

yis indeed, I wont queue it so they can go out into the wild together

once again, not at all disparaging self dx this is just curiosity on numbers and where people learn about it

(pls reblog for sample size etc)

follow for more occasional useless polls :)